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hey this is Ross with the verge and we're here checking out the Nintendo Wii U reference model this is not the final product but it is indicative of the experience you're going to have playing with it so what you have here is a 6.2 inch single touch screens resistive going around the sooner we have two analog sliders you have d-pad your general buttons Mike headphone jack what you expect triggers over here the other interesting aspect about this besides the fact it's you know it's got the accelerometer gyroscope the other interesting thing you have here is a front facing camera and this bar here actually acts as a wii remote sensor just like it does for the week so you can use this to get you know use the wii remote in tandem one of the things they show it off at e3 was I'm actually putting it down like this grabbing a wii remote and kind of playing golf it would detect your swing but right now we're going to go take a look at for demos these are the same demos they showed III so we're looking at here is chase me chase me is one of the wii u experiences in 10 wants to show off to basically showcase the new tablet controller what you do here is it's basically a glorified hide-and-seek so here's me so i'm gonna have this top-down view right here and I've got 15 seconds basically get out of their line of sight now if you look at the screen real quick you can see everyone's got its kind of first-person perspective of what's going on everyone else is controlling with the wii remote exactly remote you use mminton newly I'm doing with tablet I'm gonna be lookout in the tower he's coming down the red middle of rental alright so what will account now is battle me in which are our little samus aran's fight a giant spaceship which is gonna be played this time by me seeing as last time I got sadly defeated over and over and over again we use in floor I've actually got a move the whole control actually quite a extreme bid I mean my whole body probably gonna go a little bit with this as I am tilt to aim the joysticks here just serve to move the spaceship it actually doesn't control and uh viewing ok God you got to get and lows helpful oh look at a heart piece oh there you go so one player is out now and that makes two players out myself any other one so what were the count now is panorama view which Nintendo claims was at the e3 advantage unfortunately never got a chance to see at that point so this is brand new for us in a nutshell you can see on the TV is just a car drive and we think is a car driving along the streets and from here you can actually get a more interactive view where you can actually just kind of rotate see basically all sides of the street think it is like a real-time google street view and goes up and i can do it on the interesting is no matter how far I go down I can never ever see the driver in question also if I actually did rotate like this in a car I'd probably be dead at this point so the last thing we're going to look at is the HD experience what we're seeing here is basically an example of what do we use powers can be capable of whereas the wii was decidedly more of a standard definition console this time around antenna wants to emphasize it's capable of 1080p HD true HD graphics so we're seeing here is a very high quality legend zelda demo it's actually basically everyone's dream and when we first saw d3 everyone's question was is it's going to be an actual game nintendo won't say that but they will let you watch the demo over and over again we have a lot of controls around we can use the stick to just the camera angle ever so slightly but with a camera but we can actually completely dramatically change where the scene is happening additionally with the with light we can change the entire thing from 90 today and we're all this is happening in real time and you can see especially the nighttime you can see how the light is bouncing off everything especially nabi kind of flying around there the last thing to show around where you can see is where the camera were linked in with the bosses if we hit this button here will actually take the entire video feed and we'll move it here it's actually a mirror what you see on screen they moved the map on the screen as well but they also showing both videos at the same time you can see it's the exact same picture being output no change in the frame rate it's also very smooth lighting is gorgeous and there you have a list give link a break so that's the wii u controller nutshell again this is not the final product but it does give a good idea what the experience you're going to go for