Wii Successor at E3? Game Informer says yes

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/14/new-nintendo-console-at-e3.aspx

Kinda figured Nintendo would be the first ones to put out new hardware, be nice if it maintains Wii compatibility and can render them to 720p atleast.

 

A Wii2 is more likely than a PS4 or "X720" as that console almost literally printed money, while the others took a while to start making money.

Besides PS3 and X360 sales are still strong, while the Wii isnt selling that well these days, and with kinect and move the wiimore isnt unique anymore.

 

If Nintendo don't make their new console HD they'd be mad! In this day and age most gamers now own HD TV sets. I have two big high end HD TVs myself now while in 2009 I had none. The problem is that Nintendo aren't what they were in the days of the Famicom and Super Famicom. Back then they made a killer console that didn't rely on gimmicks. They had the games, they had the quality and most important they had a clue.

To me the Wii was not a serious gaming system. I was there on day one buying mine and I loved it but as the year passed by I saw more and more games I wanted but they weren't coming to the Wii and if they did they were kiddyfied versions. The Wii does have some fantastic games, there's no denying that but they are very far and few between especially when I used to look at the month's upcoming games, see many that I wanted then realized they were mostly on the 360 while my Wii was getting shit based upon Japanese TV shows or piss poor original "wank your remote" style games.

What I'm trying to say is that if Nintendo follow their Wii success which is very likely, I can't see myself ever buying their new system because like the Wii it will be released with a few good games then as time goes by the good games become too few and far between while the shovelware family crap starts to fill up the library.

Yakumo

 

WiiD

 

In 2012 Nintendo will release the Nintendo Generations console. The console will update every officially licensed Nintendo game from NES to Wii with Wii Motion Plus+ support and glasses-free 3D while running every game in full 1080p HD.

The masses have cried out and spoken, Nintendo is delivering.

 

Another console already?

 

are you guys hearing some of the claims already being made about this thing?

I'm calling Bullshit

The reason Nintendo has to rely on Gimmicks is becuase they don't have the resources Sony and Microsoft have to make powerful hardware.

 

To be released 12-20-2012. :evil:

 

my opinion is 100% the same! wii is for the most part and most users a TOY, not a gaming console

if nintendo wanted to, they might get out with a powerhorse console. but they are just trying to sell old cheap hardware at high price to have great cash ins... Nintendo doesn't like to sell at a loss.

 

Is going to be HD for sure, even the iPad is HD now, but what about the hardware?

Are they going to stick with PPC so its compatible with Wii games? or they'll be using an emulator for that?

Mind that for next year there are going to be quad Cortex A9 SoC with as much power as the X360 or PS3 and at $25 the chip. They could make the Wii2 as small as the new appleTV.

Fun for the whole family!:lol:

Indeed:nod:

 

Wii becomes an almost-serious console when you hack it, though. The emulators, the freeware, and the few good actual Wii games make it great to own - like an extended definition retro-gaming computer of sorts.

Some games released for it were awesome, though. It could have gone much better.

Let's hope the big N has learned from their failure, or their next console will be their last, and we'll see Mario quite less often from then on.

 

Unfortunately, I expect there will have to be a 'fad' attached to it or some 'killer app' they haven't seen before, otherwise it won't appeal to the masses.

The only reason the 3DS is flying off the shelves is the 'glasses-free' 3D. It certainly doesn't have a killer app at the moment, and it appears to be that most people are buying it to play Pokemon with extra blurriness (what is with that, anyway? Is the screen just not as good as the later DSes?)

 

I can imagine there will be some new camera-like peripheral to replace the sensor bar and matching controllers to boot. Other than that, short of having an R2D2 holographic projector on the console, I m not that sure I can be wowed.

 

It's sad they have to switch gears this fast. But I agree the gimmick aspect was focused on way too much. Hell most first party titles support gc or classic controller.In the beginning the system had some potential, but the games released became mostly mini games or some simple game that barely uses the motion controls. Honestly I think the 64 had a better game lineup and new games were coming out on that console at a slower pace.

 

Hallelujah? I like new consoles...

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Wii 2 rumors: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/04/15/will-project-cafe-wii-2-change-everything-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.php?p=27149038&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

 

I think there could be something to all this but I find it suspicious how after 1 small leak all of a sudden tons of sites have all this info they where sitting on. I know they tend to hear things early but usually if they know this much they try to leak something out a little early (specially IGN).

Also I am taking the specs/info with a grain of salt, remember the shit said about 3DS & NGP by some sites?

 

Actually, I'd say it's the other way around, if Wii2 will be their last console, we'll see Mario everywhere, PS5, Xbox1080, iPad4, PSP3, just like Sonic. Even if Wii2 will be hard to sell, Mario is still high in demand.

 

breaking news! the first shot of wii's successor pad!




SPOILER!

 

Right now I'm imagining the bulkiest controller EVER.

Really, a six inch screen? That is way too big for a controller.

The rest of the specs sound fine to me. One of Wii's strongest points was the price, and as Nintendo aims to a different market than Sony and MS, they can get a good release price with a console with those specs and still get a lot of sales. Anyway I would improve the RAM to at least 1GB.