This picture shows one of the WiiU consoles at the tech demo stages at E3, the design may change in the final version.

This's how the WiiU control looks in your hands, it's not as big and unconfortable; early reports says that works pretty nice.

No HD mentions, but a USB HD peripheral should do the work.

It's nice that you got a picture from the console, but I doubt that will be the final model.

Nice, best of both worlds: fast internal storage and expand to usb HD or SD. It's Ur choice

Proprietary HD optical discs: good, shame it isn't flash... maybe next gen

Virgil Games (Darksiders) talk about the console:

Vigil also told us that they have several ideas on how to utilize Nintendo’s new controller – such as allowing players to manage inventory on the controller screen – but that many of these concepts were still in flux. "We’re not interested in any gimmicky stuff like with the Wii launch games, where it was basically like, this is exactly like a normal game except every once in a while you jab your controller at the screen to jump or something," said Vigil technical director Colin Bonstead. "I think the new system is better than the Wii controller in that it has a couple features that core games like ours can leverage and make use of."

At the very least, Vigil believes that gamers can look forward to ports to Nintendo’s new console that are not inferior to every other version of the game. When we asked Bonstead if he thought it was possible that the Wii U version of Darksiders II would be the best version of the game, he said, "Yeah, just because the hardware is more powerful and it will have some extra features that I think will actually be useful to people playing the game. With it’s controller, [the Wii U version of Darksiders II] might be the best version of the game."

God, Im annoyed about this new super mario game because me and my bro actually said that they could've put Miis as playable characters and NOW they decide to do this in a game like this? They are REALLY late with these BASIC ideas.

All the other stuff are fine... But I wanna know what this thing is capable of. I dont plan to buy it on release or anything until I see what it can do and what it has for me. A new Smash game will not work this time, especially if it's anything like brawl's slow paced action.

Looking good.. wonder how it's gonna work :P

Just so people know, that pic is real. It is on E3.nintendo.com

Anyone else think they may up the specs by next year?

Well, I like that we have that information now! But does the controller's touch screen support multitouch?

What kind of disc do the wiiu games use?