While I didn’t get any hands on time with the Wii 
U at E3 earlier this year I did manage to get some at CES in a private suite where Nintendo was showing us what they had so far and were willing to tell us or let us see and play.
No launch window was given yet nor were there exact specifications. The one sheet I received gave some generic specs. The new console is 1.8x10.5x6.8 inches.
The Wii U controller is 5.3x0.9x9.0 inches long. It has a 6.2-inch 16:9 touch screen and standard buttons including two analog circle pads, power, home, +Control pad, A, B, X, Y L and R and ZL and ZR buttons. Internally it’s got an accelerometer, gyroscope, rumble, camera, mic and stereo speakers. Again there’s a sensor strip and the touch screen controller comes with a stylus.
Again, they’re using proprietary disc formats in the 12-centimeter range.
Video output is 480i through to 1080p and has HDMI, S-video and composite out. There will be internal flash and an option to expand with USB hard drives or SD memory cards in a slot. It’s got an IBM Power-based multi-core CPU, an AMD Radeon-based GPU, 4 USB 2.0 ports and it’s compatible with Wii games and accessories.
