Nintendo will try to woo core gamers with Wii U

Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: EntertainmentOvernight Nintendo confirmed the European, and therefore Australian and New Zealand Wii U launch details.  Nintendo’s high definition gaming console will hit Antipodean shores in two forms this November.

Nintendo will finally make its Wii U available to customers this November, after having previewed the next-gen console for over a year now, the company announced at a press event today. The Wii U will come in a $299.99 Basic version in white with 8GB of onboard storage, and a 32GB Deluxe model in black for $349.99. It’ll hit the U.S.

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo show in Los Angeles, Nintendo has revealed the snazziest piece of new gaming hardware the show has to offer.  Powering up the Wii to high definition levels and introducing a game changing controller that provides an alternate view for each gaming experience.  The Wii U and new touch-screen based controller may silence the Nintendo nay-says.

The DSi XL is the supersized hand-held gaming device from Nintendo.  Launching next month Nintendo are hoping to grab a whole new demographic under their influence.  Today Nintendo Australia announced the DSi XL pricing.

The Nintendo Wii U launches on November 18 with the support of 23 games.

Perhaps poor marketing is holding back Wii U sales for Nintendo. As Spike TV’s GTTV host Geoff Keighley noted on Twitter, a new campaign from Nintendo is using flyers to show just how awesome the Wii U is. Except, instead of going after console rivals Nintendo decided to aim its attack at its own, older-generation console the Wii.

Nintendo has announced that it will release an updated version of the Wii gaming console in 2012.

Nintendo has released a very brief pre E3 teaser announcement referring to a revamped version of the mega-selling DS hand-held gaming device.  The 3DS, a temporary name, jumps on the 3D vision band wagon, purporting to  give gamers on the move an experience in the 3rd dimension without the need for special goggles.

When I plug in my Rock Band drum set receiver to my laptop, it automatically attaches as a joystick, plus an emulated keyboard and mouse.

michael@challenger:~$ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=14 [slave pointer (2