We’ve heard many crazy rumours about the Wii U, specially before the official announcement by Nintendo (remember all those crazy names people were giving it?)

Well, seems like the trend is not over. According to some french website, the Wii U tablet could have a Android OS built-in into it.

We bet this is by far the craziest and mos unreliable rumour to have ever caused serious buzz on the internet and be related to the Wii U.

Our take on this?. This is highly unlikely given Nintendo’s past and attitude towards their platforms – from day one they’ve had a closed platform, only loosening restrictions when their hand was forced. This strategy is part of their success, I don’t see them changing it now.

In any case, we just have to wait until June to see if this is actually true or not.

Besides the Xbox 360 and PS3, Star Trek’s new adventures have some serious chances of making it to the Wii U, according to Paramount Pictures Vice President.

Brian Miller, Paramount Pictures senior vice president and producer said in an interview to Nintendo World Report the Following:

We are exploring right now all of our options to get on the platforms that make sense,” he said. “It’s early. Good thing we have a lot of time to figure that out, and over the next few months we’ll be able to announce a few more things.

Star Trek is currently under development, and even though it was initially confirmed to be launched this year, the release date was modified to the first months of 2013.

We hope developers start to announce unique titles for the Wii U and not games that are being developed for “previous gen consoles” like the Playstation 3.

Crysis hard-core fan?, Bad News, Crytek’s Director of Creative Development confirmed in an interview to Destructoid that Crysis 3 will never make it to the Wii U.

Despite Crysis 3 being released on spring 2013, way after the Wii U release date, the company seems reluctant to make a port for Nintendo’s next console.

The systems lucky enough to get Crysis 3 are Xbox, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Crytek is Working with The Wii U Dev Kit Anyways.

On June, 2011, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli told Develop:

Crytek’s support for Wii U is definitely going to happen. We aren’t showing it but we are pretty much running it already.

And also….

The specs are very good. It’s a challenge for designers, but once thought through it can add value, and that’s what [is] ultimately important. Our guys in Nottingham, they are very happy with their tests on the dev kits and they’re excited about it.

Crysis 3 Gameplay

So, even though Crysis 3 will never reach the Wii U, Crytek will indeed be releasing some title, not a launch title though.

Luckily, Nintendo changed his mind about releasing the Pikmin 3 for the Wii, since this is what they’ve kept saying since that console was released.

Not only Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that we’ll get to see the Wii U Super Mario in action during the next E3, but also mentioned Pikmin 3 as part of the games to be shown at the Expo.

Miyamoto didn’t mention any new feature for the upcoming wii u title, but we can imagine that the tablets will allow a lot of people to gather under the same room and have lots of fun, not even mentioning online gameplay.

Another Franchise That Has Long Been Waiting a Release

Pikmin 2 was released in 2004, that’s almost ten years ago, so it’s been a while indeed.

Announcing these classics so early before release might be Nintendo”s intention to create buzz, since they might need it in December, the console market has changed quite a bit with ton of people now playing only on smartphones and other systems like the PS4 and Xbox 720 being already in development.

It seems that it’s 100% sure the Wii U won’t get Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. All this according to Beamdog itself, which is the company that distributes the game.

What About the Developer?

Baldur’s Gate (which is still under development for the PC) is developed by Overhaul Games, but they didn’t take such measure, it was the distributor. Beamdog, has had some issues dealing with Nintendo in the past, and are good enough not to release this game for the Wii U.

This is what Trent Oster, Beamdog’s founder, had to say about it:

We don’t do Nintendo development. Our previous experience with Nintendo was enough to ensure there will not be another.

And here’s one more tweet…

My problems with Nintendo are: requiring 6000 unit sales before payment, a certification process that took us 9 months and a 40mb limit

Do you even remember when was the last time you played an F-Zero game?, 10 years ago it was considered a classic and one of the most successful Nintendo franchises, but since it so many years have passed, we are doubtful to say the same about F-Zero on 2012.

F-Zero Is Mentioned by Miyamoto in an Interview.

So Basically, the guys from Edge couldn’t help asking why in the world F-Zero has not been given a single chance to get a new title for the last 10 years, this is what Miyamoto said in regards to that:

“I think at the time it was a really big surprise, a new thing, a product that made sense,” he said. “I don’t see with current hardware how you could create a similar surprise.

“But maybe with future hardware, with Wii U coming up, maybe we could create something that does make sense, either as a smaller game, or a fully fledged title.”

So, as you can see, this is not by any means a confirmation for “Wii U F-Zero game”, not even a hint that the game is actually being developed.

Being April already, I guess we’ll have to wait quite a bit even after Wii U is released to see F-Zero hit the Wii U, is that even comes to fruition.

In an interview with a spanish newspaper “El Mundo, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that a new Mario title for the Wii U will be unveiled at 2012 E3. At last…

Not only that, we’ll also get to see some Pikmin gameplay for the Wii U as well.

So far, the only confirmed title to be a launched title for the next-gen Nintendo console is Ninja Gaiden III, which is awesome news for more mature players.

However, as Mario is the main game franchise for Nintendo, rest asure this will be another launch title, probably the default one.

It’s Official Super Mario Bros is coming to the Wii U.

After that interview, Nintendo released an official statement which reads the following regarding Mario:

In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U system will be shown at this year’s E3 Expo. This is based on the Mario experience that was demonstrated at last year’s E3 Expo. We’ll have more to announce about our plans for the E3 Expo at a later date.

Though is was failry obvious that any new Nintendo console has to have a Mario game right from the start, it took them quite a while to actually make it official. Maybe the just kept this card to make some buzz for the upcoming E3.

What do you think of the “Wii U Super Mario”, will it be 2D or 3D?. In case they go for 3D please make it look a bit more realistic and not as pixelated as in the classic Wii.

Firehazard, the developer behing the iPhone hit Saber Rider, confirmed recently that the title would be making its way into the Wii U

All this can be confirmed by visiting Saber Rider’s Facebook info page, among all the devices listed the Wii U is featured.

Saber Rider for the Wii U Screenshotsand Gameplay

We’ve previously talked about Dragon Quest X Online before, after Square Enix not only officially confirm the game was coming to the Wii U, but also stating that it will have gorgeous hd graphics.

And here we have one more feature for the next Dragon Quest installment, a screenshot sharing and taking feature, that will allow players to capture unique gameplay moments.

Of course, I bet you have seen this same feature in World of Warcraft, by using a simple print screen, but I guess that the developers behing Dragon Quest X consider it revolutionary enough to make it public.

According to Square Enix, the “photo machine” feature will allow you to create a journal of your battles along with your gameplay friends. How original is that……

Dragon Quest X Online Screenshot Feature Gallery

Want 3D and HD in your Wii U Tablet?, you won’t get it. However, after Nintendo’s latest patent fillings saw the light, they do indicate that Nintendo was seriouysly planning to add those features to the next-gen console

And not only that, voice recognition and facial recognition are other features that nobody knows whether the Wii U will have, but since they are mentioned in the patents, we can at least hope they do.

According to these papers, the tablet is capable of exchanging sounds and images, which brings the Skype app rumour all over again.

The patent mentions that the controllers allows other accesories to be pluged into the tablet.

So Why The Wii U Controllers won’t come with 3D?

First of all, though the patent does mention 3D and HD, they don’t confirm it, but just mention it as a posibility. Since these devices are already in production we just have to wait, but having all that into one console would make it quite expensive we believe.

SOURCE: Patent Filling #1, Patent Filling #2