IGN said:

New details have surfaced from yesterday's reports that Nintendo is set to unveil its newest console, codenamed "Project Cafe."


According to our sources, the new Nintendo controller will feature dual analog sticks in addition to standard d-pad and trigger buttons. It'll mirror a Gamecube controller in general function but not in specific form.


French website 01.net has published additional details (via Develop), that say the touch capable screen on the controller is 6 inches in size, but we were unable to confirm the accuracy of the report. Additional details about the console's hardware specs could also not be confirmed.


Players will actually be able to stream game content to the controller screen from the console. It's unclear at this time what type of content it will be, whether it's full games you can take with you on the go, mini-games or applications.


At E3 in June, our sources also said Nintendo will show first and third party titles at the event, but it's unsure if they'll be playable or only in video form.


Update: Sources now confirm to IGN the new Nintendo controller allows players to stream entire games to the device from the console, saying it's like a miniature television. The screen size on the controller is also confirmed to be six inches in size.

A Gamecube controller with a touch screen in the centre. I don't know about you guys but that does not sound cool to me. I like the wii controller, I would like better fidelity so the news that its better than Move is good. I'm guessing it will be some split apart controller.

Six inch touchscreen on a dual analogue GCN-like controller?

gamingeek said:

French website 01.net has published additional details (via Develop), that say the touch capable screen on the controller is 6 inches in size, but we were unable to confirm the accuracy of the report. Additional details about the console's hardware specs could also not be confirmed.



Players will actually be able to stream game content to the controller screen from the console. It's unclear at this time what type of content it will be, whether it's full games you can take with you on the go, mini-games or applications.



At E3 in June, our sources also said Nintendo will show first and third party titles at the event, but it's unsure if they'll be playable or only in video form.



Update: Sources now confirm to IGN the new Nintendo controller allows players to stream entire games to the device from the console, saying it's like a miniature television. The screen size on the controller is also confirmed to be six inches in size.

A Gamecube controller with a touch screen in the centre. I don't know about you guys but that does not sound cool to me. I like the wii controller, I would like better fidelity so the news that its better than Move is good. I'm guessing it will be some split apart controller.

Hmm...so it's going to be a controller that is (logically) OVER 15 cm in size.....

The so called sources can shove that 6 inch screen up their ass. And so can IGN for believing this BS.

Guys, hope you are all well.  I am writing this at a cafe in London where I arrived in the very early hours of the morning.  I am catching the train to Edinburgh on Monday morning where I will be for about a week and then I will have another week in London (or thereabouts) before going back at the start of next month.

I know my presence here has been at a rather reduced capacity of late so you probably wouldn't notice my being away all that much but I thought I'd post this just in case as I have been in too much of a hurry over the last few days to write anything.

Enjoy your Spring/Easter breaks, those of you that have them and be nice to each other.

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I don't think it's the same as what I was suggesting it just gives the illusion via vibration type feedback it seems, it would still feel very different to a button since the screen is still a flat thing you touch to get a response rather than button to "click in". It doesn't seem to have much to do with responsiveness either. Maybe I'd be pleasantly surprised if I tried it, in how similar to a button it feels, I guess. And yeah, price is an issue also. I really think stick-on buttons could work out for reasonably sensitive touchscreens. It would just need to have a simple mini manual mechanicm that applies a certain pressure to the screen it's stuck on as soon as you "click" the button in so that it never accidentally goes off and it never fails to work when you have "clicked" it.

If any of the Wii 2 info is true I suspect we'll get some official word next week. This reminds me of how Nintendo had to announce the 3DS a few weeks before E3 last year because so much info had already been leaked out.

^yeah, sounds right.  I've been ignoring the specific rumors -- it's a waste of time to speculate.  It's good enough for me to know that it's coming.

Wii Too rumours: A Dude said:

According to the source of the info, a cutting edge AMD processor currently under development is being pushed forward for mass production by 2012 to use in a next gen console.

AMD is working on a CPU that will be used for a Console launching late 2012.




Likely candidate is the AMD Chip Codenamed Trinity.




Trinity is a 2-4 Core Chip based on the new Bulldozer Core technology that also has a GPU which is most likely around the 5770 in performance built in.




As of right now only 1 Game console is scheduled for a reported Fall 2012 Launch so unless something drastic changes the information would seemingly lead to the fact it has to be the Wii 2

The third APU, Trinity, is fabbed at 32nm scale with AMD describing it as being "based on AMD's next-generation Bulldozer CPU cores". Bulldozer is AMD's other x86 multi-core CPU architecture. For you gamers out there, AMD says that all three APUs are DX11 capable.

From Wikipedia:

Bulldozer is the codename AMD has given to one of the next-generation CPU cores after the K10 microarchitecture for the company's M-SPACE design methodology, with the core specifically aimed at 10 watt to 125 watt TDP computing products. Bulldozer is a completely new design developed from the ground up. AMD claims dramatic performance-per-watt improvements in HPC applications with Bulldozer cores. Products implementing the Bulldozer core are planned for release during the second quarter of 2011.

According to AMD, Bulldozer-based CPUs will be based on GlobalFoundries' advanced 32nm SOI process technology and utilize a new approach to multithreaded computer performance that, according to press notes,[citation needed] "balances dedicated and shared computer resources to provide a highly compact, high core count design that is easily replicated on a chip for performance scaling." In other words, by eliminating some of the redundancies that naturally creep into multicore designs, AMD hopes to take better advantage of its hardware capabilities, while using less power.

Bulldozer will be the first major redesign of AMD’s processor architecture since 2003, when the firm launched its Athlon 64/ Opteron (K processors, and will feature two 128-bit FMA-capable FPUs which can be combined into one 256-bit FPU. This design is accompanied by two integer cores each with 4 pipelines (the fetch/decode stage is shared). Bulldozer will also introduce shared L2 cache in the new architecture. AMD calls this design a "Bulldozer module". A 16-core processor design would feature eight of these modules,[6] but the operating system will recognize each module as two physical cores.


The module, described as two cores, can be compared to a single Intel core with HyperThreading. The difference between the two approaches is that Bulldozer provides dedicated schedulers and integer units for each thread, whereas in Intel's core all threads must share available resources, except for the individual thread state information.

Based on the information provided by AMD during its annual Analyst Day in November 2009, the Bulldozer chip code-named Zambezi (which belongs to Orochi family, according to the firm) will feature eight x86 processing engines (cores) organized in pairs (called a "module", which is invisible to the OS). The cores of a module share a floating point unit with two 128-bit FMAC units and two 128-bit integer SIMD units, and a L2 cache. Multiple modules share a L3 cache as well as an Advanced Dual-Channel Memory Sub-System (IMC - Integrated Memory Controller). Bulldozer is designed for higher memory level parallelism. AMD also states that the new CPU will feature “Extensive New Power Management Innovations”. The new chips that belong to Bulldozer’s family will also support “Advanced Vector Extensions” (AVX) that supports 256-bit FP operations

AMD Financial Analyst Day 2010 [23], revealed the 2nd generation is to be scheduled for 2012. AMD currently refers to this as Enhanced Bulldozer.


This new generation of Bulldozer core will be incorporated into specific desktop and notebook markets:

Desktop Performance market: Zambezi will be replaced by Komodo (6-10 cores).

Desktop Budget and Mainstream market: The Stars-based Llano Fusion APU will be replaced by Trinity Fusion APU (2-4 cores).

Notebook Mainstream and Performance market: Will be the same as mentioned in Desktop Budget/Mainstream market.