14 DAY TRIAL // A widely seen YouTube video which was rumored to show the first images of Project Cafe, the next home gaming console from Nintendo, has been proven as being a fake with the company saying that it will only reveal actual images of the new hardware at the E3 trade show.
The video was posted by a site called Strategy Interactive from France and was seen close to 700,000 times.
It seems that it was the result of a student project, created in order to get as many views as possible in a limited amount of time.
The European branch of Nintendo has officially said that the video represents just “purely rumor and speculation.”
The video attracted a lot of attention because it was said to show off the much talked about touch screen controller that would be at the core of the new Nintendo home console experience.
The console is also barely visible a couple of times during the video and the screen the protagonists are watching seems to be showing a number of technology related slides.
The fact that the YouTube video has no sound and is pretty low quality were early signs that it was not the real deal.
Rumors about a successor for the Wii have begun appearing more than six months ago and they have intensified after the current Nintendo console has begun performing worse than usual in monthly sales numbers in the United States.
Current information suggests that Nintendo is aiming to deliver a hardware platform that delivers the same amount of powers as the Xbox 360 and quite a bit more storage space than the current Wii.
Rumors also talk about a controller which integrates a touch screen, allowing the player to receive information about the games he is planning and control a part of the experience through it.