Nintendo unveiled its next home entertainment system Tuesday, a combined console and tablet controller that the company hopes will recapture the success of its best-selling Wii. Called the Wii U ...

Big news for Nintendo fans today, the Wii U, Nintendo's next-gen console that is expected to be released the second half of 2012, is rumored to be getting support for two tablets instead of just ...

LOS ANGELES--The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo has served as a coming-out event for Nintendo's newest console, the Wii U. With its finalized name confirmed, Nintendo has begun to offer a more ...

Nintendo unveils Wii U game console, with touch-screen tablet controller. by Todd Bishop on June 7, 2011 at 9:50 am April 18, 2015 at 7:02 am. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

The Wii U was unveiled back in June at gaming conference E3. The tablet-style controller features a 6.2-inch touchscreen, though only one is usable with each Wii U due to frame rate issues.

However, the Wii U’s hardware may not improve on gaming performance levels compared to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PS3, both current generation consoles.

Report says Nintendo redesigning hardware to compensate. Last year, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto impressed gamers with an inspiring tech demo of the company’s latest console, the Wii U. The Wii ...

Lastly, the new controller design contains Wii U branding. As GamesRadar points out, it's possible some of these changes are specific to developers' console units. Whatever the case, Nintendo will ...

The new Wii U console will use a cool, tablet-like touchscreen, but the development is already conflicting with the new Nintendo 3DS.

So the Wii U ended up as a strange hybrid—a tablet-like console that also needed a base station to work properly. Although, in reality , development doesn't seem to have proceeded that way.

The console is called Wii U, ‘for unique, unifying,’ said Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aime at the company’s press conference.