Nintendo has explained their new NFC technology set to be incorporated into the Wii U’s controller. The tech allows users to read and write data wirelessly, in a similar way to how Activision’s Skylanders action figures interact with the ‘Portal of Power’ reading device. The new tech will also, in theory, allow the Wii U …
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Everyone is still in the dark over the future of Nintendo gaming, namely meaning the sparce details concerning next year’s release of the Wii U? Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime has once again been outlining his thoughts on what it will take to make the Wii-U a success, in an interview with …
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Wii U can change the way players interact with first-person shooters, according to Nintendo EAD’s Katsuya Eguchi. Speaking in the latest issue of Edge, which is arriving with subscribers now and features an 8-page Wii U cover feature, Eguchi said Nintendo’s “very happy and excited” about the FPS possibilities with its innovative controller. “A very …
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EA is so confident of Wii U’s success that it has been working on games for the console for some time and has pledged to have titles ready for it from “day one”. Discussing the importance of launch-day support for consoles, EA Games label boss Frank Gibeau said, “It served us well on PlayStation 2 …
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Nintendo’s new console, the Wii U is unlikely to “dramatically outperform” PS3 and Xbox 360, according to Shigeru Miyamoto. Discussing the difficult balancing act between launching a powerful yet affordable console, the Nintendo design legend told GameSpot: “We’re very sensitive to pricing because people have generally only a certain amount of their spending that they’ll …
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The Wii U plays games that run on a proprietary 25 GB format, it was revealed today. As previously reported, that’s the same size as Blu-ray discs. But don’t think that means the Wii U will run Blu-ray discs. In fact it won’t even run DVDs. Speaking with investors and analysts, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata …
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Although Nintendo never likes to talk specs, its new HD Wii U could be up to 50% more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360. That’s if estimates from developers, who apparently told Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia as much, turn out to be accurate. So far we know only that the console will pack …
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For the past five years, Nintendo has ruled the home console space, and it has led the handheld category for more than four times that long. Now it’s hoping to bring the best aspects of both fields together. The company revealed its next-generation system Wii U at its 2011 E3 press conference, a device that …
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