Consumer research group Nielsen recently surveyed console owners to gauge interest in upcoming consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. While neither Microsoft nor Sony have discussed next generation plans in much detail, Nintendo has confirmed that their new system -- currently dubbed "Project Cafe" -- will make a debut at E3 next week.

Given the mainstream success of the Wii console, it should be unsurprising that Nintendo's next endeavor has been gaining a lot of traction. According to Nielsen, "buzz" for Project Cafe pre-E3 is significantly higher than buzz for Project Natal/Kinect at a similar point before last year's show. Consumer interest in the Wii successor is already more significant than what Nintendo was able to generate with the 3DS last year. Read more »