Nintendo Wii U – New Console with Touchscreen Controller
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Introducing the Nintendo Wii U – Nintendo’s much anticipated addition to the console wars, unveiled today at the E3 conference.
Nintendo innovation
Nintendo, the consummate innovator, has introduced groundbreaking features and ideas to the gaming world over the years. They were the first to master and market a wildly popular handheld gaming system (Game Boy), to introduce the concept of force feedback (Rumble Pak), and more recently reasserting it’s innovative dominance on handhelds with dual screen & 3d handheld gaming systems (DS, 3Ds) and perhaps most paradigm shifting – they introduced a completely new, totally immersive method of gaming by integrating the players physical movements & gestures into gameplay (wii).
Not content to be innovators of the past, Nintendo is once again introducing a new interface concept with its touchscreen controller.
The new Nintendo Wii U controller
While there are a number of improvements and changes to the platform perhaps the most striking innovation with the Wii U is the unique touchscreen controller.
The incredibly versatile touchscreen controller includes a varied feature/control set including a microphone, a gyroscope, accelerometers, dual analog controls, two shoulder buttons & two trigger buttons, an integrated camera for video chatting. Gameplay could potentially consist of a combination of traditional button mashing & stick toggling, touchscreen tapping & gestures, and physical movements.
If Nintendo got us off the couch with the Wii, the Wii U brings some of that gameplay back to the couch. Oh and ALL of the Nintendo Wii games, controllers and accessories are 100% compatible – so you can still play tennis to your hearts content or at least until you toss your wand through your $5000 TV.
Check out the new Nintendo Wii U controller in action…
What about the Nintendo Wii U graphics?
While the Wii graphics were not quite on par with other consoles of the era (Xbox 360, PS3) the new Wii U boasts some pretty stout technology improvements to allow for more flawless video rendering and more processing power. Check out this graphics demo also shown at the E3 conference.
Pretty impressive eh? Not what we’ve come to expect from Nintendo the last few years – does this open the door for a ton of new game possibilities for the Wii U that we didn’t see on the Wii? Yes it does.
Will there be any Nintendo Wii U Games?
With all of the improvements it’s no surprise that more developers than ever are jumping on the Nintendo bandwagon. Check out some of these titles launching Wii U ready.
- Tekken
- Arcam Asylum (Batman)
- Darksiders II
- Assassins Creed
- Ghost Recon Online
- Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge
- Dirt
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Metro: Last Light
And a slew of top game developers have pledged their support and have added Nintendo Wii U to their production list for future games including
- EA Sports
- Vicarious Visions
- THQ
- Ubisoft
- Warner Bros
- 5th Cell
- Namco Bandai
- Irrational Games
- Disney
- EA Games
So there won’t be a shortage of top game titles on the Wii U platform. This is perhaps one of the biggest shifts for the platform since alienating a certain set of gamers for the last 5 years – can they win us back?
Check out more details on upcoming Wii U games at 1up.com
Your thoughts on the Nintendo Wii U?
So there you have it – a first sneak peak at the official Nintendo Wii U introduction – your thoughts..?
4 comments so far, join the conversation
Okay… that’s a little weird but I’ll bite – how much is this thing gonna cost me..?
haha, I said the same thing “kinda weird”. But, I said the same thing about Wii when it first came out and now I have one hooked up to my monitor and really like it.
I find myself saying this a lot lately, but gaming is constantly changing and I feel for the better! Even though i’m not too keen on the “hey, let’s play wii and move around, swing, sweat, jump up and down and all that fun stuff”‘ kinda thing but either way, the technology is genius.
Thanks for putting this together @AzAkers – really useful having one central location for EVERYTHING when you have little time to dive-in and find all this stuff yourself.
PS. yes, you can call me a “lazy gamer”
I like wii for like about 2 hours or whatever it got reel boring reel fast like for real
I still play it when like my sisters are home but mostly i play my playstation3 accept when it the network was down i played the wii some
this looks cool but its probabley to be expensive cuz its like 2 games in one
wish I could win one that would be tight
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