Gonna list some of the rumors we've seen so far here, if any of you know of some I missed, let me know so I can update this list and maybe one of the mods can use it to catch up the OP.
First though, for those wondering, here when
Nintendo's Investor's Meeting will be held
Now to the rumors!
Edge:
- Motion-sensing better than Move.
- Ubisoft, Activision and Electronic Arts have development units
IGN/Jim Reilly:
- pre-announcement this month with a full reveal expected at E3
- BC with Wii
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significantly more powerful than X360/PS3
- The system will support 1080p output with the potential for stereoscopic 3D as well, though it has not been determined whether that will be a staple feature.
- screen on controller, will have touch capability
- Dual analog sticks on the controller.
- Can stream game content from the console.
- "New Nintendo controller allows players to stream entire games to the device from the console - like a miniature television."
- "working simultaneously with the console to bring interactive elements and even stream full games to the controller."
- "every story published citing an anonymous source is based on information we believe to be credible and true from reliable, trusted sources. If a story or tip seems flimsy, we dont run it, or do our best to indicate when a story seems questionable."
- retail price of anywhere between $350 and $400 based on manufacturing costs. Nintendo could attempt to lower the retail price of the system with lower profit margins to make the price more alluring.
- will ship from Taiwanese manufacturer, Foxconn, this October, putting the earliest possible retail release anywhere between mid-October and early November. However, Nintendo could also opt to build up a sizable supply of the system and allocate more time for software and games development by launching in early 2012.
- AMD's R700 GPU architecture
- custom-built triple-core IBM PowerPC chipset
- Overall console size comparable to original XBox 360
- resemble a modernized version of the SNES
- Nintendo considering the name "Stream" for console, among others.
- Controller has Gyroscope
- Nintendo would love to launch Q1 or Q2 2012, software development pending
- "The controller isn't a portable system. It's a controller with a screen in it. You're not going to go far from your console which has to be on before you lose signal. The controller also doesn't have much outside of chips to process the data that's streaming to it. That means the control isn't going to have its own library of software, and I don't believe that it's going to retain any data on its own." (Rich, IGN Executive Editor, in the IGN mailbag)
- Cafe games are scheduled to be at E3 2011
VG247:
- "controller is a touch tablet, with moderate, sub-HD graphic output with a single-touch 6-inch screen, a front camera which acts as a Wii sensor bar, two d-pads, two bumpers, and possibly more than two triggers."
CVG:
- feature a built-in HD screen.
- "Nintendo's plans sound unreal," one source said. "Publishers are already planning launch titles and it's all very exciting"
Kotaku:
- more powerful than X360/PS3
- new controllers screen will measure 6.2 inches
- include eight buttons.
- "It wont necessarily be, however, the controller that every Wii 2 gamer uses. It isnt even being positioned as a replacement for the famous Wii Remote."
- "a new Wii Sports could use the Remote; a new Zelda could use the screen-based twin-stick controller."
- not clear on whether the new console will simply use the current Wii remote tech or if Nintendo will offer a remote that improves upon the already-improved and more motion-sensitive Wii Remote Plus that launched last year.
GameInformer:
- HD System
- Competitive Specs to PS3/360
- Late 2012 launch
- "Nintendo is doing this one right"
- "[It's] not a gimmick like the Wii."
01net::
- "Project Café"
- Developer quotes: graphics capabilities "roughly equal to those of the Xbox 360", performance "over the Xbox 360, but just a notch".
- custom IBM PowerPC CPU with three cores
- RAM: unknown. It would be logical that it is a unified RAM, like the 360, with a minimum of 512 MB
- 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).
- controller has a six-inch touch screen,
- a front-facing camera,
- D-Pad,
- two bumpers,
- two triggers
- screen resolution will fall into the 800 x 500 range
- and "possibly more,"
- Surprise feature
- Be revealed at E3
- Controller Mockup:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2uyga69.png
Sam Kennedy on the 1up Oddcast:
- there wont be friend codes on the new console. ...I think Nintendo has learnt their lesson there.
- Mr. Kennedy says that he is sure of this
- Project Cafe is "Not just like a new controller"
- more to the system than simply a new input device
- Project Cafe will have a Wii vibe and high definition graphics, plus something
- Nintendo fans will be like wow
- "Will it play CoD better? No, you'll still want a PS3/360."
Miyamoto (the fucking Willy Wonka of Video games):
- Nintendo is currently thinking about a possible connectivity between the Nintendo 3DS and a future home console.
- Nintendo is still testing many ideas
- "I may not tell you, but to us it is of course a logical step to doing something with HD. The number of households with a HD television is now big enough to make an HD game console. And of course we are always busy anyway with the development of new consoles."
- "We focus not only on HD and the next system will feature something totally different than usual."
- "Yes, I have read rumours about Café. I want to say its normal. You know, for Nintendo, as with the other platform holders, our job is to create new hardware."
- "We think it takes five years to do interesting R&D. So, I confess there isnt smoke without fire. We always build consoles. Youll never see some of them."
- "you dont have to trust all the stuff you read