{"id":11360,"date":"2011-04-16T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"wii-2-details-and-hardware-specs-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11360-wii-2-details-and-hardware-specs-leaked","title":{"rendered":"Wii 2 details and hardware specs leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week reports of a planned sequel to Nintendo&#8217;s Wii <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/11333-Nintendo-reveal-new-console-likely-launch-2012.html\" target=\"_self\">surfaced<\/a>&nbsp;via Game Informer. According to Game Informer &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest games magazine &#8211; Nintendo will unveil a new console at E3 this year, which starts 7 June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The console will apparently at least match the processing power of the Xbox 360 and PS3, and will be an &#8220;HD console&#8221; &#8211; 720p of course, not full HD. Current reports claim that the console will be launched in late 2012.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to another respected publication, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/298230\/news\/multiple-sources-back-wii-2-at-e3-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a>, the console&#8217;s controller will feature a built in high resolution touch screen. This claim has been backed up by French tech site,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.01net.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 01net<\/a>. 01net earned industry respect when it released the NGP specs before it was even announced.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reports emerging claim that the Wii is currently being called Project Caf&eacute;, and sports similar architecture to the Xbox 360, but &#8220;a bit more powerful&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the Wii 2 will pack an IBM triple core PowerPC CPU, and an ATi R700 GPU with shader unit version 4.1 and 512MB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the touch screen display, the controller will apparently boast a front-facing camera, D-Pad, two triggers, two bumpers and &#8220;possibly more&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Nintendo will reveal another &#8220;big surprise&#8221; about the console at E3 in June.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anything Wii 2 related falls strictly into rumour territory for now, but given the sources, we are expecting an official announcement in the next few months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar architecture to Xbox 360, more powerful, and touch screen controllers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}