
The Gamepad comes with a near field reader, a headset port, a volume control, a camera, speakers, a touch screen, a TV remote, motion sensors, and a microphone. Well, the gamepad actually is an interesting piece of equipment. Wii U's bundled in controller known as the Wii U Gamepad has been widely panned as "gimmicky" with many users wondering WTF Nintendo was thinking with such a weird design. Spec Sources and More info: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4.
Game installation optional (mostly in ports).
Can download NES, SNES, N64, GBA, Wii and DS games from Nintendo E-shop.
Backwards compatible with all Wii games and controllers. Free Nintendo Network account needed for online play. Internet not required except for Nintendo Network and game updates (system updates available in all nintendo games). USB 2.0, four ports: two front and two back. Component/D-Terminal output always displays a full color pallet, despite this you can't mix the Component/D-Terminal video out put when using the HDMI output for sound to fix the limited RGB pallet issue that the system has when using HDMI when using surround sound out of the HDMI port at the same time. HDMI output displays a limited RGB pallet in Wii U mode when it uses a full YCrCb pallet in Wii mode. HDMI, Component/D-Terminal, S-video (Japanese & North American models only), SCART (PAL models only) and Composite output. Gamepad uses a custom made 5.2 GHz Wifi N signal, despise this less then the full 5.2 GHz output is used and can be used on a PC via homebrew. 2.5/5.0 GHz WiFi B/G/N native, supports USB LAN adapters (including wii/(3)ds ones). Supports external USB hard drives up to 2TB and SD(HC) cards.ga 8 GB (Basic model) or 32 GB (deluxe model) internal flash memory. Wii U operating system runs on a separate duo core ARM Cortex A8 pmerocessor at 1 GHz. AMD Radeon HD 5550 at 550 MHz 40 nm GPU. Tri-Core 1.25 GHz IBM PPC750 based 45 nm CPU.
2GB of DDR3-1600 RAM, 1GB for it's OS and 1GB for games. Don't mind how small it looks- it's actually 50% more powerful than the PS3.