The Wii U: Nuff Said
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Rick
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The Wii U has finally been announced by Nintendo today, blowing my PSV coverage out of the water and into someone else's hands; you may say it sucks for them but I don't care, I'm the Nintendo Fanboy here. For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past.... hour or so, the Wii U is Nintendo's new console, pictured above, that has raised the bar in gaming. What makes this console so special? Perhaps it's the graphical upgrade to 1080P graphics? (Although specs for the console aren't available yet, it is rumored to be of the ATI r700 series however.) Maybe it's new online experience that Nintendo promises to deliver, or maybe its the way you play the games?
YES, like the Wii before it, the Wii U has completely changed the way you will play games on the console. How so? With its new controller! What's different about the controller this time? How about the fact that it looks like an iPad!
This is Nintendo's Future of Gaming
The Wii U has some serious potential behind it, but the details are limited so I'm just going to list them out to keep things short and sweet:
- 1080p support (no guaranteed specs though)
- 6 inch touch screen on the controller (SD)
- L and R buttons on top with two Z buttons on the back of the controller
- Camera on the top of the controller
- Backward compatible with Wii games and Wii controllers
- Wii U controller can continue gameplay while away from the console
- Accelerometer in the controller
- Better online experience and play
- No DVD or Blu-ray support
- A SERIOUS LINEUP OF THIRD PARTY GAMES (Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Darkstalkers 2)
- Some promise in the first party lineup (Smash Bros. talked about but not shown)
- Projected 2012 release
- No price point... yet
And to finish off this short update on the Wii U, here is the tech demo, powered by the Wii U, taken from the Nintendo Conference (courtesy of IGN). Enjoi.
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