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Posted on Friday, May 20 @ 09:01:10 Eastern by Anthony Severino

Nintendo has done some wacky shit in the past. R.O.B. the robot for the NES. The Virtual Boy. The Wii-mote. But this new console -- Cafe, Stream, Wii 2, pee-pee, whatever the hell they're calling it -- is shaping up to be the most "out there" addition yet.

Touchscreens in the controller? Check. Motion functionality? Check. And now, a new report claims that the controllers will feature a front-facing camera that will snap pics of you while you game.

Yay! Now all three consoles from each major manufacturer have camera accessories that can take candid photos of me in my boxers while I get lazy on the sofa -- if I'm wearing boxers at all. Does anyone really want this functionality? Granted, Nintendo is pretty clever at finding ways to apply odd things to gaming. I don't doubt that they will find a way, yet again.

I'm more worried about the cost of this thing.. not the console, but the controller. I'm expecting the console to launch with a price point around $399-299. But if all the buzz about these controllers is true -- the touchscreen, camera, etc. -- they're going to be the real bank-breaker, costing roughly...

One... million... dollars!

Tags: Nintendo, Project Cafe

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: May 20th, 2011 at 9:48 am
I beg to differ. Nintendo is not "pretty clever at finding way to apply odd things to gaming." They are good at making retarted gimmicky consoles that are popular with a few people for a short amount of time and then stop being cool cause they don't have any decent f*cking games anymore. The only thing on the Wii that would really keep any serious gamer around is probably the ability to download all the old school Nintendo games... remember, the ones that were good? But then again, a good emulator costs nothing at all... The 3DS is on its way to joining the Wii in the no-one cares bin cause again, its all about the gimick, not the software. If they are already throwing this amount of stupid crap at the "Cafe", I dunno... history tends to repeat itself. I wouldn't be suprised to see a bunch of shovelware on that thing, unless they decide to open up to "real" games. "Real", by the way, meaning good...

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: May 20th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Looks like im getting naked for the wii 2 release lap play controller ftw?

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: May 21st, 2011 at 2:17 am
Why make trillions when we could make...billions?

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: May 21st, 2011 at 8:29 am
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU PEE

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