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What Does Ubisoft Think Of The Wii 2?

According to the French publisher’s CEO, not only is Nintendo’s Wii successor – currently known as Project Cafe – a “fantastic platform”, it’s also bound to be home to many a port from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

May 4, 2011
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Nintendo’s Next Console Will Enter HD Era, Not Hard-Drive Era

The successor to the Wii will not include a traditional hard drive, but will bear some of the traits of competing high-definition game consoles, according to sources familiar with Nintendo’s planned 2012 gaming machine.

April 28, 2011
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Nintendo Likes Buttons And Won’t Ditch Them

Nintendo is making a new video game console. Rumours state that the console has a touchscreen – something Kotaku has confirmed with its own industry sources.

April 27, 2011
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Nintendo Regrets Going It Alone With The Wii

For a console with an impressive install base of more 86 million, you might think that Nintendo wouldn’t have any regrets about the Wii. But Nintendo’s CEO says he does have one regret, one that he intends to address in the future.

April 26, 2011
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Why Is Nintendo Releasing A New Console?

Well, besides the fact that Wii sales are on a downward slide, Wii games don’t look good on HD televisions and the console is starting to show its age. Besides all that, there must be a reason.

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It Really Is Time For The Wii 2, According To The People Who Robbed Me This Weekend

There may be no clear winner in this generation’s console wars, but there is definitely a clear loser, at least according to the people that broke into my apartment this weekend and stole every piece of electronic equipment they could get their hands on.

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Nintendo’s New Console ‘Playable By Everyone’ At E3

Nintendo’s confirmation this morning that they’ll be showing their new console at E3 left many unanswered questions, but also raised a note of scepticism. The company’s statement on the Wii successor promises “a playable model” of the machine at E3 in June. But would Nintendo just play it on stage and leave attendees to gawk? No. “Playable means playable by everyone,” a spokesperson for Nintendo told Kotaku today. Presumably, “everyone” means “everyone who shows up at E3 and maybe waits on a line or schedules an appointment.” We’ll be there in June, playing it.

April 25, 2011
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Is This A Wii 2 (Project Cafe) Prototype? Or Yet Another Photoshop?

And if it is a Photoshop, it’s starting to seem like the phonies are copying images that could very well be phony. Fantasy feeding fantasy! [Thanks everyone who sent this in!]

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Nintendo Wants "New Approach" With Wii Successor

With the Wii successor, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said, “We would like to propose a new approach to home video game consoles.”

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Is Nintendo’s New Machine The Death Of The "Console Generation"?

So, Nintendo has finally confirmed that a new console will be out in 2012, six years after the release of the Wii. With Microsoft and Sony not due to release consoles until 2014 at the earliest, is this the death of the “console generation”?

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