A new picture of the Wii U's controller reveals several curious redesign tweaks, including raised left and right thumb-sticks, as well as what appear to be extra buttons.
E3′s still over a month off and Nintendo’s ship already has leaks: A Wii U trailer for Rayman Legends is circulating, packed with footage of gamers playing the beautiful-looking platformer on Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii followup.
How much would you pay for Nintendo’s Wii U? $200? $400? “Nothing,” because you don’t plan to buy one?
If the world doesn’t end before the 2012 holiday shopping season rolls around, it sounds like there’s a decent chance we’ll actually see Nintendo’s Wii U on Sunday, Nov. 18.
Nintendo says it’s finally going to get with the program and release an honest-to-goodness online gaming service, dubbed “Nintendo Network,” that’ll cover both the Wii U and 3DS. Hooray, I think.
Goodbye 2011, you tumultuous, fickle, lovely year — hello 2012, another 365-day stretch full of promises, disappointments, and with a little luck, a few pleasant surprises as well. While we’re recovering from Christmas candy excesses and priming our livers for New Year’s debaucheries, let’s have a look at gaming’s crystal ball and see what bobs up.
Heard the latest scuttlebutt about the Wii U’s system specs? No, I don’t mean the one about Nintendo’s next console being 50% more powerful than a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.
New York City-born Reggie Fils-Aime, president and COO of Nintendo of America, was in the neighborhood and stopped by the TIME offices to talk to us about Nintendo’s plan for the holiday season, which sounds promising as Nintendo bounces back after a disappointing financial forecast released last month, with strong sales for the Wii and the latest Zelda release.
Last week, the fine folks at TechHeads asked yours truly and Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo to talk about the current status of Nintendo and gaming topics. You can see Stephen and me jaw it up below, but there were other points I didn’t have a chance to make that I wanted to add to the discussion:
Bad news, you guys. Or maybe just “news” if you don’t care all that much. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has let it be known that the upcoming Wii U console—despite its ability to use optical discs that are the same storage capacity as standard Blu-ray discs—won’t actually be able to play movies formatted for DVD [...]
There are two sides to Nintendo’s Wii U, as I discovered after spending nearly an hour with the upcoming home gaming system at E3 last week. On one hand, it’s another platform for gimmicky, silly fun, just like the original Wii. On the other, it’s a practical hardware upgrade that wants to be more capable [...]
