Wii U Console: 8GB Basic Pack - White (Includes Sports Connection)

Discover a wealth of exciting new ways to enjoy home entertainment with Wii U, Nintendo's next home console. With a revolutionary new touch screen controller, precision motion controls, and full HD graphics, a whole new world of play styles and gaming possibilities is on the horizon. The time is coming to truly expand your idea about what a game console is - and can be. The system launches in 2012 and includes the new Wii U console and amazing new controller.

Wii U Console: 8GB Basic Pack will Include:

• 8 GB memory
• Wii U Console in White
• Wii U GamePad in White
• Wii U AC Adapter
• Wii U GamePad AC Adapter
• High Speed HDMI Cable

A New Wii Console Experience:
According to Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, "Wii U redefines the structure of home entertainment by fundamentally changing how the TV, the game console and the Internet function and interact together", he continues, "The experience enabled by Wii U and its new controller takes players deeper into their games, while reaching out wider than ever before to be inviting to all kinds of gamers".
Wii U combines motion-sensing gameplay with the ability to support full HD graphics. Each Wii U console will be paired with a new groundbreaking controller, with its 6.2-inch wide screen. Previously, video games played on home consoles have been confined to the TV and offered identical viewpoints to each player in a multiplayer environment. The Wii U controller enhances that experience with different viewpoints available in-game and in differing games/game situations. Also, watching TV and playing console games have been completely separate experiences. The new controller removes these boundaries, creating a more dynamic and fluid gaming and entertainment experience. Examples of this new functionality include:

Within Single Player Games:
While in-game, the new controller can display information on its screen that does not appear on the TV. The information and viewpoint can also change in the new controller based on the orientation of its gyroscope.

Within Multiplayer Games:
The player using the new controller can have a different experience than those looking at the TV creating a wider variety of competitive and cooperative opportunities.

The New Controller:

In addition to its 6.2-inch screen, the new controller also features an accelerometer and a gyroscope, a rumble feature, an inward-facing camera, a microphone and speakers. Adding these features to the Classic Controller button scheme -- two analogue Circle Pads, +Control Pad, A/B/X/Y buttons, L/R buttons and ZL/ZR buttons -- will enable a breadth of gameplay experiences while appealing to both casual and dedicated video game players. The Wii U system can also use up to four additional Wii Remote or Wii Remote Plus controllers and is backward compatible to all Wii games and all Wii accessories. The Wii console has sold more than 86 million units globally and greatly expanded the overall audience for video games. Wii U aims to expand that audience even further.

First Multi-Sports Game for Wii U featuring the most popular sports worldwide; in a genre known for selling exceptionally well during the launch of a new console.
Sports Connection™ is a fun new way to connect with family and friends and play the most popular sports from a new perspective. Sports Connection is being developed specifically for Nintendo’s Wii™ U™ system to take full advantage of Nintendo’s New Controller. Play solo, team up in co-op to experience new gameplay possibilities, or compete in multiplayer to take full advantage of Nintendo’s New Controller.

Features:

Play six of the most popular sports

• Soccer, Football, Baseball, Tennis, Golf, and Karting

Touch controls

• Use the New Controller to control a blitz in football to sack the quarterback or score a curled free kick in soccer!

Play with Wii MotionPlus™ using real sports gestures!

• Swing with precision in golf or hit a home run in baseball.

Play both on your TV and New Controller

• Drive your kart to victory competing with up to five players (four split screens on your TV + the New Controller), or play solo switching anytime between the New Controller and TV!

Get inside the action

• Use the New Controller as a frame to scan and analyze the field to give insightful advice as a caddie in golf.

Play fun mini-games

• Try the Serving Machine Challenge in tennis and hit balls quickly as you challenge your friends.

Connect with friends

• Create teams, get rewards, accept challenges and share scores on the worldwide leaderboard.