Back in May 2010 we first began talking about the potential of the next generation games console war kicking off in 2012 and the initial announcement of what we knew then as the Nintendo Wii 2 in April 2011 confirmed all of the expectation. Tech data was thin on the ground at the time, but the implication that ATI would once again produce the goods with the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) was already clear signifying Nintendo’s plan to boost the power potential of its next games comes.
The first preview of the Nintendo Wii 2 would go on to progress soon afterwards as things moved accordingly with the 2012 release date blueprint that Nintendo were supposed to have set out for themselves, which would go on to prove correct. For anyone that remembers the launch of the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube or the Nintendo Wii, the anticipation has always been about the gameplay of the console and that was also true of the latest machine.
More precisely, the revelations have always been around the potential of the controller to deliver a new experience of game playing. The analogue joystick on the Nintendo 64 controller and then the motion censors on the Nintendo Wii controller were the big talking points for their respective round of the next generation games console war and we expected it to be a similar story for the Wii 2 at the time.
While no images, video trailers or specific global release date information had been released at the time of writing, the seal had been broken and it was only a matter of time before more and more was to be released about the Nintendo Wii 2. The talk from Nintendo was about a new way of playing computer games, but we didn’t really know at the time how far they’d push the envelope. Touch screens and a multifunctional controller were all just speculation that went on to materialise. 3D vision computer gaming as seen on the Nintendo 3DS didn’t make it through though, as was the case with our random, but genius suggestion of a wristband controller and holodeck simulation gaming. Luckily, we didn’t have too long to wait to see for ourselves what the big N had tucked up its short sleeves.
What we knew at the time as the Nintendo Wii 2 went on to be revealed as the Nintendo Wii U and the “new way of gaming” turned out to be their ingenious gamepad with a touch screen, off TV play and asynchronous gameplay options. Visit our Nintendo Wii U page to find out more about the console and previously released and upcoming games.
