The Nintendo Switch's release is just about a month away, and interest is steadily building as that March 3 release date approaches. If you're wondering how the Switch stacks up next to the Wii U and ...

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The Wii U Gamepad will have some limitations to its range depending on your room and house layout, Nintendo has revealed. In the latest Iwata Asks blog post, the Nintendo president discusses the Wii U ...

Nintendo almost dropped the touchscreen GamePad for the upcoming Wii U console due to cost issues. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told the UK Telegraph that Nintendo struggled with the touchscreen to ...

One of the main distinguishing features the Wii U has from its predecessor is the gamepad. Nintendo seemed to have decided that two screen gaming was so successful on the DS (and later the 3DS) that ...

Most video game fans aren’t using their Wii U consoles as much as they did a few years ago — if they ever bought the system at all — but Nintendo’s underwhelming machine still has a few uses, it seems ...

While the Wii U GamePad could be used to play games without a TV, it wasn't truly a standalone portable: It needed to be in the same vicinity as the main console. (Its games streamed wirelessly from ...

While the Nintendo Switch is set to begin its North American tour, well, today, I guess, we got some hands-on time with the tablet/console hybrid this morning. And what better way to communicate its ...

The Wii U was always in trouble. The press learned this fact as we sat up with our review hardware before the official launch, waiting for Nintendo to release the firmware that would enable anything ...

Nintendo made mistakes conveying the fact that the Wii U is a brand new console, director of product marketing Bill Trinen told GameSpot in an interview this week during the company's New York City ...

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The new Nintendo Switch has finally been unveiled and the question on everyone’s lips: Is this a significant enough upgrade compared to the Wii U? Let’s break it down… Note: you can read my Xbox One ...