Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo has unveiled a brand new games console at this year's E3 gaming conference. It's called the Wii U, and it's a new home console with a peculiar tablet-style controller that you grip with two hands. It succeeds the company's existing Wii console, and while we've not yet had the benefit of a hands-on with the Wii U system, we've collected all the specs and information here for your perusal, so read on for all the facts, and our thoughts. There's no precise release date for the Wii U yet, but it'll be launching at some point between April and December 2012. Here's how it works. There's a brand new console that very much resembles the current Wii -- a small, white, rounded box that'll fit snugly into your home AV setup. Unlike the current Wii, it's capable of outputting video in HD via HDMI, so the Wii U could -- judging by some of the demos on show -- offer games as visually impressive as those on the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. The new console stores everything on internal Flash memory which you can boost using an SD card, or a USB stick. It plays optical disks, and is backward compatible with Wii games, so your collection of Wii titles won't become obsolete.