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TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap

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And why would the SD card be listed as "expanded storage"? Who want to expand a cheap, fast hundred-gigabyte drive with expensive, slow cards, one tenth the size?

I can think of a couple of reasons:

1. For portable purposes (for example to take savegames and profiles with you)

2. To watch photos from your digital camera on the telly, like the Wii does now

3. To save and share photos, video or music you make or edit on the console

Anyway, I'd recon it'd be an alternative to the portable memorycard or USB stick solution like used on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

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And why would the SD card be listed as "expanded storage"? Who want to expand a cheap, fast hundred-gigabyte drive with expensive, slow cards, one tenth the size?

People who want to transfer their data from the Wii?

That said, I don't think those specs are real and I don't think Nintendo will bother including a hard disk.

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People who want to transfer their save games from the Wii?

I don't think those specs are real, though, and I don't think Nintendo would bother with a hard disk.

250/320GB is hardly huge these days.

They'd be foolish not to include some sort of mass storage. SD cards are more expensive than HDDs.

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I can think of a couple of reasons:

1. For portable purposes (for example to take savegames and profiles with you)

2. To watch photos from your digital camera on the telly, like the Wii does now

3. To save and share photos, video or music you make or edit on the console

Anyway, I'd recon it'd be an alternative to the portable memorycard or USB stick solution like used on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

People who want to transfer their data from the Wii?

That said, I don't think those specs are real and I don't think Nintendo will bother including a hard disk.

That'd be "removable storage" though, surely. "Expanded storage" is something you use to... well, expand the available storage.

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Also, that's the final spec for the devkit, not the console.

This could also be why those specs end up being more advanced than what's actually in the device. 360 devkits have twice the RAM of 360s for example, because they 512MB need to load the game into the console and 512Mb to load the debug tools up at the same time.

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I'm not sure if my body is ready yet for a Nintendo home console. It's still trying to heal from the huge emotional blows that were the GameCube and Wii. The shittest consoles of the last decade.

At least I had fun with my Wii and GC.

*glares at PS2, Xbox and PSP*

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I'm not sure if my body is ready yet for a Nintendo home console. It's still trying to heal from the huge emotional blows that were the GameCube and Wii. The shittest consoles of the last decade.

Horses for courses but I loved the GC as a console and it more than held its own (game wise rather than commercially) during a very competitive generation. In fact the majority of my favourite games of that generation either made their début or were exclusive to the Gamecube: Super Monkey Ball (the finest and most rounded game of last gen, in my opinion), Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing, Zelda: TWW, F-Zero GX, Pikmin 1 and 2, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, Beach Spikers, Paper Mario, Resident Evil REmake and P.N.03 to name a few off the top of my head.

I'm not knocking the PS2 or Xbox either, I had multiple versions of both and they gave me many hours of enjoyment but the GC was just as much of a joy and offered some cracking games you couldn't get anywhere else, as well as some of the best versions of multi-platform releases.

If the next Nintendo console can offer a similar breadth and quality of games I'd be more than happy.

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I dont believe that spec sheet although it would be nice if it was accurate, for a start sites like ign and Kotaku are reporting that the machine will only have 8GB storage from their sources. Still only a week to go until we finally find out. Also have to love the gaf for some of the gifs that are there :lol:

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http://thenintendostream.com/adam-sessler-talks-project-cafe/

dam Sessler of G4TV has said in an interview that Nintendo’s new home console is the top thing he wants to see at E3. But what he says next is more interesting:

I’ve been pontificating on what they’re going to do with it and I definitely believe that this is not a successor to the Wii. It’s probably closer to a successor to the GameCube, to kind of get to that core audience that Nintendo kind of lost with the Wii.

…and this leads into a thought we’ve heard before, with Sessler saying “I don’t think it’s there to replace the Wii. I think it’s yet another pillar in Nintendo’s arsenal.” I’m not too sure this will actually happen, but a large portion of the speculation phase is coming to an end, so we may as well bask in all its glory.

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They always say this. The DS wasn't replacing the gameboy, the 3DS wasn't replacing the DS. If you bring out a new "thing" people will usually stop buying your old "thing". It's just the way it works.

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They always say this. The DS wasn't replacing the gameboy, the 3DS wasn't replacing the DS. If you bring out a new "thing" people will usually stop buying your old "thing". It's just the way it works.

The DS was a punt in the dark though, it didn't shoot for the moon in its first year and the PSP remained a viable threat to it at the start. They even bothered to spend R&D money to complete the next proper Game Boy console (which has now been consigned to the shelf, never to be officially released).

Nintendo’s global president Satoru Iwata says the company did have another handheld gaming system complete at one point in the past three years, but ultimately decided not to release it.

And it’s not the first time the company has had completed hardware that it ultimately decided to scuttle.

“In the history of Nintendo, there are several such examples," he says. "But when we are launching new hardware, the most important is thing is to sustain the momentum. If introducing new hardware won’t do anything to do that, well…"

Iwata declined to give any details about the recent cancelled product.

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I've been thinking about this whole "Nintendo going for the hardcore market"- it's not exactly going to make the shareholders confident when they're asked "so... you've managed to build up a user base of 70m+ with the Wii... how do you plan on capitalising on that with the next console?". "Ah, well what we're going to do is say 'fuck you' to the majority of casual gamers and try and go for the exact same market as the PS3 and 360. Except with a slightly more powerful console."

Also.... if it is true about the whole single controller with a display while the console supports Wii motes... who's betting that they're building up on the Pac Man Vs style debacle.. I mean gameplay.. model shown years ago with the GBA/GC linkup. That never really materialised with the DS and Wii so they could keep it for the next console.

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Christ, I would love to see those hidden vaults of unreleased Nintendo consoles :o

No kidding. I want to see the other things from the desk of that guy who came up with the vitality sensor. I bet he has some incredibly distressing prototypes sealed away in a big yellow box with 'extremely hazardous - medical waste' written on the side.

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Nikkei confirm the controller will have a touch screen, console will launch in the latter half of 2012.

In advance of Nintendo's E3 press conference next week, Nikkei has leaked out details on the Wii successor. The report (registration required) mirrors much of what has surfaced over the past few weeks.

Wii 2 will feature a new type of controller that includes a touch screen. The controller will give tablet-like controls to games, tapping the touch panel to control the characters on your television, for instance. The controller can also be used as a portable game machine.

The touch panel on the controller is six inches. The controller itself has a built in rechargeable battery and includes a camera. The camera can be used for a variety of play opportunities -- for instance, a player making an avatar of himself for use in a game.

Nikkei says that Wii 2 will be released in the latter half of 2012. The site lists the system as "Wii successor console."

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/06/04/nikkei_wii_controller_details/

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