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, the ...

The new Wii U console will debut in 2012. It combines motion control with a touchscreen game controller. Nintendo says "it will change the way we play games". Jeff is CNET Editor at Large and a host ...

Nintendo is working on bringing multiplayer touchscreen support to the Wii U, meaning more than one tablet can be used at once. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but ...

At the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo unveiled the Wii U and the new tablet-like controller for the system. Many unknowns still linger about the system's functionality, but one question ...

Wii U's Gamepad is not a tablet, and is distinguishable in that it can do a lot of things that your average tablet cannot. That was the sentiment from Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime in a ...

I love the idea of the Wii U: about the size of an Iomega Zip Drive dipped in glossy black — a trifle bigger than the Wii, but still half that of the competition’s comparably desktop-like boxes; a ...

Nintendo's Wii U system has struggled to keep up with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It has sold 9.5 million units as of May since its launch in late 2012, in contrast to the PS4's 22.3 million since ...

Forget Nintendo’s lackluster January console sales, forget worries about dwindling interest in game consoles in general — Shigeru Miyamoto clearly believes in the Wii U, and he’s thinking well beyond ...

Apparently Nintendo plans to make the Wii U into a fully functional e-reader, among other things. According to blog Forget The Box, a Los Angeles-based software firm was approached by Nintendo about ...

Watch Dogs on Wii U will be feature comparable with other versions, Ubisoft Montreal has said. Senior producer Dominic Guay said all the game's "core" social features - such as allowing users to ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Overall game console shipments declined over 30% year-over-year through the first half of 2012; although these results do not signal the end of console gaming. The ...