Nintendo E3 Press Conference 07/06/11 5PM UK Time , 9AM Local Time

[Wil]

Say Wii U 5 times out loud.

Kinda makes you feel like an idiot...

Makes you sound like a police car.

[Guts]

Brilliant. I really want to play games 6 months later on the Wii U than play on the PS3/360 versions.

Durrrr. Naturally only the first games on the WiiU will be ports of older PS/360 titles. It will certainly have new games as well.

[Neon Ignition]

Wii U's advert:

Wii U, it's for you... not not you, YOU, that's right... the father who's just been told to turn off the console by his nagging wife so she can watch Real Hustle"

[Ouenben]

Wii U is a new console: http://uk.kotaku.com/5809482/the-is-...sole-the-wii-u

The controller is the main attraction though so they're mainly talking about it.

[Team Andromeda]

Which pills did you take this morning?

Anti Hypocrisy

[abigsmurf]

It looks like something MS could've used for the next 360 re-design

[EvilBoris]

It looks like someone inflated an old 360

[parkinho]

Very underwhelming conference. Only Skyward Sword shown for the Wii (which did look pretty awesome)? Luigi's Mansion 2 the only new 3DS game shown? I'll believe all the new, exciting possibilities of the WiiU controller when I have seen them...

[Adam Stone]

I really dont get all of the confusion?! Why are people so unsure and confused?!

[Matt]

I don't get it at all. It's a console announcement where they don't tell you **** about the console. They show a pad that looks like the worse designed pad since the Jaguar, will cost a bit of money, and give you hand cramp.

I usually get very excited about new console announcements, but all I know is it has a pad that will cost ?50+.

I suspect the specs are 360/PS3 level at best so that's why they're keeping quiet.

[egparadigm]

It's not just that they wanted to emphasise the new controller, they also wanted to de-emphasise the console. They wanted to make it as small a step from Wii to Caf? as possible, hence Wii-U: fully backwards compatible with software and hardware/peripherals. Which makes sense since they're not likely to start a new generation ahead of PS4 and Next Box.

I think they were emphasising that most people would only have one of those new controllers – that's why all the examples had four others playing with traditional remotes – and it comes bundled with the new hardware.

It would have been good for it to be a little more certain: baldly stating there's a new console. However, what could we have really learned from seeing videos of software that's already available on similar systems?

[Guts]

I really dont get all of the confusion?! Why are people so unsure and confused?!

Because the presentation was a bit confusing?

[Adam Stone]

Because the presentation was a bit confusing?

hehe :-) Good answer

[Neon Ignition]

Bitesize for people:

-It's out sometime mid to late 2012
-The controller is not the console
-The console looks like a Wii and is the same power as a PS3
-3rd parties are being courted again

That's all there is to know for now

[Uli]

this must have been the worst new videogame hardware announcement i ever witnessed. Nintendo's PR executives managed to completely confuse their audience.