Satoru Iwata, Global President, Nintendo Co., Ltd., speaks during a news conference after the unveiling of the new game console Wii U at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on June 7, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Nintendo’s new video game console, the Wii U, was revealed to the public at the Nintendo’s E3 presentation [...]

Microsoft Kinect trumps Wii The motion-based Wii remote replaced the standard joystick and was absolutely cutting edge — in 2006. Sony (SNE) has already responded with its own motion stick, Move, for the PlayStation 3. Microsoft (MSFT) chucked the stick altogether and released the controller-free Kinect last November. As my BNET colleague Erik Sherman noted [...]