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The '''Wii U''' is one of Nintendo's home consoles and the successor to the Wii. It was announced during Nintendo's conference at E3 2011. The main feature of the Wii U is its controller, the GamePad, which has a touch screen, camera, buttons and other new features. According to Yoshiaki Koizumi, the Wii U was never shown to Nintendo's software development team prior to its unveiling at E3 2011. The Wii U was the third Nintendo console to be released in North America before Japan, the other two being the Wii and Nintendo DS. | |||
The | The console had been released on December 8, 2012 in Japan, November 30, 2012 in Europe, November 18, 2012 in North America, and November 30, 2012 in Australia. | ||
==Games== | |||
Three ''Star Fox'' games were released for the Wii U, one of which being a spinoff, as well as a fighting game starring [[Fox]] and [[Falco]]. | |||
*''[[Super Smash Bros. for Wii U]]'' | |||
* ''[[ | *''[[Star Fox Zero]]'' | ||
* ''[[Star Fox Zero]]'' | *''[[Star Fox Guard]]'' | ||
== | ===Backwards compatible=== | ||
The Wii U is also capable of playing the following [[Wii]] games: | |||
*''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' | |||
===Virtual Console=== | |||
The Wii U features downloadable, emulated classic titles from Nintendo's older library of games, including: | |||
*''[[Star Fox 64]]'' | |||
*''[[Star Fox Command]]'' | |||
==External links== | |||
*[[wikipedia:Wii U|More valid information on the Wii U from Wikipedia]] | |||
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{{Consoles}} | {{Consoles}} |