Gaming hulk Nintendo has been display off its next-generation Wii diversion console, at the E3 games uncover in Los Angeles.
The much-anticipated console, dubbed Wii U, comes with a coordinator that features a touchscreen and camera.
The initial Wii console was hugely renouned but Nintendo has faced pressure from rivals with identical devices.
Nintendo hopes the new console will emanate a new genre of gaming.
Wii U will underline a set-top box identical to the first era console.
But the 6.2-inch touchscreen coordinator comes with a front-facing camera together with the more normal buttons of a Wii remote and a suit detector.
It will announce high-definition video and may be used to make video calls and crop the web.
In demos, the Japanese gaming hulk showed off a few of the things the coordinator will enable - inclusive gift users a in isolation shade to perspective gameplay data that is not common on the large screen.
It will moreover enable users of games such as Wii Fit to import themselves and obtain a read-out around the coordinator rsther than than the TV.
Users can moreover barter diversion fool around between the large shade and the controller, for example if someone else wants to watch TV.
Wii U is "an engaging new concept" thinks Dan Pearson, a staff bard at Gamesindustry.biz.
"It is a hybrid between a handheld with elements of inscription pattern but moreover has all the normal coordinator elements," he said.
"Initially people may be befuddled by the coordinator but so were they when the first Wii was unveiled," he said.
Nintendo was moreover interested to uncover off the estimate power of the new console.
"Nintendo has been beneath glow for chasing unintentional gamers and it is great to see them perplexing to win back core gamers," mentioned Mr Pearson.
Wii U will work with comparison games and controllers and will be existing from spring 2012.
There was no denote of the cost of the new console.
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