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Posted on 14 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 0 comments

I only include the images that actually made sense and didn’t just have a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo in them. You can check out all the images here if you’re one of those “intellectual” types. 😛

Enjoy!

Posted on 14 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

If you’re a patient reader, check out the full PDF here. If you’d rather just get the bulletpoints, here’s what I gather from it:

– ‘Parent’ device and ‘Child’ devices
– ‘Child’ device connects to ‘Parent’ devices to stream data/games
– ‘Child’ device can communicate with multiple ‘Parent’ devices, receive identification date
– A sort of “GBA+Gamecube” without the cords
– ‘Child’ device houses game cartridge, can be detached from ‘Parent’ device
– ‘Child’ device can send requests to ‘Parent’ devices for data transfers
– Multiple ‘Child’ devices meant to be used at the same time in constant communication
– Has a sort of ‘Download Play’ option
– Uses Bluetooth for communication
– Mario Kart and F-Zero are mentioned multiple times throughout the patent
– Uses very confusing language, such as ‘thereby’, ‘wherein’, etc (ie, ‘patent speak’ that makes it real hard to read)

Okay, maybe I sort of just added that last one for kicks. The point here is that we’ve essentially confirmed a lot of the speculation that a 3DS-like device would be used to control Café, and can break off from being just a controller to play games on its own. Note that I got kind of bored reading all of that confusing patent-speak, so if you go through and read it yourself, post any info I missed here!

Of course, take all patents with a grain of salt- just because Nintendo patented it, doesn’t mean it’ll for sure happen! We’ll find out all the details at E3…

Via NeoGaf

Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, News, Wii | 0 comments

Junior Mystery Quest (DS) – E
ATV Xtreme World Challenge (DS) – E
PINBALL Hall of Fame – The Williams Collection 3D (3DS) – E10+
Rival Turf! (Wii) – E10+
Mahjong Cub3D (3DS) – E
Extreme Hangman 2 (DSi) – E10+
Wipeout 2 (DS) – E
Cave Story 3D (3DS) – E10+
Gunslingers (Wii) – T
Sudoku Premier Edition (3DS) – E
Disney Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (DS) – E
Jewel Time Deluxe (DS) – E
Paws & Claws Pampered Pets 2 (DS) – E

Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, Screenshots, Wii | 0 comments

Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News | 0 comments

Thanks to Rafa L for the tip!

Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

This information comes from Satoru Iwata…

“It became difficult for developers to surprise customers with the current Wii.”

Surprises have always been a big deal for Nintendo. This makes me wonder what surprises they have in store for Project Cafe.

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Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

There’s one thing we know about Project Cafe’s release date for sure: it won’t be released in the early part of 2012. Satoru Iwata confirmed that Nintendo will not release Project Cafe until after April of next year. Some rumors have said that the console could ship in mid-October, though the company may very well wait until November. Then again, perhaps Nintendo will surprise everyone and launch the system in the summer.

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Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, News, Wii | 0 comments

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Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

Thanks to Thomas N for the tip!

Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

A couple of additional quotes have been picked up from a Nintendo news conference held in Japan earlier today. President Satoru Iwata commented on the console in general, explaining that “We would like to propose a new approach to home video game consoles.”

Iwata also seemed to address the topic of 3D gaming. Although 3D is a very significant element of Nintendo’s latest handheld sensation, it doesn’t sound like Nintendo will be implementing such a feature for Project Cafe. Iwata noted that “It’s difficult to make 3-D images a key feature, because 3-D televisions haven’t obtained wide acceptance yet.” This is something that Nintendo has pointed out previously, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise.

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