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The “new Wii” comes with a 6-inch plaquette-like motion sensor control that offers a full touchscreen and surrogate views of the game being played on the TV set. While using a larger controller to brown-nose a toy with games might seem cumbersome at first, the interactive options it adds can be fun. The new console also works with the model Wii controllers, as well as the Wii Nunchuk and Balance Board. It supports 1080p HD output, and the games in the demo were remarkably frizzled and clear.

But there are still more questions than answers about the Wii U. Its launch date is still pegged to sometime in the later part of the year, but verbatim when and how much it will cost is still unknown. And while Nintendo was the front-runner in motion-sensor gaming with the Wii, Xbox Kinect, in the meantime, has been location new gaming-console standards with its gesture-control technology, happiness partnerships and even basic voice command.

Source: All Things Digital

by Tara

Publisher: Hearst Books, 2010; 192 pages; $24.95

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