E3 2012: Nintendo releases Wii U tech specs, GamePad has 3-5 hour battery
Nintendo is never one for releasing full on technical specifications of their consoles and the Wii U is no exception. Nintendo has released what they’re calling the technical specs but its mainly for the dimensions, what cords and ports it supports, controllers and the battery life of the Wii U Game Pad.
It isn’t great news either. It will take about 2 and a half hours to charge the controller with about 3-5 hours game time expected from it depending on the brightness of the screen. Luckily this one isn’t in 3D then.
So what about the meat and bones of the console, what makes it tick? Well the CPU is listed as a IBM multi-core CPU and for the graphics a AMD Radeon HD GPU is supplying the power. That’s about specific as Nintendo is going to get in that regard.
Good news is though that the console is indeed in HD, it supports 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and even 480i. It outputs this through a HDMI cable or component.
There’s four USB ports on the system, two on the front and you guessed it two on the back. As for internal memory? Flash memory is mentioned but not the size of it, so Nintendo will leave us to worry about that one then.
Hopefully now with the cat out of the bag in regards to E3 we will see more specific announcements about the systems features in the future.
So what cable is coming in the box HDMI or component?
Hopefully we’ll be able to charge while playing.I suppose it’s not that bad, Ninty will eventually release a new controller with better battery life and such, and unlike the 3ds, we”l be able to upgrade without buying a whole new system.
Uh.. is that an xbox controller in photos 13 & 14…?
Hopefully a HDMI cable. But I doubt it. What happened to Nintendo and battery life these days? The 3DS is shocking and now this Gamepad. I suppose I will get used to it. Im also also hoping I could use an external flash drive as opposed to an SD card for eShop games.