Taken from comments I found on Gamasutra: [QUOTE="Some dude with a fake name said"]"Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Bloomberg News, "We would like to propose a new approach to home video game consoles" with the Wii successor. He added, "It's difficult to make 3-D images a key feature, because 3-D televisions haven't obtained wide acceptance yet." " "Combine that with rumors about dual analog sticks and 6" touchscreen? And streaming games to the controller? Is the home console going to act like a server? And everyone will have their own personal controller/screen? This way you can buy a game for $10, for example, from Nintendo's online service. And it can be played by anyone in the house even at the same time on devices that only cost as much as a relatively cheap touchscreen controller. Streamed from console to controller. A home networking On-Live setup. A system with 3 or 4 cores each with perhaps more power than the Wii's cpu would seem to be able to play right into this setup. Possibly would also work on 3ds. Also possible for new types of gameplay. Easy setup of multiplayer where no one can see your screen. TV screen could be used as scoreboard and other more creative aspects. This would be in addition to traditional gameplay. There's also the 3d streaming to controller angle of course. Where would the 3ds would fit into this speculation? Not sure.

THAT! would be awesome. Instant DS multi-card play, via the controllers, for local multi-play. The catch the DS always has had with my family is I have to buy 4 copies of a game to play it with everyone, that's lame... and my kids absolutely love the iPhone stuff (it is simple pick up and put down sort of stuff) and it would be a blast to play those little games with them, but I can't afford 4 iPhones or iTouches for everyone either.

Regardless, the awesome I would get out of local-multiplay from this idea would be amazing. I actually would buy one of these on day one release. Even if all it had was another Mario clone. Image New Super Mario Bro's Wii without the annoying pauses and screen limitations that you get all playing these games on the same TV. If the controller truly has 8 buttons again and actually fits in my hand, the touch portion would be limited to a few things here or there... ah, the awesomeness continues. Point out that the 3DS 'is the controller', or one of the options to control into the Wii 2 and now I have a reason to get a 3DS (didn't have one before that's for sure), because I think it would be fun to get my Wii 2 control and games on the go at the same time... but that would require the 3DS to drop in price a lot... anyhow, thoughts? This is definitely the best idea I have heard about the Wii 2 so far. Online? don't care. HD? well, that's a given, but HD doesn't make a game. 3D? pass. Touch controller? pass. But the thought of Nintendo maybe staying focussed on local multiplayer has me all happy again.