Rumour: Wii 2 specs

Posted May 31, 2011 by Mark Ankucic in Industry News, News.

Photoshop has been the bane of journalism since its creation. Before we only had to deal with blurry images and misplaced thumbs, to which we could truly wonder if that was Nessie or Bigfoot lurking in the background.

Now we have to deal with people who can make pictures of Bigfoot waltzing with Nessie look realistic and believable. Having said that, Gamertag Radio have have stated that:

An internal document from Nintendo has surfaced on the Internet highlighting the hardware specs of the new Nintendo “Project Cafe” device otherwise known as the Wii HD or Wii 2.

The leaked Nintendo document looks…real, but I choose to remain skeptical, because that’s my right as a journalist and as a grumpy bastard.

So what we’re looking at seems to be:

CPU – Custom IBM Power 6 Chip (Codename Fox), Quad Core 3.5Ghz

Graphics – Custom AMD RV770 (Codename Wolf) 766Mhz

RAM – 512MB XDR2 DRAM (Main), 1024 GDDR5 VRAM (Video), 16MB eDRAM

Storage – 2.5″ 250/320GB SATA & Expandable storage via SD/SDHC card up to 64GB

Media – Custom Bluray & compatible with Nintendo GameCube Game Discs & Wii Disc

Display – Composite – 480i, S-Video – 480i, Component – 480/720/1080, HDMI – 480/720/1080

This would put the Wii 2/Project Cafe console in league with the current gen systems. What is really frustrating me is this 1080 at the end of the display. Is it going to be in 1080p or i!?

I guess we’ll find out at E3.

Tagged as Nintendo, Project Cafe, Wii 2