The Wii U is laaaaarge

[Windaga]

From the Nintendo E3 site

Size:
Approximately 1.8 inches tall, 6.8 inches wide and 10.5 inches long.

For comparison's sake:
Wii: (1.73 in) tall, (6.18 in) wide, and (8.48 in) long.

It's not that big of a difference.

Wow, I wonder why the WiiU in the OP's picture looks so long. That's weird.

There's probably something attached to it, like an external hard drive. Or there's just something behind it, and that thing is covering it.

Or it's just that long for demo purposes. Either way, the specs posted are Nintendo's official specs, so we won't have to worry about that. I don't really have much room for another console on my shelf - so I hope I'll be able to lay this ontop of my PS2.

 

[Gameplayer9198]

Unkown it may be made longer so it would be harder to still it ???

 

[injected11]

it may be a mirror

The lock on the white bar holding the console in place isn't reflected, so no.

Plus the back end looks to be a dark grey with a cable sticking out of it. Clearly not a reflection.

 

[Lucifer666]

Looks tiny. I can't see it being bigger then a 360 or PS3, so who cares.

THIS whole thing, is tiny?!

 

[jan777]

QUOTE(Hells Malice @ Jun 9 2011, 08:54 AM) Looks tiny. I can't see it being bigger then a 360 or PS3, so who cares.

THIS whole thing, is tiny?!

Look at above pic. The controller even looks bigger than the console.

 

[Lucifer666]

QUOTE(Hells Malice @ Jun 9 2011, 08:54 AM) Looks tiny. I can't see it being bigger then a 360 or PS3, so who cares.

THIS whole thing, is tiny?!

Look at above pic. The controller even looks bigger than the console.

There's no way the console he's holding is the same size as this one.
Something's really wrong.

 

[jan777]

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Probably a dev unit or something.

 

[Lucifer666]

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Probably a dev unit or something.

Hopefully.
I don't care about ugliness or whatever, but I'd hate to stuff that in the small space under the TV.

 

[injected11]

There's no way the console he's holding is the same size as this one.
Something's really wrong.

It's a close-up shot, at a poor angle for a picture. They look like the same console to me.

 

[Taleweaver]

This may explain why nintendo flat out didn't show the console in their E3 roundup: their promotional video was made with a prototype/development unit/beta/whatever.


If those E3 mentioned sizes are final, the wiiU isn't that large at all. Larger than the wii, yes, but still smaller than xbox360 or PS3 (comparison picture...not including the wiiu).

 

[Hielkenator]

Perfect size, according to my wife.....

 

[ilman]

OP's picture looks loke there is a charger directly behind the wii U.
That's why it's very long!

 

[iluvfupaburgers]

come on people, its the same. it just looks pretty long because of the angle the picture is taken. but take for size reference the disk tray, since a disk is circular, you can kinda see until where the disk should go in and how much is left after that, is not really that much. its almost like the wii pretty much

 

[dangerboy]

the console doesnt look much larger than the controller, just thicker. and the controller is just a little bigger than id expect a 3DS XL to be if they ever make those.

 

[omgwtfhax]

Take your Wii (or any rectangular object, like a book), and hold it so that it looks like the Wii U in the picture. Now close one eye.
It's difficult to judge the size of the Wii U in that pic because of the lack of perspective and any kind of reference object (the lock doesn't count because we have no idea how big the lock actually is).

 

[Hielkenator]

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[iluvfupaburgers]

Take your Wii (or any rectangular object, like a book), and hold it so that it looks like the Wii U in the picture. Now close one eye.
It's difficult to judge the size of the Wii U in that pic because of the lack of perspective and any kind of reference object (the lock doesn't count because we have no idea how big the lock actually is).

you can take as reference the disk tray. disk size are always the same. and i dont think the disk tray will differ in size as much as the wii or at all because of how the disk tray works, it has to be so a disk fits perfectly so there is no harm on it

 

[Master Mo]

In the first pic the system looks really large in depth. Absolutely too large for my taste.

But in the pic with Iwata holding it it seems perfectly OK... I bet it`s the perspective.

 

[Jamstruth]

I think I know exactly what's happening here.
Iwata is holding a dummy of the final, consumer level verson of the WiiU.
The version shown at E3 is a Prototype Devkit. Its got a bit more work to go on it to miniaturise it and a few more components for extra code testing. That's all that's going on as far as I can see.

THe controller still looks the same size as the console though.

 

[Shiro09]

It's looks so heavy