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Nintendo’s new Wii U tablet-like controller and HD console will be sold as a single unit. Both the controller and the console will be sold as one unit. You won’t be able to buy the controller alone,” a Nintendo spokesperson told CVG at E3. The Wii U’s iPad-like controller has …
Read More »E3 2011: Wii Vitality Sensor still alive
Development of the Wii Vitality Sensor continues and the peripheral could still see a release. At a developer panel at E3, Shigeru Miyamoto said, Development has continued,” Siliconera reports. He went on to say that the sensor, revealed by Nintendo in 2009, has a difficult time performing consistently across a …
Read More »Wii U runs with AMD custom Radeon HD GPU
E3 2011: AMD shy on details for new graphics chip, though promises high-end performance
Read More »E3 2011: Pikmin 3 headed to Wii U
Shigeru Miyamoto has announced that Pikmin 3 is coming to Wii U, according to Eurogamer. The Nintendo guru said he decided to delay development on the planned Wii title and move it over to Nintendo’s newly announced successor. He added the franchise will be especially suited to HD visuals. A …
Read More »VIDEO: The Wii U graphics demo
E3 2011: Nintendo flaunts the next-gen power of its new console
Read More »Nintendo: Wii U disc capacity at 25GB
E3 2011: New console can read discs as big as Blu-ray, employee says
Read More »Nintendo brings TV to controller with Wii U
E3 2011: Details exposed on Wii successor at E3
Read More »E3 2011: Wii 2 to be called Nintendo?
The successor to the Wii, currently known as Project Cafe, Wii 2 or Wii HD, may in fact be called ‘Nintendo’, that’s according to Game Informer. The US specialist publication speculates that a philosophy in simplifying naming conventions is the reason Nintendo’s next console will simply be called ‘Nintendo’ or …
Read More »Retail cuts Wii to below £100
As predicted by MCV, games retail has cut the price of Wii to under 100. GAME, Gamestation and Asda are the first retailers to stock the new Mario Kart bundle (and the existing Wii Sports Resort bundle) for just 99.99. This applies to both in-store and online. HMV has the …
Read More »Biggest ever Wii campaign promotes price cut
Nintendo will support next week’s Wii price drop with the biggest marketing campaign it has ever run for the format outside the Christmas period. The firm announced last week that it is cutting the trade price of the current Wii Sports Resort pack and introducing a low cost Mario Kart …
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