Wii U confirmed for second half of 2012

Nintendo of America has insisted that the Wii U will definitely be out at some point between June and the end of the year, with more information promised on the new console before E3.

When Nintendo originally announced the Wii U at E3 in June last year they said the new home console would be coming out in 2012, although they never said whether that would be anywhere other than Japan.

After the mixed response to the console they’ve already hinted at changes to the hardware for this year’s E3, changes which some speculated could see it being delayed into 2013. According to Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aime though that’s not going to happen.

‘Wii U will launch sometime between E3 - which is in June - at the end of the year so essentially the second half of the year,’ said Reggie in a CNN interview at CES.

‘We haven't announced pricing and we haven't announced specific details. We'll share more information between now and E3, and after E3.’
It’s worth bearing in mind that Reggie is only talking about America here and it certainly wouldn’t be unusual for a console to be released in American and Japan first, and Europe several months later.

Although the Wii U was at CES this week, the show is not video game-focused and the demos were mostly the same as at last year’s E3.

The question now is what venue Nintendo might be intending to use for pre-E3 announcements. If it doesn’t host its own event the best guess is the Game Developers Conference (GDC), which runs from March 5 to 9.

Although GDC is not primarily a press event it does often get used as such, particularly by Nintendo - who has used it to announce new games for the last several years.



By GameCentral - 13th January, 2012
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/887304-wii-u-confirmed-for-second-half-of-2012

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