The Wii U launch in the US saw the initial 4 lack units Nintendo allocated selling out in the 1st week. 6 years after the Wii console took living rooms by storm, Nintendo is trying to capture the same success with its new Wii U, is to released in the UK overnight on Thursday. HMV is to open its flagship Oxford Street store in London for a special midnight launch, treating fans to game demos and goody bags as they queued in the cold to get their hands on the Wii U. The key attraction is the Game Pad controller, featuring a camera, motion-detectors and a touch-sensitive display that can show game elements such as maps or inventories, but can also be used to hide information from other players in the same room. The machine is in point of fact quite hard to understand – or probably, to see the point of, said Oli Welsh, "deputy editor of Euro-gamer. "The tablet controller works in so many different ways: as an additional screen, as a multi player device, as a remote display, as a motion-controlled 'window' on the game world. All of these are interesting, but not necessarily compelling reasons to pick one up. It's definitely a much harder sell for a mass market than the Wii's motion controller was." The launch in the US on 18 November saw the initial allocation of 400,000 units sell out in a week. But some complained about having to download a huge software update before they could start playing. There have other problems with its Wi-Fi connection for online gaming. Source The Guardian