Sony Unveils the Wii U 

Why didn't just make a new vita..

One great thing about the WiiU was that it was fully backwards compatible with the Wii. It had a transfer function that moved all your Wii games, save data, etc to the WiiU, essentially replacing that console entirely. I wish all consoles had that function. Imagine having a PS4 menu within the PS5.

The WiiU was basically a switch for me during the years where I travelled often and had the equivalent of a single bed's worth of space for months at a time. The WiiU allowed me to play console games when no other solution would have worked at the time.

The rare Wii U games that used the controller in a unique way were great.

Anybody who owned a Wii U would know just how awesome it was. Like yeah the tablet was tethered to the console but playing Black Ops 2 with a friend while one played on the tablet and the other on the screen was such an awesome idea. Same thing other games like Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate where you could assign commands to the tablet including messages. You could even use the touchscreen to type. The console had almost no support but for what was playable it was amazing.

I had to Google what the Wii U was when I was in a best buy ON LAUNCH WEEK with a shelf full of them. I had literally no idea it was a thing let alone for sale.

I honestly loved the Wii U because as a kid I could play my games just using the gamepad, while my parents used the TV for things like the news etc. So I can see this as being really appealing to a younger audience in the same boat as I was. That said, I don't see young kids as the target audience here, and this will likely be a very expensive add-on, versus something that was included in the box.

im with luke, i loved the wii U, it was a severely misunderstood console but had so many unique experiences

We bought a Wii U after it floundered for the sole intent of playing exclusive Wii (which we never owned) and Wii U games, and selling it afterwards before the games were remade on Switch. The sad thing is, I much preferred the Wii U over the Switch. The controller concept was awesome, especially when playing games like Xenoblade Chronicles X, turning off the TV, and playing the game exclusively on the pad. Much like Luke's friends, I and everyone else I knew initially thought the Wii U was just a controller for the Wii. Only after looking it up, after it more or less failed, did I find out that it was a new system.

Imagine a version of the wii u, where you could have multiple of the screen controller connected to the same console, and the possibilities it could have opened up in couch co-op or multiplayer games.

people tend to forget that playstation did this with the vita, for the PS3 and PS4 mind you!, it is such a shame Sony literally butchered any hope of selling that thing with how god awful their marketing was, worse than the wii u by a huge margin imo, most of my friends thought it was just a really expensive controller for the longest time. such a powerful little thing, especially for it's time, the fact it's not too far off the switch in performance despite being almost 6 years older and infinitely more compact, makes it such a missed opertunity imo, they even have a OLED screen, i used to use mine extensively, especially for emulation, only stopped using it as much once i got my steam deck.

The funny part about this, is I literally just dug out my Wii U and hooked it up. It’s super nice because it’ll do OG Wii games, and Wii U games too. I used that controller a good bit for the default games in a dual screen mode, but I never really used it as a “portable game pad screen” I wish that there’d be a way to play Wii games on a Switch natively (especially if it had upscaling!).

I loved the Wii U. Splatoon and Nintendo Land are so severely underrated games, especially to play with friends, even nowadays as titles. They are some of Nintendo's best stuff

Man, Wii U is one of my fav consoles. I still occasionally use it to this day, mainly because it’s an absolute beast of emulation machine. Apart from WiiU games (ofc), plays Wii and GameCube games (after little soft modding) natively and thanks to its controller and touchscreen, it’s a perfect home console to play my DS games.

I LOVED the idea of the Wii U as a local co-op system that gave you one player with a separate screen. The only problem is game developers would have to make their games with that in mind. But local co-op where one person is "isolated" from the others creates the opportunity for so many amazing games and ideas. Even if it's as simple as removing split screen to prevent screen peaking in vs games.

The WiiU was like the difference between a 1080ti and a 2080ti. Not a big of a difference for the majority of the people, but could definitely do some cool new things.

i loved the wii u so much but im not buying a ps5 for this lmao also i think the description has a typo it says PS2 at the start instead of PS5

For years after it came out I thought the Wii u was an add on for the Wii as well. The emulation on Wii u with the dual screen setup for ds games looks amazing.

The only thing this has going for it from my understanding is that it is officially from Sony, which gets gray when you consider the backbone or just using a duelsense from anything. It's definitely more convenient than any other option but that's just it. If it goes beyond 250 I just think the value of it plummets when you consider the other options.

The only redeeming quality for that streaming device is the fact that it can also be used as a second controller. But the price will be crucial. Probably no less than 150$, but more than 200$ and it will be dead in the water.

Yeah the wiiu was awesome. The controller display was used for so many unique experiences like nintendo land or made item management super easy in various games and it was incredible.

I genuinely miss tiny, pocketable handhelds. The switch is too big, the deck is too big (I own both). Give me something like a Vita 2, a modern PSP GO or the original 3DS. That's the form factor I want. These other devices are fine for transporting and playing at another stationary location, but i would never whip out my deck or even the switch when I'm out and about. They're just too clunky and large for that. If it's not as easy to transport as my phone or close to it, then it's too large and not as portable as it needs to be worth pulling out over my phone.

The Wii U allowed me to play many old games, it's what got me into retro games, I first played Mario 1, 3, and 4(World) on Wii U, I got to play Mario 64 and DS again as well

People familiar with Bungie's nearly 3 decade old series and even old Halo enthusiasts know just how huge of an announcement it was. My hopes are set high for it, not because of the genre it's in, but because of the potential the Marathon universe has. As for the this PlayStation handheld, I'm confident it'll flop unless the price is considerably affordable.

Microsoft has their cloud streaming and it works pretty well. The best part is that all you need is a phone/tablet or Windows PC with the Xbox app and an Xbox controller but the price of entry is super low. yes there is improvement that could be made and it could have more games available. I should also add you can stream directly from the console over wifi and cellular

Honestly, the only thing I can see anything like this actually be useful for would be if it had a touch display and you could connect it to a PC, that way it could be used for (3)DS and Wii U emulation.

I'd say that Microsoft is doing okay with mobile gaming. I've been playing game pass on mobile, and it's actually pretty great. I play on my cheap mobile plan and get pretty good latency, it's just that the resolution isn't always the best. I'd love for there to be a handheld Xbox console.

Don't hate on nintendo for knowing what to focus on with the switch. They knew the target market for their console wasn't as interested in massive graphics-heavy titles, so they didn't make that console. They knew other companies would focus on processing power, so they found a niche and stuck to it.

I don't know, I kinda like that PlayStation is giving us more official accessories (VR2, now project Q) for PS5. But I don't really see how project Q is more practical than phone + some controller remote play, especially given the price of the new thingy, and I doubt it's sub 200$

I loved the Wii U. NintendoLand was great for game nights with friends. It's a shame there weren't any titles released utilizing a second gamepad.

Yeah, this "Project Q" will be Sony's last ditch effort at a handheld PlayStation. They basically did everything on this device we can already do on our phone's with a BackBone attached and are gunna charge us $200 or more for the thing. When all we wanted was them to actually try a new, native handheld. The market is dying for them to tap into it again and they go this way?

I remember taking my Wii U console and gamepad to my in-laws and plugging it into the dining room area and pretty much being so proud and full of myself that I was playing a full console experience on my handheld screen! that was also the first time that I was able to buy and enjoy and experience earthbound (which I did on the gamepad screen in the dining room.. lol)

i loved my wii-u i rarely used it on a tv pretty much used it like a switch that i couldnt take 30 feet away from the console

just to say a thing about cell plans: since I moved to Switzerland in March 2023, I have unlmited and very stable 5G service. albeit having to carry a terrible Roaming EU plan (which is like, all the countries around mine lol) but at least some okay-ish weekend plans to cover that. I lived and worked off that 5G plan until my home cable service was up and running and I had little to no ping or mbits deficiency whatsoever. and I even pay 30% less than in good old germany before.

Madden 13 on the Wii U had my favorite feature that I’ve seen on any madden game. Draw up a custom play on the fly with drawn routes with the stylus on the game pad.

What was Linus talking about when he was talking about the Nvidia Shield? The Shield is a set top streaming box. It was never a mobile gaming device as far as I know.

5:37 He got me. Well played, Linus. Stand a little taller today for that one. Well, I mean figuratively.

The thing is I've been doing everything you said was innovative with this Product for pretty much 10 years with my phone and a controller

I made an interface that let you plug a controller into a phone or tablet, and I use it and the steam link to play my pc games. Works pretty well. costs a cheap type c cable and a usb splitter.

I tried using the PS Remote play away from my own network. I was on a different wifi network two hundred miles away. Even navigating the menu had lags.

As a father and primary care taker of a one-year old, sitting down and getting a gaming session in just isn't possible for me right now. I've been enjoying using my PS Vita more as it's more mobile around the house. I am REALLY looking forward to this as I can finally play some of my PS5 Titles I've been itching to get to.

As a Finnish person I'm still suprised with how bad and expensive the cellural internet still is in NA.

Linus talking about how bad the cellular network is in there, meanwhile, I need to take my bike or car and go 2KM away from my home to receive a 2FA SMS.

I loved my Wii U riiight up intil the gamepad stopped working. Can't even adjust the settings if you don't have one of them

My main problem with this "project q" is that I can already use remote play on my $150 Android tablet. The only place my current solution isn't practical is in places where I'd need cellular connectivity anyway, like on public transit.

I used to have a cell based home internet modem back around 2009-2011. Don't remember the name now, but I was surprised how well I could play Team Fortress 2 on it. I got like 40-80ms ping on most servers which was very playable. No data caps either. Of course as data usage and data caps became more common they went out of business but it was great while it lasted. Edit: and yes I know ping isn't everything but the experience still felt as good as playing on cable internet.

These men need to play ZombiU multiplayer. One person is a survivor in fps mode and the other is the king of zombies and places zombies of all types in strategic places trying to defeat the fps player. It was amazing.

I live in Straubenhardt, Germany and I use a 5g connection on my Desktop. DSL is like 50mbit down/10mbit up with a 30ms ping, whilst over mobile I get 150-250mbit down and 50mbit up with a 18ms ping.

I don't get linus' hate for the switch. The console is perfectly fine even as old as it is. I've maybe noticed like three instances of frame drops in tears of the Kingdom. The game has been running absolutely fine for me and I'm well over a hundred hours in.

The WiiU came in pretty clutch when I broke my wrist and had a cast on. I was able to use it like a fight pad with my fingers on the right side playing Batman Arkham Origins. Not to mention having the map open all the time was nice.

My phone already has ps play and the sony remote play app, ps play works on wifi or network. I don't get it. Why wouldn't I use my phone or my laptop with a ps5 controller wirelessly using dualsenseX?

I used the wiiu gamepad to play in my bedroom, I even took my wiiu somewhere without a tv to play with a friend on the gamepad. I loved to use the gamepad screen in combo with the tv too!

Well, for the cellular data thing, in my country the internet speed in general at best is 1mb/s (literally everywhere you go, no joke) while all cellular data providers run at 5-10 times that speed on average so for reliable gaming, using cellular data is the way to go. And hell, I'm talking about hotspot cellular data from your phone, if you use cellular data through LAN it's even faster (though not by much, maybe one or two more mb/s). The nice thing is that you can have your normal internet for online games like MMOs and installing games and then use the cellular data for stuff like MOBAs, team shooters and fighting games, it's also nice that said games don't use that much data so it's more affordable.

I used to do this with the vita+ps4 with remote play. I would play assassins creed black flag during school with my 4g phone hotspot. It was pretty cool considering cloud gaming wasnt huge when the ps4 first released

I used the gamepad screen a lot. I'm the kind of person who needs to do 2 things at once, so I'd watch something while gaming on the 2nd screen.

I was a teenager when the Wii U came out and I played gamepad only all the time so I could continue while my parents watched, whatever home remodeling show they were watching at the time. It was so useful to me. I don't have a PS5 and I'm not sure I'd get this attachment if I did. I have a Switch and Steam deck so there's more than enough stuff I could play when away from a monitor or tv. I don't even have to be in my house like I would with the PS5 screen controller thing.

this would also be really handy for people that wanna play their PS5 but share the TV with a roommate or family member

I Loved the Wii U, and I only used it in handheld mode. It was basically a handheld for use at home. Sitting out on the deck, or in my bedroom, etc.

Like Luke, I had a WiiU, and everyone who came over for party games left our place loving the thing.

Nice- I didn’t see it until now. And now I can’t unsee it…

Wow! I almost forgot what screens used to look like without Dark Mode lol

What abotu broadband connection ? I have the PS5 wired to a router in city A and I want to access it from city B, both locations are conencted to a wired connection(fiber) from the same provider and in B I have a wireless router. Would it work ? If yes, I think I will get it.

I was able to re-compile skyline apk. It's an NX emu on android. Works great, but eventually Yuzu would catch up in terms of performance and updates.

For cellular network, I can just use hotspot from my phone just fine, and yes my data plan etc is fine xD I have unlimited with good speeds, only issue is that there's a daily cap I need to manually increase (no extra cost) It's better for me to play online games over celular then it is over some random WiFi during trips.

The funny thing that Linus seems to misunderstand, is that the additonal latency I get when I'm actually today playing PS5 games (like Bloodborne) via Remote Play using a VPN, it's really not that bad. And yeah I understand that in the americas it's really hard to build good mobile networks because of the mountains and stuff, but here in Finland? When I'm visiting my sisters, maybe like 50ms extra latency? It's noticeable, but I can definitely play even soulslike games with that. And the standard data plan in finland? Infinite usage. We just pay for a different speed, not amount of data.

In Europe most data plans for mobile are flat fee for unlimited. I pay ~120$ for 2 phones and datacap is something ridicoulus like 120GB/month. I quite often forget to turn on Wifi on the phone for weeks at a time.

Sony has had "remote play" for years already at this point, for PS4 and PS5, and you can use any mobile, tablet, or pc/mac with their app to do it, and its easy enough to pair a PS4/5/xbox or any other third party controller to mobile or pc these days. What will be interesting to see at this point, considering they're making a dedicated device for remote play, is how they handle the previous restriction remote play had, at a developer level. Currently the remote play wont broadcast anything the game dev decided to block as a "recordable scene" (common for cut scenes) and you'd see nothing but a black screen in those instances. Will this mean that Sony create a work around or makes their devs stop doing this and patch older games that have it, or will it create a mess for marketing/PR when they get backlash around people complaining they cant actually play story driven games on remote because they literally don't know what's going on due to blocked cut scenes. I also hope Sony doesn't pull their current (freely offered) remote play functions in attempt to capitalize on the new market they're trying to create with this hardware.

What a deep cut Austin Powers reference by Linus!

Cant you already stream games to your iPad?

i reallt loved the wiiu. zelda games never played better with the map and inventory separate. its keeps the games flowinf as you swap items on the go. i think twilight princess would have been hell on the wii pressing pause every 2 seconds to get through the equipment needed to pass a dungeon. but i also like its other features, like how on starfox it became the cockpit radio, really immersive. and super mario 3d world how you could stun the enemies or blow into it to spin the fans. so much better as a controller to than what switch is. i really hope they make a wiiu 2 for the next console. maybe just a console that you pair the old switch onto, so you can take the cart portable if you want too.

Wait how can you make Nintendo games work on the Steam Deck such as TOTK?

I very much appreciated the Austin Powers joke.

Agreed on the "gaming on cellular network" point. When I'm travelling, whenever I tried to play LoL using Hotspot, it was always spiking often enough that I'd only play ARAM or just bloody TFT ... T_T

My wifi would sometimes just suck during covid, so I would switch to cellular. Warzone was prety doable. 25eur a month unlimited data, and it gave me like 60ish mb/s which at times was better compared to the wifi.

I have used hotspots for gaming when the WiFi goes down and that was honestly fine

as an estonian, its still weird that cellular data is expensive or not accessible in major towns in first world, i can have 100mbs capped unlimited data under 20 probably, currently we have 5 phone numbers, mutiple tvs in multiple locations and 3 cellular based wifi solutions under family packet for less than 50 i belive, connection issues are very rare and need combination of being far away from masts and thickkkk stone walls, even on fairly remote island i have full bars of 4g

I'm surprised no one's talking about how many VR2s (according to the person of the other end of the line saying they're getting a lot of requests and they have a backlog.)are breaking or at least stop powering on like mine did and I had to wait a month and two weeks to "get it back" .

Nintendo Land with Mario chase is a game my family talks about to this day

Shout out to Linus for the Austin Powers reference, lol.

Need to poop mid raid? No longer hide and pray. Introducing the Poop Deck, housed in a case actually made from a Poop Deck this baby will save your life.

With the prevalence of collect-a-thon elements in modern games, this would honestly make some games a lot more playable. I don't know about other people, but I'm a lot more willing to do mundane, repetitive tasks on a handheld than I am on a console or desktop, and when a game has a mixture of big, epic stuff I want to see on a larger display and tedious stuff I could do while in bed or waiting for my food to cook, having the ability to do both would honestly be really nice.

Oh no, the spiders got to Luke.

Lol that title of the video was literally what I said when I saw the announcement (which was leaked to its fullest anyway).

What does this thing do that the PS Remote Play app doesn't?

they already have a library of games to go with it they can drop on the ps network for vita and psp

I am also a Wii U lover. I still have mine, and the kids play it regularly, and they play Mario with the player setting blocks exactly like Luke Described, its a blast.

OMG! I LOVED the Austin Powers reference there!

8:28 Yep, I'm in Seoul with an unlimited plan!

I'm with Luke I liked wii u . Wii you zombie was the same u could place zombies around corners to get your friends. Very fun

Talking about cellular networks in switzerland. 5G coverage isn't perfect and country side areas are mostly missing it, but in cities and larger villages, there is a lot of coverage. Our ISPs charge roughly 20 USD / month for a fully unlimited 5G 2Gbit/s data plan. And from the regular speedtests I do whenever I feel like it, I can say that you can get up to 2Gbit/s with a latency as low as 2ms for up and download. And relatively consistent at that. In terms of speed, it is slower than what most ISPs allow through your FttH. But in terms of latency, you have a hard time reaching these speeds over your home internet. Considering this, a cellular network version of this PS5 tablet would be cool. But it likely won't be a feature.

For me, I absolutely love the idea of a wireless display-controller combo, the same way I still absolutely love my Wii U. That said I can do the same thing for free on my phone through Steam Link, so it'll be interesting to see how it's priced. My S22U is 1440p120hz AMOLED and I have an inexpensive attachment for a controller. So pretending I could buy it, the 1080p60hz seems kind of underwhelming but this thing is probably a lot more comfortable in bed too, so it comes down to the price. $200 is way too much, where $120-150 would be great assuming it's a quality product.

In norway cell network is pretty amazing, i pay 40 dollars a month for my phone plan for 1 terabyte of data. Ping is under 100 ms. This can also be a lot cheaper if you enter a 1 year or longer contract.

Be a super cool smart interactive remote too

All US "unlimited data" cell plans throttle after a certain amt of data transfer even when they say they don't. Data network speed also depends on the area and time of day. Gaming over cell generally sucks except for the beginning of the billing period and after peak usage times.

Honestly just the ability to manage the inventory and map on the WiiU game pad playing wind waker HD was very clutch and smoothed out the gameplay significantly

Anyone remember when Sony had this feature with the PS3 and the PSP? Also there's a Typo in the description It says PS2

Wii u prob has lower input lag even. As its a direct connection using proprietary BT protocol doesn't depend on a router or other variables like TCP to transmit data.

If someone finds a way to connect the touch screen and pad to a PC DS and Wii U emulation would go crazy

Did... Did everyone just forget the psvita exists??? Not only could you stream games from your ps3&4 to the vita, you could stream vita games to your tv through the ps3&4!!! It was literally way better in every way.

8:35 I'm one of those people, entire house internet runs on 5g. 600mb each way for 35EUR a month. Mobile phone plan is 10EUR month with the same speed, unlimited data (with fair use)/texts and calls. Extraordinarily expensive cellular seems to be a north American thing