Rumour: Wii Successor is Codenamed 'Project Café'
Posted 15 Apr 2011 at 14:42 by Ashley Jones
The rumours keep coming in. Apparently Nintendo's next console is codenamed 'Project Café' and the controller will have a screen.
Gamers who hate speculative rumours should probably stay clear of the Internet until after E3 as it seems rumours about Nintendo's next home console won't stop until then. According to 01net the codename for the Wii's successor is 'Project Café'.
Furthermore reports claim that the controller will have a "HD screen" built in. This particular claim has been questioned by some who believe that they simply mean there will be a screen that appears to be of high definition quality for its size, similar to the 3DS , rather than a low-resolution screen akin to the Dreamcast VMUs. The rumours also state that the screen will be a six inch touch screen and the controller will feature a front-facing camera, D-pad, two bumpers and triggers and "possibly more". If you want your controller to do even more apparently it will work as a Wii sensor bar.
Other reports indicate that the console will be slightly more powerful than the Xbox 360 is at the moment, sporting a "custom IBM PowerPC CPU with three cores, a GPU from the ATI R700 family with a shader unit at version 4.1, and at least 512Mb of RAM" according to CVG.
While 01net broke the details of Sony's next handheld, the NGP, at the moment this should be considered a rumour. More will undoubtedly pop up in the next few months and we'll report only on those from worthy sources.