Nintendo not giving up on the Wii

Wii owners are quite unhappy with the confirmation of the Wii 2 being shown by Nintendo at this years E3. The lack of first party titles scheduled for release on the Wii for the first quarter of 2011 hasn't helped this growing sentiment. Now many Wii owners feel the system has been abandoned. However Satoru Iwata claimed otherwise at a Japanese investor meeting, with apparently a bunch of titles coming out for the Wii later this year.

"We have not released any new Nintendo software titles for Wii, except for The Last Story (Japanese Title) in January, partly because we have focused on the launch of Nintendo 3DS since the beginning of this year. Therefore, some in Japan seem to have the misunderstanding that Nintendo has given up making efforts on Wii. We are actually ready to release new Wii software titles every month from May to the end of this year."

Wii 2 to launch with GTAV?

Notice the drought of Wii games for 2011? That's because of the expected revelation of the Wii 2 at this years E3. Rumor has it the new console will attempt to capture more of the hardcore market and will be equal or exceed the power of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, sport 1080p capability, backwards compatibly with Wii software and have 6" LCD touch screens on the controllers.

Other rumors claim that Nintendo sent a Wii 2 development kit to Rockstar with the intent of GTAV being a launch title on the system. GTAV is expected to be released in 2012.