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Iwata wants Wii successor to be more attractive to third parties
Image: Call of Duty Black Ops box art. Activision. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted third party developers didn’t latch on to the Wii the way they so successfully did with the DS. In part,...
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Iwata admits Nintendo needs outside help for online development
Image: Nintendo. During a recent Q&A with investors, Nintendo President Iwata admitted that his company was unable to keep pace with changes in the industry during development of the Wii’s online...
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Project Café rumours: no hard-drive, 25GB optical discs
Sources speaking to Kotaku claim that Nintendo’s next home console, codenamed Project Café, will lack a hard drive, but include 8GB of flash memory. That’s a sizable leap from the Wii’s 512MB, but...
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10 Hopes and Dreams for Project Café, Part 1: Controller Screen Fever
Image: Adapted from Seven by thrig under a CC-BY license. We’re still a month away from Nintendo’s big reveal of their next home console, known right now only as Project Café, but descriptions of the...
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Ubisoft: we can bring 360/PS3 games to Project Café
Image: Assassin's Creed 2. Ubisoft. Finally, something about Project Café that’s not a rumour. Nintendo’s Wii has famously and unfortunately missed out on a lot of major multi-platform titles this...
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IGN builds a “Wii2″
We’re still a month away from Project Café’s E3 unveiling, and reliable rumours have dried up. That leaves plenty of time for idle speculation, and in IGN’s case, scientific experimentation. The site...
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Tecmo Koei has Project Café launch game aspirations
Image: Aerobiz Supersonic box art. Tecmo Koei. During a Tecmo Koei earnings briefing, CEO Yoichi Erikawa said he is hoping to have launch titles ready for Nintendo’s upcoming, unnamed, Project Café...
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10 Hopes and Dreams for Project Café, Part 2: Nintendo’s Catch-Up
Image:that which has no life can never die by sulci. Used with permission from the artist. Welcome to the second half of my two-part article on 10 hopes and dreams for Project Café. You can read part 1...
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E3 2011: Predictions for Nintendo’s Conference
Image: Adapted from E3 2010 Nintendo Media Event - Mr Shigeru Miyamoto demos the new Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword by popculturegeek.com under a CC-BY license. Nintendo’s E3 press conference will be...
View ArticleHilariously fake video of Project Café at “private developer conference”
I’ve seen poorly done fakes in my time, but this has to rank as one of the absolute worst. I’m posting this only for amusement. As you can see, the Café’s controller does appear to feature a 6″ screen...
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Rumour: Wii 2/Project Café controller to include camera
Develop is reporting that Nintendo’s Project Café, Wii 2, or Stream, controller will include a front-facing camera. Develop’s source also confirmed many of the rumours regarding the system’s...
View ArticleFake Project Café video is fake
A few days ago I posted a ridiculously fake video of what was supposed to be a bit of Nintendo’s Project Café/Wii 2/Stream at a “private developer conference” (see above). Well, there is no additional...
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Fanboy speculation masquerading as rumour: New Super Smash Bros. for Café, E3...
Image: Super Smash Bros. Melee. Nintendo. A site named The Great Gaming Crusade claims to have an inside source that Super Smash Bros. 4 is in development for Project Café and will be revealed at E3...
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Project Café: The Comprehensive Report (updated May 24)
Gimme. Since April 14, 2011, rumours regarding Nintendo’s next generation console, codenamed “Project Café,” have been rapidly accruing. On April 25th, Nintendo officially confirmed that development of...
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Rumour: Project Café to include HD Virtual Console games
Image: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Capcom. A new, pretty shaky, rumour making its rounds across the internet is that Project Café’s Virtual Console store will include HD versions of classic...
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Project Café Controller Mock-up
Image: Café controller mock-up. With the reveal of Nintendo’s Wii successor (variously known as Project Café, Wii 2, and Stream) still one agonizing week away, I thought it would be fun to put together...
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Project Café controller details confirmed
Image: Café controller mock-up. Japanese business newspaper Nikkei has confirmed much of what was already rumoured regarding Nintendo’s upcoming Wii successor, at least where the controller is...
View ArticleHints of third party Café support, other pre-E3 hype worthy tidbits
During the latest episode of GameTrailers’ Invisible Walls, that site’s Editor in Chief hinted that he had heard there were “big third-party announcements” on the way for Project Café to be shown at E3...
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Rumour: More than one Mario game at E3
Image: NeoGAF. We already know Super Mario 3DS is in development, and Nintendo is bound to show it off at E3, but there are rumours of one more Mario game headed to the show this year. Supposed retail...
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Project Café: crazy internet rumours just might be true
Image: Grand Theft Auto IV artwork. Rockstar. A 4chan poster who goes by the user name “Round Cactus” posted a pretty steep list of upcoming Project Café software around the middle of May that is...
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