Wii 2 specs (rumour)

A french site 01net, which leaked the NGP sepcs way before any official announcement, now revealed Wii 2 Specs. Project named 'Project Café', They say Wii 2 will be announced in E3 this year.. and will be slated to release in end of 2012.

Specifications:
- Processor: Custom IBM PowerPC three hearts.
- Graphics processor: AMD (ATI) - probably a series R700, with a shader (for managing the effects) more recent than the Xbox 360 (probably version 4.1).
- RAM: unknown. It would be logical that it is a unified RAM, like the 360, with a minimum of 512 MB

Now, It is not the end of the fun. They also revealed that, the controller will have a Six inch HD touch screen. Capable of playing its own games.

Controller Specifications:
- Screen Size: 6 inches.
- Ergonomics: Digital Cross, L, R, two triggers, others.
- Touch screen: single touch.
- Sensor for the Wiimote (replaces bar-sensor of the Wii).
- Camera: a front.

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i hope this time nintendo makes a console for gamers like me.

Nintendo's innovation really amaze me. They were the first ones to bring motion sensing gaming into this generation and see the level of hype it created. All its competitors followed suit and came up with their designs.

Now this will take interactivity to the next level. And finally the wii can boast hd graphics which it always deserved.

Well done NINTENDO. :thumbs:

vamsi_krishna said:
Now, It is not the end of the fun. They also revealed that, the controller will have a Six inch HD touch screen. Capable of playing its own games.

a 6" HD screen on a controller. add 2" on both side for keys & you got yourself a pretty big (& heavy) gaming machine. lets wait & watch.

well we can only expect new innovations from nintendo
6" HD screen on a controller!!...no one would have thought about this
btw my gameboy color still works

I expect Nitendo to improvise on this and make a kinda powerful ( not that powerful but powerful) for the gamers after watching HD in XBOX and PS3 its kinda hard to go to Nitendo's old age graphics. Well yes its completely different but still looks are looks you know so they should improvise IMO.

Got a news tip from Eurogamer

Next Nintendo console to use Blu-ray?

^^
nintendo kinds of targets family,kids and casual gamers so they probably won't make it very much powerful. they might rquip it enough to have HD. probably equivalent to 360.

^^No , this one will be powerful and in the league of ps3 and xbox 360.

^^
yeah, that's was what i was saying, wasn't i?

.=Pyro=. said:
probably equivalent to 360.

Even though they target families its time to go for hard core gamers because they are the one who makes money for a company by buying many titles in a year and families and Casual gamers don't buy that much games you know. I really think that they should also focus on other clan of gamers than just concentrating on a single clan. Like XBOX they have Kinect for casuals and for others also although its idea is based on Nitendo but still...

Lot of rumors are flying abuzz in the internet. One of them is wii2 graphics is 30% more powerful than ps3 and 80% more powerful than xbox360. The gpu is rumored to be based on amd R700 architecture.

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Ph boy if its true then Wii 2 is going to be a big hit for sure but still its kinda hard to digest that a console which was way weaker than their competitors are coming with a bang and I guess its a good thing for everyone. The casual gamers will have better visuals and hardcore gamers can finally move to Wii.

No. You guys are looking at the specs with current generation perspective. You should not. Look at it with Next Generation perspective and it will look much weaker. Then again, hardware was never the power of Wii. And we cannot expect Wii 2 to be the same. Nintendo finally had a break through after carnage of n64, GC by Playsation, Playsatation 2. They finally caught a break with Wii. We have to wait and see what happens next.

^^ I think both ps3 and 360 won't have their successors recently. Both sony and microsoft have decided to increase the shelf life of their consoles and will continue to push them at best for 2 more years. So wii2 will battle ps3 and 360. But next gen ps4 and xbox will indeed be superior.

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Btw, how many of you guys actually own a Wii or any Nintendo console? I have a softmodded Wii (Purely for the homebrew...honest :shock:

) , and a Nintendo DS (flashcart equipped...again for homebrew

) and finally the granddaddy known as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Hope the Wii 2's hardware lets it get some hardcore games, most of the Wii's games were shovelware.

Some more info (leaked) on wii2.

Source.

I guess that's how the console will look like.

Tachyon1986 said:
Btw, how many of you guys actually own a Wii or any Nintendo console? I have a softmodded Wii (Purely for the homebrew...honest ) , and a Nintendo DS (flashcart equipped...again for homebrew ) and finally the granddaddy known as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Hope the Wii 2's hardware lets it get some hardcore games, most of the Wii's games were shovelware.

I have a NES release model. Thats the only Nintendo console I own.

6 inch HD screen! On the controller! Wicked! Keep posting Dude.

IGN's article.. states that it has information form trusted sources that the console is likely to release in mid-November or early 2012. And will be priced $350-$400.

Project Cafe: The Tech Behind Nintendo's Next Console - Gear News at IGN

Wii 2 will be announced this year at E3 ( Electronic Entertainment Expo) in 7th - 9th june.

Nintendo themselves announced this info officially in japan. But it will hit shelves next year i.e 2012. All the rumours about project cafe came to be true afterall.

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Nintendo confirms wii sucessor. - MIWI

Good job by Nintendo. Wii sales had finally started to dwindle after owning PS3 and Xbox 360 all these years. Powerful hardware and better games was needed.

Yeah thats right. Wii config was too weak to compete against its rivals but the problem is that PS4 and new XBOX will be released in 2 or 3 years then I hope that Wii will make a new console to compete them.

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I hope the Wii 2 will be as easy to mod as the original

But seriously, modding the Wii was totally worth it. I was able to run PS1 games on it ^_^ and NES games as well.

Tachyon1986 said:
But seriously, modding the Wii was totally worth it. I was able to run PS1 games on it ^_^ and NES games as well.

Is that Legal???
Ontopic
Wii 2 to have 8GB flash memory, no HDD?
Unconfirmed reports have upcoming HD console sporting proprietary 25GB disc format--but no large-capacity internal hard drive.

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gameranand said:
Is that Legal???
Ontopic
Wii 2 to have 8GB flash memory, no HDD?
Unconfirmed reports have upcoming HD console sporting proprietary 25GB disc format--but no large-capacity internal hard drive.

Nope, it's not legal but the Wii is a good console as far as legacy gaming is concerned. The modding did do a ton of good things. For one , you could play games directly off an external USB Hard Drive , good for keeping your original DVDs shiny and scratch-free in addition to very low loading times.

On Topic,

Just 8GB of Flash memory? I hope that's not true

. With the 360 and PS3 sporting huge drives, this would be a step backwards.

I'm more concerned on whether Nintendo will actually do an official launch of the Wii 2 in India. The original never got one here AFAIK , and the ones available in stores are all made for the United Arab Emirates . If you look at Nintendo's website, there are no service centers for India

. You gotta send it to Japan.

Tachyon1986 said:
Just 8GB of Flash memory? I hope that's not true . With the 360 and PS3 sporting huge drives, this would be a step backwards.

I'm more concerned on whether Nintendo will actually do an official launch of the Wii 2 in India. The original never got one here AFAIK , and the ones available in stores are all made for the United Arab Emirates . If you look at Nintendo's website, there are no service centers for India . You gotta send it to Japan.

Yeah I know. I also hope that its not true. And yes Nitendo should really start supporting India. They are losing a good amount of sales because India has a lot of potential buyers who don't buy because of lack of support.

Wii 2 controller has a camera?
Takes in-game pictures - report.

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gameranand said:
Wii 2 controller has a camera?
Takes in-game pictures - report.

Awesome , now the Wii has it's very own PrintScreen key.