For those who haven’t heard already, rumors of a new Wii 2 HD have been popping up all around the net. Certain Specs that have been reveiled for this new system have included:

• a Blu-ray Drive with a seconday motive to hopefully stop pirating
• 1080p Resolution support (wether upscaling of current games will be supportted is still unknown)
• a Worldwide release date in the third quarter of 2010
• a sort of trade in plan, where you would be able to trade in the original Wii for some sort of credit toward the new one.

Artik from Logic-Sunrise.com was the first to report on this and with more and more facts becoming appearant it is becoming more and more like a reality. Since this report more reports have been coming in as well as new info such as.

• 4 USB 2.0 Slots
• No longer will there be support for Gamecube controllers but plans on a newly designed Wavebird using usb and bluetooth technology
• Built in 60GB hard drive

This info was originally leaked from Nintendo’s french Marketing team and this leak seems to have run loose all over the net. It was only yesterday that President of Nintendo Iwata was quoted as saying; “We were unable to show a new game to become ‘the next thing.’ In the game market, once you’ve lost the momentum, it takes time to recover.” Wether it is real or not, only time will tell.

For those of you holding fast to the hope that you’ll get your hands on Square Enix’s next MMO, Final Fantasy XIV, before the game’s eventual release, it appears as though you’ll need to get your hands on a Windows PC first. In a recent interview with Game Watch, FFXIV director Hiromichi Tanaka said the game’s beta release will be on PC only.

Starting with a closed population of 10,000 people and eventually opening up to the public, the beta could be running at full capacity by as early as Summer 2010, according to Tanaka. Hopefully, by that point we’ll be playing Final Fantasy XIII — in English — and no longer cracking jokes about FFXIV releasing before XIII … Hopefully.

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