European Nintendo Direct conference to be held Thursday, September 13

I’m not even interested in getting one, there’s zero reason for me. But it’s really quite ridiculous how there’s still no releasedate and simply too little information out. We still don’t know the full specs either, wtf? Correct me if i’m wrong but when MS announced the 360 at CeS years ago and during E3, didn’t they give a concrete releasedate and spec info?

The fact they are bothering with a European conference at all suggests we should still get it this year. Which is good.

I wonder if they are gonna come with some surprises. Their launch line up is solid i guess, but that’s about it. Too many games we already have for almost a year now (Batman) and ME3 early this year, and Darksiders 2 last month. Some people are speculating that they are going to surprise announce GTA V for it, that its the reason that the game still doesn’t have platforms. But i highly doubt that.

@3
People always expect surprises but they rarely appear. Wishful thinking more like I think.

#2

Indeed. Santa needs to have been informed that mine has arrived before Christmas, or else the stocking space allocated for WiiU games is going to be appropriated for useless things like clothes and chocolate!

Bit of a mistake making this the day after the iPhone 5 reveal IYAM…

@6

Shit, yeah…

Very bad timing.

Iphone 5 and Mini Ipad will dominate this months tech news.

Wii U could actually be an after thought for a lot of gadget sites, sad but true.

CPU:

“Espresso” CPU on the Wii U has three enhanced Broadway cores

GPU:

“GPU7” AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU. Unique API = GX2, which supports Shader Model 4.0 (DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3 equivalent functionality)

Memory:

Mem1 = 32MB Mem2 = 1GB (that applications can use)

Storage:

Internal 8 GB with support for SD Cards (SD Cards up to 2GB/ SDHC Cards up to 32GB) and External USB Connected Hard Drives

Networking:

802.11 b/g/n Wifi

Video Output:

Supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i

Video Cables Supported:

Compatible cables include HDMI, Wii D-Terminal, Wii Component Video, Wii RGB, Wii S-Video Stereo AV and Wii AV.

USB:

Four USB 2.0 Ports

BUT WHO CARES ANYWAY??? IT PLAYS PIKMIN 3!!!

Poly was that info confirmed?, and iam not tech savy here, those are good? i mean the memory seems good.

ooops, forgot to put in the source….not confirmed really but sounds legit to me:

http://mynintendonews.com/2012/09/11/final-wii-u-specifications-leak/#comments

@9
Except ram, nothing is well above the current specs.
The amazing thing is that , if next gen rumors are true, all 3 hardware manufacturers will use AMD gpu, which is a bit baffling. Nvidia is missing a lot of revenue if its true.

Specs are over rated anyways.

Most of my fav all time games are on old systems that couldn’t pass the mustard against todays powerhouses. Those games were fun then and they are fun now.

WiiU will be fine.

Hell todays systems are fine. It isn’t the hardware that disapoints me, but the software.

^THIS^

USB hard drive? Now that would be fantastic as long as it supported games and downloads, but USB 2.0? It really needs to be 3.0 surely?

@14

It could be a good way for them to save money on including one, yet allowing the customer to add any hard drive they have lying around.

But yeah, USB 3.0 should be standerd by now.