Wii U: Nintendo to announce more features leading up to launch

Published Jun 13 2012, 10:24 BST  |  By Matthew Reynolds

Nintendo will explore more Wii U features before it launches, it has been revealed.

UK managing director David Yarnton said the firm has not "announced everything" at E3 2012 and held back on discussing aspects of the new hardware as not to "overwhelm people".



"Well, I think we haven't gone into a lot of detail. I mean, we've got 23 third-party games on display at the show," he told Digital Spy.

"There's certain aspects on the control pad that we've spoken about, but we haven't really gone into a lot more detail of it because there's so much to talk about as it is, I think we would overwhelm people."

Yarnton later added: "I think that's part of what I was talking about before, about there's so many functions that the Wii U has, and it will show and explain to people why we have more features being explained as time goes on, because there's a lot to take in all at once.

"The biggest thing we've found is when people pick it up and have hands-on experience, and they start understanding a lot more of the concepts and the features - so very much sampling and getting people to try the product will be a really big emphasis for us at retail events and things like that."

The Wii U received a full specs and launch game list at E3 2012, and showed off a revamped Gamepad with analogue sticks and near field technology.

It has recently been confirmed that the system will continue to offer friend codes, but also offer non-mandatory achievements.

> Read our full Wii U interview with Nintendo UK

Watch a video of the Wii U gamepad at E3 below: