Jeffrey Matulef writes, "It's been announced that Nintendo's upcoming "Project Cafe" will have a touch screen on its controller. I'm still trying to wrap my head around what this could mean. Sure, Nintendo used this idea before with the GBA connecting to the Gamecube, but like most people, I never bothered with that. It was expensive, a big hassle, and most games didn't utilize it in any meaningful way. But that was then and this is now, so maybe things have changed."
Matt Randisi writes "Gamers follow E3 every year to hear the latest news on the hottest games that have yet to come out and the newest technology to be integrated within video game consoles. Never one to pay much attention to the world of portable gaming myself, my attention is usually glued to the news concerning new releases for my home systems. The upcoming games for Nintendo’s 3DS mean much more than what is on the surface however. The choice of games that we will more than likely hear about during E3 2011 is significantly more respectable than the launch titles, bringing many popular and successful core titles back into the forefront. With details of Project Café being purely speculation at this point, one can view the next batch of games for the 3DS as being indicative of Nintendo’s focal point of their next generation main console as well. That focal point says loud and clear “Bring the core gamer back to us!”. As many in the industry from journalistic and developmental point...
GGTL@E3: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That's the feeling I think most people have going into this whole "Project Cafe" thing, what was the code name for what has become Wii U, and after watching the Nintendo Press Conference, I'm excited and not afraid to say it."
Game Podunk Editor Marcus Estrada presents an analytical and opinion piece in response to Nintendo's press conference, "Nintendo's E3 2011 press conference is one of the most confusing I've watched in a while. Gamers everywhere knew that Nintendo had a new console in the wings, codenamed Project Cafe. Rumors began to swell that the new console would have a touch-screen controller, be called simply "Nintendo", and various other things. After today's conference, a few things have been clarified but many new questions have been raised."
yeah they should have just unveiled the controller and nothing more if they weren't ready to show their system
this just opens up the speculation for their next system even more
Thing I didn't like them unveiling it was it seemed like Wiiu seemed to be referring to just the controller and not the hardware that connects to the tv. For a while, I thought the controller was just an accessory for the current Wii.
Yeah, same here, I was playing infamous 2 and my friend reminded me it was on, so i turned on the live feed and i see the controller and they never said anything about the console, so during the whole conference i was so puzzled as for why they were just releasing a new controller and how that alone could house HD graphics.
Indeed, and I think even just the name will confuse people. The U simply makes it sound like an accessory.
Which is sad, because they really did impress me with all the hardware. I just want a name change for now. Nintendo Stream sounded perfect IMO.
i think not showing the console has ultimately prevented the wii from not selling... they gave u a glimpse at the future but are not yet ready to stop their consumers from buying the wii and just wait for the wii 2
if anything, the controller is the center piece to the system just like when Iwata unveiled the wii-mote. It is the centerpiece to the wii.
The core hardware itself being the console is pretty straight forward. Nintendo is going for the change of interaction with games. Not changing game performance based on raw specs.
If you really think about it, the console itself is just the box that holds the game. What you hold in your hands is what changes things.
It's how you control and what you do that separates one from the other. Every time I get a new cable box I am more interested in the remote because the box is just.....a box.
@darth: That's all nice and poetic, but we still have to pay for the box and the controller doesn't work without it.
So yeah, it's still important.
Perhapse the WiiU is an add on for the Wii and the unannounced next system from Nintendo.
The more I look at it and the watch Nintendo's presentation of it the more im beginning to think that the WiiU is separate from the system.
The reason they did it the way they did is basically because the Wii2 is not much (if at all) more powerful than the PS3/X360. That is why. All they did was play catch up, add a new controller, and promise us some sort of real online support without showing us any proof.
The whole thing stunk of desperate reaching only trying to show off the controller to in the hopes of out wowing new consumers and their own fanbase from kinect. IMO
The Wii-u was all concept showing current hd console footage and tech demos. No one cares about that controller people want to see Nintendo do traditional gaming in the hd console space. The show went like that because the console is barely ready and they thought they could slow down xbox 360 adoption with a new controller that out innovates kinect, in their minds.
Imo all of e3 from all the big 3 was about strengthening the brand by advertising related brand products and not so much the things that built these empires
The tech makes no sense is it still motion? And is this thing too complicated and delicate for young and old users?
Yeah I was waiting for them to show off the actual system but they didn't then I was thinking everything was inside the controller and was wondering how that would actually work. Think it was poorly executed IMO but still cant wait for the system
they had no wii games AT ALL. only the zelda game they have been working on for the past 7 years.
so of course they had to show the U, even if they had nothing to show on it.
you know, i have been in here whinging and whining for months about the sorry state of the wii, and people told me to shut up because at e3 nintendo would reveal all their hidden games... yeah right! TOLD YOU SO! I WAS RIGHT! they had nothing!
wii died last year but nintendo was just propping its corpse up in a chair to trick you lmao glad i wasnt fooled.
WII DEAD 2011 i told you.
sad thing is, i was actually excited to see what nintendo had to show, with wii especially. but no. pathetic mario party, a game NOBODY wants.
a recycled kirby game from a decade ago. it was canned back then because it was obviously not up to standard, but now the wii is on its last legs its cool? no!
no f zero
no starfox.
no official announcement regarding last story's release in the west
same with xeno
same with pandoras tower and any other game you care to name
those announcements would have been little consolation but they didnt even whisper about them.
i could go on and on. its tragic
ok, announce wii u, and show it in the most worst light possible. its meant to be the next gen console and what do they do? they show demos on it that look like they came straight off of wii sports from 2007. its UNBELIEVABLE how much of a missed opportunity that is. hardly selling its next gen/hd status.
unbelievable
zelda, kirby , mario party for US
and xenoblade, last story for europe
and pandoras tower for japan is nothing?
I fele bad for you
wii isn't dead but its holding on by one finger. nintendo can't put out enough quality exclusive to keep going, imagine the 360 without third party games and you can see why nintendo releases the same franchise every year.
i have said it before 3ds is a failure, it should not have been called DS and wiiu should not be called wii. Core never saw a wii halo or UC so they don't follow the wiii, don't care about it
they largely never brought in or stopped playing
to your point they don't have much to show but neither didn't any other of the big three CRAP E3
cant wait for you to eat all those words when the big n officially shows you the new console.
Ummm, durrrr, MAYBE because people have been speculating and making rumors about it for weeks now?
It didnt work for the gba with crystal chronichles its not gonna work with this who wants to watch a 7 inch screen for a stats display when sitting infront off a 40inch tv that can also show this stats screen.
I'm tired of speculation.
People speculated that we'll see all this awesome, and cool stuff, that all we've got is shit.
I don't like the sound of screens on controllers.. that already sounds like $$
I predict that we will find out in a few hours.
WII PORTABLE... AKA A DAMN GAMEBOY LOLD