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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

An image of an updated Nintendo Wii U controller has appeared online. A QA tester for Traveller's Tales Games tweeted an image of a revised Wii U tablet controller, complete with a number of minor ...

The Wii U’s tablet had to be within a short range of the actual console to work, so you couldn’t take it with you to the coffee shop. This was in the day of the iPad and scores of Android ...

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.

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.