Nintendo remain confident about their manufacture and launch estimates.

Nintendo's global president, Satoru Iwata, is confident that there will be no significant manufacturing issues that will affect their business, and they are confident in their estimates for the launch timeline. 

He gave the example of a boom in smartphones affecting LCD production as something... Read more...

The Wii U is a dedicated gaming system.

The Wii U will not have the ability to play DVD or Blu-ray discs.

Iwata explained in an Investor's Q&A that since many people already have devices for watching movies, it was not worth the added cost of licensing the technologies for inclusion in the Wii U. 

So you'll have to keep your DVD player in your living room just a while longer.

Online could be very different for Wii U.

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo Global President, says that a flexible online strategy is essential moving forward, and working with social networks cannot be discounted.

Nintendo's past online infrastructure has been something that is fixed, but this is not good for developers, who cannot realise their... Read more...

It is not expected that consumers will want to buy a second controller.

Nintendo's current plans are to work on games that use a single Wii U controller only. This is partly due to cost, as a game that used two controllers would have to add enough value for it to be worthwhile for the consumer to justify buying another unit. 

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Is the Wii U more powerful than other current generation consoles?

Developers are claiming that the Wii U has 50% more processing power the other current generation consoles on the market. Arvind Bhatiaaa, an analyst with Sterne Agee remarked that, "Some of the developers we spoke to indicated to us that the console will have 50% more processing power compared to the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360." 

What name is Nintendo cooking up for their next generation controller?

The Wii U Controller has not been given a name by Nintendo yet. In a recent interview with Giant Bomb, Mark Franklin, director of public relations for Nintendo of America, stated, "Now, we're just calling it the new controller. Don't have another name for it yet."

The new controller, first show during Nintendo's E3 press conference, features a 6.2 inch touch screen, along with the usual host of buttons found on Nintendo controllers.

The free download will be part of Nintendo's celebration of The Legend of Zelda's 25 anniversary.

The upcoming free DSiWare version of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords is the Game Boy Advance multiplayer game that was included with the release of A Link to the Past on the GBA. We confirmed this with a Nintendo rep during E3.

The DSiWare title will be available for free to gamers in celebration of The Legend of Zelda's 25 year anniversary and will be released in September.

All five generations of Pokémon will be available this time around.

With Super Pokémon Scramble's release date just over a month away in Japan, Nintendo has opened an official site for the game today. Along with new information on the game, the site also includes the first trailer of the game.

Super Pokémon Scramble plays very similar to its WiiWare predecessor... Read more...

Nintendo has released a new trailer highlighting their new 3D remake. 

Star Fox 64 3D is due out in Japan on July 14, and in order to build hype for their upcoming 3D remake, Nintendo has released a new trailer that highlights the title's gameplay. The trailer can be viewed below.

Star Fox 64 3D is due out in North America this September.

The first Inazuma Eleven game for the Nintendo 3DS will be released this Winter in Japan.

Inazuma Eleven Go was announced earlier this year for the Nintendo 3DS, though no specific release date was announced for the title at the time. Today however, Level-5 gave a more specific release timeframe for their upcoming portable title.

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Japanese website Game Watch also speculates that the GPU will support Shader Model 4.1 and has a lot in common with the Radeon HD 4000 line of graphic cards. 

The Wii U graphics processing unit (GPU), provided by AMD, includes two different output modes, one of which can support generating graphics for the screens on two or more Wii U controllers, according to Game Watch.

Nintendo showed off the Wii U displaying HD graphics on a television screen while... Read more...

Nintendo plans an experience closer to its rivals than any system to date.

Nintendo plans to present an online model for Wii U that is significantly more sophisticated than the online offerings for Wii or DS. Speaking at E3 with Eurogamer, Nintendo UK marketing manger Rob Lowe noted that Nintendo recognizes that the online presence of a game console is... Read more...

Nintendo's French site offers details on the developers behind this MotionPlus enhanced title.

The French site for Nintendo's upcoming Wii Play Motion has revealed the developers behind the title's mini-games. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated that Wii Play Motion featured an "unique" development process where Nintendo collected ideas from various developers, asked them to build a prototype version of it with the help of Nintendo's internal development teams. From there Nintendo selected 12 games to be featured in the collection.

You can get the new MotionPlus-controlled game sans controller for $30.

E-mails went out to Club Nintendo users today that revealed that they could buy a copy of just the Wii Play: Motion disc for $29.99 exclusively on the Nintendo Online Store.

The game, which released today, is bundled with a Wii Remote Plus controller and retails for $49.99. The disc-only version can only be purchased with an exclusive promo code that is included in the e-mail to members.

Website addresses for New Super Mario Bros. Mii are included in the list.

A large list of domain names related to Wii U are now active and redirect to the main Nintendo homepage. The recently demonstrated New Super Mario Bros. Mii is part of the list. This is also the only Wii U game that Nintendo have released official media for, labelled simply "Wii U Software Images" in press material.

Crytek's CryEngine and Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 are both headed to Nintendo's next console.

Reports indicate that both Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 and Crytek's CryEngine will be able to run on the recently-announced system.

Among the list of third party Wii U titles announced during the E3 press conference were Batman: Arkham City and Aliens: Colonial Marines. Both games run on Unreal Engine 3. Epic Games' Mark Rein has tacitly confirmed that the game engine is in the works for Wii U, but has declined to do so explicitly. 

The former Team Ninja head's next game is slated for early 2013.

Devil's Third, from Tomonobu Itagaki's new Valhalla Game Studios, could be coming to Wii U, according to an interview with Itagaki on GAME Watch.

The former head of Team Ninja, known for his work on Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive, supports the concept of Wii U, and thinks it is a great idea for... Read more...

Reggie promises that third-party titles on Wii U will look at least as good as their counterparts on the other systems.

"Most" of the footage shown representing third-party Wii U games featured in Nintendo's press conference are apparently from Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. In an interview with Gametrailers' Jeff Keighley (at 4:33), Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Amie confirmed that the videos were from other consoles, and explained that it is because the system is "a year away."

The milestone took the 3DS nine weeks longer to reach than it took for the original DS.

The Nintendo 3DS has sold one million units in Japan thirteen weeks after its release according to the May sales report of Japanese game magazine Enterbrain.

The 3DS has been experiencing slower sales than Nintendo had hoped since it launched in Japan February 26. For reference, the original Nintendo DS sold one million units in that market in four weeks back in 2004.

Think you might have missed something important?

E3 2011 was a busy event for Nintendo with the unveiling of the Wii U, a packed booth on the show floor, and the meaning of "Skyward" revealed for Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. With that in mind, you might have missed something during the week but don't worry, our highlights here will ensure that you have the best material at your grasp.