Powerful Wii 2 coming at E3, Wii to sell for $150 starting next month

[HiTecK]

Powerful Wii 2 coming at E3, Wii to sell for $150 starting next month According to multiple sources, Nintendo is planning to unveil the Wii 2 at the upcoming E3 event in June, while at the same time slashing the price of the Wii to $150 beginning May 15th.
The sources say the new Wii will boast more powerful specs than the PlayStation 3 and a newly redesigned controller will have a built-in HD screen.

Game publishers have already been alerted to the new console, and launch titles are already in the works for the 2012 anticipated launch.

Outside of having more powerful graphics than the PS3 and Xbox 360, the console will be backwards compatible with all current Wii games.

The timing works well with the rumor that Nintendo also plans to slash the price of the Wii to $150 next month, and then to $99 in 2012 ahead of the Wii 2 launch.

 

[sinno]

A few more rumours to add

- Codenamed "Project Café", final name unknown (CVG)
- Formal announcement E3 2011 or before, with a targeted release in late 2012 (CVG)
- Developers such as Ubisoft, Activision, and EA have had the devkit for months (EDGE)
- Controller has 6-inch touch screen, front-facing camera, D-Pad, two bumpers, two triggers and "possibly more," functions as a Wii sensor bar (CVG)
- Conflicting reports on the controller screen resolution, some say it's HD, others say sub-HD (CVG and VG247)
- Controller allows streaming of full games to the device from the console "like a mini TV" (Jim Reilly's Twitter)
- Superior motion controls, better than Move (EDGE)
- First and third party Project Café games to be shown at E3. Not confirmed if there's any playable games (Jim Reilly's Twitter)
- Supports high definition resolution (Game Informer)
- On par with or more powerful than Xbox 360 and PS3 (CVG)
- Custom IBM Tri-core PowerPC CPU, ATI R700 family GPU shader version 4.1, at least 512Mb of RAM (CVG)
- Backwards compatible with both Wii and Gamecube games, along with all peripherals for said systems (CVG)
- Possibly uses Blu-ray discs as the primary media for games (VG247)
- An older comment by Satoru Iwata hints at possibly adding 3D support for future consoles, but not yet rumored by any sources for Project Café (EDGE)

 

[Linny40]

suppose they have got to keep up with the other companies and consoles as the wii is so outdated now compared to the others. wonder if it will be as easy to back up!

 

[sinno]

With the hacking of the PS3 a number of possibilities to different aproaches have presented themselves to opening the systems,if they do go the Blueray route there is a blueray decrypter out now courtesy of RichDevX,backwards compatibility will have a exploit,the only way i can see this thing being secure is for nintendo to hire the hackers to secure it