Pricing details will be available either before or after E3, but obviously some time before the system actually comes out. Many developers, press packers, and a few homeless people claim to have played or developed for the system, spreading rumors like a raging wildfire.

The Wii U may even be powerful enough to run Pac-Man, or Joust!

One anymous source claims that the Wii U will be twice as powerful as the Xbox 360, while another anonymous source (that I have totally just made up) claims that the Wii U will crap out rainbow cookies. I’m all for the latter. If the Wii U is only just capable of trumping consoles of this generation, I don’t have much faith in Nintendo to do any better than they did with the Wii.

So what does the Wii U have to offer us, besides an opportunity to “Taste the Rainbow” in HD? Capcom soot-sprite Yoshinori Ono seems to think that the system will do quite a few amazing things, some of which they won’t even be able to show on TV or print on the back of the game box! What, does it bleed all over your hands, or something? I can see why they’d keep that hush-hush.

Nintendo took their first annual loss in 30 years, last year. The 3DS must have been a flop then, seeing as the Virtual Boy and Pokémon were released in the last 30 years also.

Whatever Grin are planning to do with the Wii U, they will have to be cautious of the market and make the right moves. So long as those rainbow cookies are guaranteed, I don’t think we’ll ever need another console again.

(This recipe was modified from this recipe.)

Ingredients:

1 cup canned or cooked pumpkin
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose white flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla, and egg. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices, and salt. Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients. Add chocolate. Bake at 350 degrees until firm (about 12 minutes).

Anyway, we’ve got a great show lined up for you! GC newbie Matt Jonas, Nathaniel Hoover, Michael Gray, Elizabeth Medina-Gray, and myself all came together to talk about the recent PS3 price cut, licensed videogames, and the games we’re all playing right now. There are cookies, and there’s also a big twist: We all recorded our own podcast segments individually, instead of recording the podcast together on Skype. We did this because we wanted to allow people who aren’t normally able to join the podcast to participate—some people are in different time zones, some people don’t have hours of free time to talk about Mega Man, but everyone should have 20 minutes to spare at some point in their day, right?

Well, at least we got Matt Jonas to participate. Enjoy the podcast!

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