Great news, Wii U has hit more than 201k likes on Facebook!

Like it if you haven't!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/WiiU

HBO GO app all but confirmed for Wii U and possibly other Nintendo platforms (3DS?)

The following comes from a Time Warner job listing...

“The Partner Manager position is responsible for the day-to-day relationship and ongoing marketing activities with several key Mobile, Tablet, Connected TV and Game Console digital partners for HBO GO and MAX GO. Partners include Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Samsung, Roku, as well as any new partners that will launch HBO/MAX GO in the future.”

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178400

Cool. This is consistent with the idea that the Wii U will also function as a TV/Video hub. We learned a while back that Nintendo talked to a lot of various media companties and cable TV partners for video content.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/nintendo-courting-media-partners-new-wii-138387

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/02/rumour_nintendo_courting_comcast_for_wii_u

Treyarch: ‘The Wii U Stimulates All Kinds Of Thoughts About What’s Possible’
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/06/02/treyarch-the-wii-u-stimulates-all-kinds-of-thoughts-about-whats-possible/

Let's add some excitement to the train ride! A new rumor for all of you!

Another round of rumored info, coming from a supposed European development house with several Wii U projects in the pipeline...

- achievement system also allows you to gain points
- a certain amount of points nets you access to additional features

“We have a lot of freedom with the Wii U points system, we can add “brackets” for players, e.g. if you amass X points you get promoted into a new bracket with awards such as new MP [multiplayer] skins. It’s basically what we’ve been asking Microsoft to do for years. Players who earn points by completing the game should be awarded. We can do that now.”

- cloud storage will be “a few hundred MB”
- this will be free to all players
- once again, due out 2013
- social networking features like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook in Wii U
- upload screenshots to Facebook accounts, auto-Tweet game progress and record/upload game videos to YouTube

"They’re working on a UI overlay for the OS to add Twitter and FB notifications, but so far we haven’t seen it. They’ve reserved a lot of system memory for stuff like that. There isn’t much documentation about it in the new SKD, but they’ve told us it’ll be available in the future.”

- Nintendo Network on Wii U includes new avatars with a lot more features than the original Miis
- use the Wii U controller’s built-in camera to take pictures of yourself
- use these pics to create digital avatars that resemble high-definition Miis
- Miis can then be imported into games

“There’s an API for the camera to scan faces and turn them into low-res 3D versions for games. But it’s still buggy as hell and it depends a lot on the kind of engine you’re running.”

- porting current gen games to the Wii U isn’t as easy as originally thought

“(Games made on 360 will be) much easier to port to Wii U than PS3 versions. A lot less headache involved because their architecture is similar. Technically, you can just recompile X360 to the Wii U and it’ll pretty much run, but PS3 to Wii U is much much trickier.”

- latest SDK hardware is final, but the software keeps updating

“We’ve spent a lot of time creating our own tools for the X360 this generation, and we’ve already tweaked a lot of the tools to work on the Wii U. But if you code on the Wii U from ground up and have to use middleware, it’s probably gonna be tougher than doing an X360 game from ground up.”

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178422

Nintendo hosting special Nintendo Direct tomorrow! 3 pm PT/6 pm ET!
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178419

They are just being polite...but outside of Call of Duty, they aren't really doing anything else too special for the Wii U.

I wonder what they mean by ''concepts behind Wii U''. I hope they wont show us vague ideas of what is possible on wii u like they did in last E3 (like the ninja stars, video, ui on screen). We all saw that before and all have a vague idea of whats possible. I wanna see REAL stuffs, not what is possible. I wanna see if theyr is actualy be a video chat and how it will work. I wanna see real news about online and apps. If it will have steam or origin, if it will have cloud gaming and if it will have a OS,. And if there is, I wanna actualy see it. Also wanna hear about the social media integration.

And I know they said that the games will be at E3, but I wish they would end the conference with 1 game reveal, ending the conference with a bang.

Thanks, Pokemonbrawlvg, for the links! I needed some news and this hit the spot!

Odd news. It seems Nintendo is sending out viral phone calls to video game journalists. This is what is sent:

"Have you heard of the Wii U? If not, you will."
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/06/03/is-u-will-the-wii-us-slogan/

So is the slogan: "U Will"?