The next generation of gaming is coming

[Canas Renvall]

This is Nintendo listening to the gripes of people.

You have to remember. Like Capcom, Nintendo's in it for the money, which many people don't seem to realize. However, Nintendo knows exactly how to hook people. First it was with motion control. "Hahahaha, lawl, really? Lame!" they screamed.

Changing from the Revolution to the Wii. "[phallic pun]", they cried.

Look at it now.

I assure you, Nintendo will have something more substantial than "running 1080p". Nintendo always has an ace up their sleeve, so rest assured people: Ninty's in it to win it again. I loved the Wii, and I can't wait to see what's up with the next generation.

[aris13]

According to CVG the new nintendo console will have HD Touch Screen Controller.

Source

[Canas Renvall]

^ See what I mean? They're probably gonna blur the line between the Wii and the DS/3DS line. I predict even more console-handheld compatibility. We saw it a little with the Wii and DS, and the PS3 and PSP, but I think Nintendo will do something like that with the "Wii 2" and the 3DS. At least I hope so, it would be pretty cool.

[GuardhouseMusic]

It's far and away only because I got my PS3 during the fall of 09, but I'm seriously not looking forward to/ready for a new generation of consoles. I wish the current ones would last longer. God forbid, we get stuck in a loop of releasing Final Fantasy games just to flex the consoles' graphical biceps.

[Humor Tumor]

The question I have is backwards compatability, and will the new console still allow the input of motion control.

[Stu]

Funny.

Last night it was a HD console. Then there was news it would be more powerful than PS3 or 360. Then there was bluray added to it. Now there's a touch screen controller. Tomorrow the disc drive will double up as a toaster. By the end of the month we'll be looking at something that is so rumoured to be feature packed that we'll forget it's a games console!

[Branden_Lucero]

haha. this is gonna suck ass for every person who took advantage of the Virtual Console and WiiWare with their dumbass no-transfer policy. while Sony and Microsoft will allow for older users to keep their accounts onto the newer consoles, Nintendo will do something entirely stupid and make everyone buy everything all over again.

[Jill4EverSTARS]

It says in the IGN that it is backwards compatible with Wii games which almost if not definitely insures the use of motion controls and I think a new generation would be good if done right it'll be the end of (insert name of color ) lights of stupid death

[killer7ITA]

Hallelujah? I like new consoles...

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Wii 2 rumors: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/04/...rything-again/

French site 01net claims it knows more about the next Nintendo console than most, suggesting that the Wii follow-up will feature a custom IBM PowerPC CPU (with three cores), an ATI 700 GPU and at least half a GB of RAM. Reasonably close then, in terms of basic architecture at least, to the Xbox 360.

Of course, this is all speculation, but at the moment there’s a lot of sources all pointing to very similar results – Nintendo’s next home console will be hugely powerful, relatively anyway, and will certainly be better placed to stand up to what the PS3 and 360 are presently doing, performance wise.

The Wii might not be super powerful, but it's been a massive commercial success. The next Nintendo console could be just as game changing.
01net also suggest that Project Cafe (as it’s being referred to, translated here) will also play GameCube and Wii games, as we’ve heard before. The trick, again, as we’ve mentioned, will be a six-inch touch screen on the controller, a front-facing camera and a full set of regular physical buttons.


But what does this mean for gamers? As everyone knows, the Nintendo Wii’s been instrumental in attracting a whole new range of more casual and older gamers to the industry, via a range of easier to play, physical titles that rely less on rote knowledge of which button does which, and more about actually just playing.

But some have balked, ignorantly perhaps, at the low resolution offered by the Wii in comparison to the PS3 and Xbox 360. It doesn’t matter to the majority of Wii gamers, but developers have clearly struggled with porting over key multiformat titles due to a lack of grunt – if Nintendo can convince publishers that 1:1 ports of current HD titles can make their way to a Nintendo platform, they’ll be quids in.

Of course, when the Wii 2 does release (again, all this is currently clearly just rumour) the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be edging towards moving over to the next generations, and then developers will have higher targets to aim at, potentially leaving Project Cafe behind once more. Is this all too little too late?

And that controller – it sounds like something the scale of an NGP but with a bigger screen (and presumably lots of motion control) – surely it won’t be a good idea to start throwing something that expensive around as you pretend to be whacking a tennis ball back and forth, or will the controller form the base, and things will just ‘connect’ to it, like the nunchuck?

Interesting times, for sure – the Wii changed everything, not always for the better, but anyone currently ignoring Nintendo should be keeping them firmly in their sights.

All eyes on E3, then.


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Wii 2 rumors: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=3681

Hey guys, I hope I can get your attention on this.

The french website 01.net has posted perhaps what is the most complete story so far on the successor of the Wii. Link to the story (in french).
They have a very reliable source that previously told them about the specs of the Sony NGP.

Here are the bullet points.

- Most of them have already been reported by other sites, but here goes : the console is codenamed "Project Café"
- will be introduced at E3 2011
- architecture is very similar to the Xbox 360; the Café is a bit more powerful than the 360
- porting current xbox 360 titles to the Café should be very easy should be retro-compatible with GameCube and Wii games, and support all Wii peripherals
- Specs : CPU is custom IBM PowerPC with three cores, GPU should be an ATI from the R700 family, with a shader unit at version 4.1. Ram should be at least 512 Mb.
- the controller is a touch tablet, with moderate graphic output (appears to be sub-HD, so nothing comparable to an Ipad, for example.)
- controller specs : 6-inch screen, single touch (so no multitouch, it seems), front camera, acts as a wii sensor bar, has a d-pad, two bumpers, two triggers, possibly more.
should be released in June of 2012 (for Japan ?), and holiday season (in the West ?)
there is another big surprise they can't talk about just yet

[Stu]

haha. this is gonna suck ass for every person who took advantage of the Virtual Console and WiiWare with their dumbass no-transfer policy. while Sony and Microsoft will allow for older users to keep their accounts onto the newer consoles, Nintendo will do something entirely stupid and make everyone buy everything all over again.

The console hasn't even been announced and your picking holes with an apparent lack of backwards compatibility? You really are special.

[Branden_Lucero]

The console hasn't even been announced and your picking holes with an apparent lack of backwards compatibility? You really are special.

yeah so? anything else?

[Stu]

Not yet. But by all means keep digging!

[killer7ITA]

From Twitter

jimreilly Jim Reilly (Ign news director)
Dual analog sticks on the controller. Can stream game content from the console. Not sure if it'll be full games, mini-games, or apps.


jimreilly Jim Reilly (Ign news director)
There will be first and third party "Wii 2" games at E3. No clue if they'll be playable.

[Beanovsky Durst]

Hallelujah? I like new consoles...

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- Most of them have already been reported by other sites, but here goes : the console is codenamed "Project Café"
- will be introduced at E3 2011
- architecture is very similar to the Xbox 360; the Café is a bit more powerful than the 360
- porting current xbox 360 titles to the Café should be very easy should be retro-compatible with GameCube and Wii games, and support all Wii peripherals
- Specs : CPU is custom IBM PowerPC with three cores, GPU should be an ATI from the R700 family, with a shader unit at version 4.1. Ram should be at least 512 Mb.
- the controller is a touch tablet, with moderate graphic output (appears to be sub-HD, so nothing comparable to an Ipad, for example.)
- controller specs : 6-inch screen, single touch (so no multitouch, it seems), front camera, acts as a wii sensor bar, has a d-pad, two bumpers, two triggers, possibly more.
should be released in June of 2012 (for Japan ?), and holiday season (in the West ?)
there is another big surprise they can't talk about just yet

Glad to see it might support both Gamecube and Wii titles. That way I can keep my collection and sell my Wii that has become just a paperweight ¬¬

But most important point yet: WHAT IS THE PRICE TAG? LOL.

[kevstah2004]

I'm not buying a new console till it does everthing in real-time including textures, lighting and completely synthesized sound, maybe it's me but over the last two generations i've yet to see any real innovation.