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As we get closer to E3 and the promised unveiling of Nintendo’s mysterious Project Cafe, the air is thick with rumours. Fortunately, there are people who have carefully collated all the news that’s fit to print.

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Nintendo has started sending out invitations to their E3 2011 press conference, confirming that it’ll be held on June 7 at the Nokia Theater.

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Nintendo Japan has confirmed its next console will launch in calendar year 2012, and will be announced and playable at E3 this year.

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Nintendo’s rumoured “Project Cafe” has spawned its first probably-completely-fake design documents, while analysts predict the new console will distance itself from the Wii brand.

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Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country Returns dev Retro is already at work on a game for Wii’s successor, an online report claims.

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Nintendo has reportedly sanctioned a $10 price drop on best-sellers Wii Sports Resort and Wii Party, adding weight to talk of an impending successro to the little console that could.

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Following a strong rumour that Nintendo’s next console has been shown to developers and will hit at E3, new details claim the machine is “significantly” more powerful than both 360 and PS3, and is codenamed “Project Café”.

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So 3D, huh? Nintendo love a bit of that. But not for home consoles, according to Reggie Fils-Aime.

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EA Games’ Frank Gibeau has expressed his opinion that the Wii is well past its prime, and predicted a new Nintendo console.

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Wedbush Morgan analyst boss Michael Pachter has laid the boot into Nintendo in the wake of this week’s 3DS launch announcements, saying the Kyoto firm was missed its chance with a next-gen Wii.

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THQ core boss Danny Bilson has told Eurogamer “it would be horrible” if new hardware appeared now.

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Metroid creator Yoshio Sakamoto’s all about the shocks, apparently.

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Grasshopper Manufacture’s Goichi Suda has told 1UP that No More Heroes 2 would be the last game in the series on Wii, until the next version of the console is released.

“Looking at the Wii, I think No More Heroes 2 will probably be the last iteration for this current platform,” he told the site. “But there’s probably going to be a “Wii 2″ or other next-gen system from Nintendo at some point, so I was saying that I would want to do another game in the series on the next Nintendo platform.

“I want to continue the No More Heroes series, but I’ve finished the story for Travis. It’s completely finished in No More Heroes 2. So I want to think of a different story — a different character, or something like that within the series — starting on the next Nintendo platform.”

There’s loads more of Suda goodness through the link there.

When will Wii 2 happen? When it’s “interesting” enough, apparently.

“We do not think that Nintendo DS and Wii will last forever. Our internal hardware teams are always researching and working on new hardware so that we can launch them whenever we find a very interesting idea,” said Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, speaking in a recent investor call.

“You may not be able to believe this, but even when Nintendo has completed a hardware, it does not mean that we will surely launch it,” he added.

“[New] hardware is not needed until the time our software developers see the end in making new software with the existing hardware, or unless we have no more new market to explore and all the potential consumers have purchased our hardware,” Iwata said.

Thanks, EG.