Rumor: Nintendo Set to reveal HD Wii at E3

[BreakABone]

http://kotaku.com/#!5797890/nintendo...hard+drive-era

New rumors, oh more rumors

-8gb of on board internal memory (ALAS, the lack of memory hurt their downloadable stores)
-25 GB disc based storage (Blu-ray?)
-May be maxed at 1080i or 1080p not sure

[Vampyr]

Has there been any news on how moving Wii Ware and Virtual Console purchases to the new system will work?

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Has there been any news on how moving Wii Ware and Virtual Console purchases to the new system will work?

There hasn't, but I assume since the #3DS allows you to, the Wii 2 has to.

Also one of the more grounded approaches to all of the Wii 2 rumors http://bit.ly/le1WO2

[manasecret]

Some great user-submittted Wii 2 console designs:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/116/1166486p1.html

Such as



And this one, which I don't like so much for the concept art, but for the spelling of Stream.



This is ingenious. Whatever Nintendo calls it, they don't have to call it Wii 2. They just have to incorporate the "ii" in the name and everyone will know exactly that it is the successor to the Wii.

[Blix]

The NES design would be awesome if it happened. I don't care what anyone says. XD

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Blix

The NES design would be awesome if it happened. I don't care what anyone says. XD

I like it. I've just followed Nintendo enough to know it won't happen.

[Blix]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

I like it. I've just followed Nintendo enough to know it won't happen.

Yes, they never repeat themselves. I liked it better in the past when consoles looked different from anything else you'd have around.

[BreakABone]

We're getting early word from two developers on their support:

Noting that Tecmo Koei is trusted by hardware makers as a third party that will always have a titles ready in time for a platform's launch, he said that he'd like have launch titles for Nintendo's Wii 2 successor platform.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/201...koei_earnings/

"The platform Nintendo is coming with is really a fantastic platform. We think it will be extremely successful," he stated.

"What we see is that we will be able to leverage a lot of the work we do for Xbox 360 and PS3 while we create games for the platform.

"So we will not have to redo completely the games that we create. We'll be able to use all the capacity the console is giving but also use all the work we do for the other platforms."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-work-for-cafe

[thatmariolover]

I hope that doesn't mean that Ubi plans to just port their PS3/360 titles and add support for the touchscreen controller.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

I hope that doesn't mean that Ubi plans to just port their PS3/360 titles and add support for the touchscreen controller.

That's most def what it means, and oddly what I expect from the majority of 3rd parties to be honest.

IGN also has a new article up with some rumored specs

http://gear.ign.com/articles/116/1168222p1.html

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

That's most def what it means, and oddly what I expect from the majority of 3rd parties to be honest.

IGN also has a new article up with some rumored specs

http://gear.ign.com/articles/116/1168222p1.html

Yeah, I'm just having trouble swallowing a rumored $350-$400 price tag for PS3 games at this point.

As for IGN's article... It was a fun read, but factually it was worthless.

1) They used an AMD processor that's an order of magnitude slower than the PPC chip rumored to be in the Wii 2.
2) They only gave the system an extra gig of ram to accommodate Windows 7.

I mean, all they accomplished was showing what the PC ports of games originally designed for consoles running on a RAM starved PC with a processor that's easily 30-50% slower than the tri-core PPC.

But hey, they conned their boss into paying for a new PC. So that's cool, right?

[Blix]

Is anyone else interested in seeing current wii games running in 1080p? I think Metroid Prime 3: Corruption should look sweet. SSBB, Zelda: TP and the conduit should look fine running on that thing. Not as good as games on 360, PS3 and PC but the fun in it is looking at the relativity between the two. I hope Nintendo repeats the one friend code or finally gives us screen names with friend lists and the ability to know what your friends are doing.

[Blix]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Yeah, I'm just having trouble swallowing a rumored $350-$400 price tag for PS3 games at this point.

As for IGN's article... It was a fun read, but factually it was worthless.

1) They used an AMD processor that's an order of magnitude slower than the PPC chip rumored to be in the Wii 2.
2) They only gave the system an extra gig of ram to accommodate Windows 7.

I mean, all they accomplished was showing what the PC ports of games originally designed for consoles running on a RAM starved PC with a processor that's easily 30-50% slower than the tri-core PPC.

But hey, they conned their boss into paying for a new PC. So that's cool, right?

I can't believe I missed this. The funniest part of the article was that they put a price on that 4850 of $200. Huge fail!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150482

The only one left available in newegg.com is priced at $119.99. while the 5850 is around that price now (goes above and below it from a quick search I did).

[BreakABone]

Rumors, but rumors are always fun

http://www.nintendo-master.com/xtnew..._le3_2011_.htm

[Angrist]

Nice photoshop job. No wait, it's terrible.

Are people still very excited about SSB? I really loved all of them, but I don't really look forward to a new one. Unless they really add something new (which I think will be hard).