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Home > News > Project Cafe or Wii 2? Nintendo Confirms E3 Reveal of New Console For 2012
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Project Cafe or Wii 2? Nintendo Confirms E3 Reveal of New Console For 2012

April 26, 2011 by Gord McLeod

Nintendo Wii

E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) is always a big time of year for gaming news, and this year’s looking to be no exception. Apparently spurred by the Wii’s inability to surprise gamers, Nintendo has confirmed that they will be announcing a new console for release in 2012.

Details are of course pretty scarce, but speculation is plentiful. What we do know is that the new rig will feature HD graphics, making it more attractive to 3rd party developers. This is something Nintendo has a history of trouble with – their consoles have a reputation for being great for selling Nintendo titles and not so great for selling anyone else’s.

Even the name is uncertain at this point. There’s a lot of speculation and even assumption that Nintendo’s next console will be the Wii 2, but there’s no indication so far that that will end up being true. If it were true, it would fly in the face of Nintendo’s historical naming convention – they’ve never done a true numbered sequel to a console before. In the past they’ve done the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) to Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and similar names for the Gameboy line; the only time they’ve hinted at numerical naming is the Nintendo 3DS, which followed the DS, DS Lite and DSi.

We’ll know more come E3 this summer, and when we know, you’ll know too. In the meantime, do you have any thoughts on the matter? Would you buy it if it ended up being an HD Wii? If not, what would it take? Let us know in the comments!

(via GameInformer & 1up.com)

Filed Under: News Tagged With: console, E3, gaming, HD, Nintendo

About Gord McLeod

I'm a writer and game designer with a background covering everything from IT work to programming to the graphic arts. I'm intensely interested in everything game, gadget and science related.
Find me at Fiction Improbable, my fiction writing website, at @gordmcleod on Twitter, and at my Google+ Profile too.

Comments

  1. jarred says

    May 17, 2011 at 8:25 am

    I am not sure if i am even going to buy this because they didn’t say anything about online gameplay, that tells me that it is going to be a huge failure if their is no online gameplay since the Xbox 360 and the Ps3 has it and it has been years since they first came out..

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