Why the Wii 2’s rumoured touchscreen controller makes perfect sense
Chris Kohler of Wired.com has written a wonderful editorial on why it makes perfect sense for Nintendo’s next home console to have a touchscreen controller. It touches on Nintendo’s past attempts to add extra screens beyond the TV to the living room, and presents several likely reasons for why the Wii’s wireless connectivity to the […]
Project Café to ‘offer a new way of playing games within the home’
Iwata seems to be warming up for tonight’s investor relations meeting. At a conference earlier today, he assured us that the Wii’s successor will ‘offer a new way of playing games within the home.’ The full quote is as follows: As for the details of exactly what it will be, we have decided that it […]
Getting ready for Nintendo’s investor relations meeting
A short guide to what we can expect to hear from Nintendo’s investor relations meeting tomorrow, and how you can follow it.
Yet another image of Project Café leaks out – this one’s of the back
Wow, so much for a set of images that everyone is convinced are fake. I just found a picture of the back of that console, which shows us where everything would plug in. There appears to be an antenna, two USB ports (or are they HDMI?), and some other attachment point that I can’t really […]
Official Nintendo document confirms 2012 Wii successor launch & playable E3 showing
An official document from Nintendo’s investor relations site confirms that the Wii’s successor will be revealed in playable form at E3 2011, followed by a 2012 launch.
Wario World turns up two more Project Café images
Nintendo’s servers must be getting hit with a whole ton of 404’s right now as people madly try all kinds of combinations in their attempts to squeeze more and more images out of Wario World. These two are the latest to be found. The two images are identical, with the exception of one having a […]
Third set of ‘Project Café’ pictures leaks out
Two more alleged pictures of the Wii 2 have leaked out. They look exactly like the console that was pictured in the two earlier leaks. I’m now 99% sure these are fake, because the console in this particular set has a light turned on, but isn’t plugged in anywhere (and home consoles aren’t exactly battery-powered). […]
Further confirmation of the Project Café codename
After that earlier find on Wario World, Manukineko from GoNintendo dug up the above image that more or less confirms that Project Café is the real codename of the Wii’s successor. It can be found at: https://www.warioworld.com/images/cafe/cafe_header.jpg So I guess that’s it. Café really must be the new console’s codename, unless someone at Nintendo decided to […]
Could ‘Project Café’ be the Wii 2’s real codename?
A curious anomaly on Wario World suggests that Project Café may actually really be the Wii successor’s codename.
Pre-order the Wii 2 today…for over $800!
The Swedish retailer Webhallen.com has put up a listing for the Wii 2, allowing you to pre-order it for the princely price of 4995 Swedish kronor. In more common currencies, that comes out to a whopping $817.05 US dollars, $779.47 Canadian dollars, or €561.63 Euros. Webhallen makes it clear that “Wii 2” is only a […]
