Nintendo will be live streaming their E3 press conference on Tuesday June 7th at 09:00am PDT/12:00pm EDT at the Nokia Theatre.
The conference is set to be a specular one this year with Nintendo preparing to show off its successor to the Nintendo Wii which is currently referred to as Project Cafe. There will also be a whole host of new and exciting software for both the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo Wii to look forward to.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was recently given the chance to discuss Nintendo’s successor to the Wii which is known internally as Project Cafe and to explain why Nintendo have decided to cut the recommended retail price of its immensely successful Wii console.
On Wii price drop:
“For us this is a very important move. This is only the second price reduction for Wii hardware since we launched back in November 2006. And in the last home console cycle, the leading system at the time sold almost 50 percent of its volume at a price point of $149 or below.”
On why consumers will buy Wii with Project Cafe looming:
“When we launch our new home system sometime in 2012 we think the consumer buying in will look very different than the consumer who’s going to be buying a Wii now. What we’ve seen in this business it that there are certain consumers who love being first – they have to have the absolute latest hardware – and there are other consumers that are perfectly happy to wait until the game library is much more robust and they have a wider range of options.”
On declining Wii sales:
“Typically a system peaks in the second year of availability and then gradually declines. Wii was fortunate to have a number of very strong selling years in its 3rd and 4th year of availability. And from our perspective, the curve that we’re on is natural and to be expected but importantly, the sales curve is higher than any other system.”
On timing of the price drop:
“There are a lot of households where kids will be off from school and the parents are either looking for celebratory presents as the children finish the school year or they’re looking for a fun exercise to keep the kids busy and happy during the summer time frame. We think there is a wide range of consumers that are wanting to purchase a Wii and what they have been waiting for is this type of announcement.”
- Nintendo of America president , Reggie Fils Aime
Online Swedish gaming publication Loading have revealed that a source close to Nintendo has told the site that Nintendo’s next home console will be called Feel.
It’s long been known that Nintendo are preparing a console that will once again change the way we experience video games. This time around it will be the ability to touch or feel that will differentiate this console from what we’ve previously seen before.
After Touch will Feel
We have already heard that Nintendo will develop a controller with built-in screen. Since the information is leaked, it has drawn parallels to both Apple iPad and how Nintendo used the Game Boy Advance hand control to a few Gamecube games. But the new screen controller has another dimension – convey the sense of touch. Our source using the working title of Nintendo Feel .Haptic technology is a form of tactile feedback Used To Simulate the experience of Different objects best moments on screen. The player cannabis move Their fingertips across a surface and Clearly Feel the Difference Between Soft, smooth or rugged texture. Electronic companies across the World Have Been Conducting research in this field for years. It’s Been That rumored Apple is close to patenting a similar technology, and we’ve seen the Toshiba demonstration of ‘New Sensation UI Solution’ That Applies a thin film over a screen in order to Achieve a haptic effect. In Nintendo’s case, this is a natural progression of Both the Nintendo DS touch screen & the Wii technology.
And sure, anyone can imagine what the feeling of furry coat against the fingertips would make for Nintendogs. One need not be especially familiar with The Legend of Zelda for the understanding of the fantastic in order to draw patterns in the sand, feel the coolness from the river, burn on lava or perceiving structures of the bark of an old tree.
But at the same time, Nintendo Feel an experience you will not want to explain in words, but just put in the hands of the player. Which probably explains why Nintendo chose to have playable demos at E3, with in June, although the finished console not being launched until 2012.
- Swedish website, Loaded
Tip: Chris Smith
British gaming emporium GameStation have announced that they’re already asking customers to register their interest in Nintendo’s next home console which is currently being referred to internally as Project Cafe.
Whilst nothing has been officially confirmed by Nintendo regarding the consoles capabilities we know that Nintendo are already hard at work on the console which is currently scheduled to be released sometime during 2012
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors and analysts that Nintendo regrets how it marketed the Wii.
Speaking to investors Iwata explained that the company now regrets not reaching out more to third party developers, citing that this is one incremental factor that has pushed Nintendo to bring out a new home console which is due 2012.
“I now regret that we didn’t tie up with someone outside the company to market the Wii. If we had done that, the fate of the Wii might have been different.”
“Now I am aware that we should not rely too much on ourselves. You will see what I mean by this when we market the 3DS and the Wii in the future.”
- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors that the recently announced successor to the immensely popular Nintendo Wii will “offer a new way of playing games within the home.”
Satoru Iwata wouldn’t go into detail regarding how Nintendo’s next generation home console will change the way that gamers experience video games, but instead he stated that people should be patient and all will be revealed at E3 in June.
“As for the details of exactly what it will be, we have decided that it is best to let people experience it for themselves at E3. So I won’t talk about specific details today, but it will offer a new way of playing games within the home.”
- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata
IGN are reporting that people close to Project Cafe have informed them that the controller for the forthcoming Nintendo console will allow players to stream entire games from the console to the systems controller. The source claims that the controllers screen resembles a six inch miniature television. Expect to here more fascinating rumours leading up to E3.
According to revered gaming publication Edge there’s a whole host of large development studios that are currently in possession of development kits for the next Nintendo home console.
Large third party developers such as Ubisoft, Activision and Electronic Arts have had the new development kits for the successor to the Nintendo Wii for months. It now seems extremely likely that a full reveal of the console will be made at E3 in June.
French gaming site 01net, the site which leaked the specifications for Sony’s NGP, has revealed that the successor to the Nintendo Wii is known internally as ‘Project Cafe’.
The site has also backs up recent claims that the controller for the console is a high resolution touch screen device. The console apparently uses architecture similar to that found within Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console.
“The console will include a custom IBM PowerPC CPU with three cores, a GPU from the ATI R700 family with a shader unit at version 4.1, and at least 512Mb of RAM.”
‘Project Café’ will also include backwards compatibility with both the Wii (including all peripherals) and GameCube games.”
“The controller has a six-inch touch screen, a front-facing camera, D-Pad, two bumpers, two triggers and “possibly more,” and can be used as a Wii sensor bar.”
Following yesterdays spectacular revelation that Nintendo are set to début a brand new console at E3 more news has leaked regarding the consoles controller.
According to a source at online gaming publication CVG the new systems controller will be a unique HD touch screen. Clearly if this is the case then there’s so many possibilities that it makes my mind boggle at the very thought of it. What do you think?
“Nintendo’s plans sound unreal,” one source said. “Publishers are already planning launch titles and it’s all very exciting. The hardware is even more powerful than current HD consoles and backwards compatible with Wii. The controller will be all-new and has a HD screen on it.”
