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Wii U is backward compatible with other Wii controllers and accessories and Wii games, but not [[Game Cube]] games (though such have been confirmeddiscussed for the Virtual Console, and the compatibility capability there as console hackers have shown). The controller itself can actually stream video chat, and can even be used to share videos and other media. The controller also supports near field communication (NFC) common in mobile devices, allowing for wireless interaction with figurines and cards as well as microtransactions with credit cards that utilize NFC support (incidentally, Nintendo originally planned on the Wii having such a touch screen controller, but they instead went with motion controls while saving the touch screen for the Wii U). This spearheaded Amiibo functionality.

The Wii U has 8GB or 32GB flash memory depending on the model compared to the 512 MB on the Wii. In addition to using SD cards, a hard drive can be connected via one of the four USB ports. The Nintendo-proprietary game discs themselves can contain 25 GB of memory <ref> The same size as a single-layer Blu-ray disc used by the [[Play Station 3]]. The Wii-U optical disk drive is a Blu-Ray in all but name and software support, and the edges.</ref>.

The Wii U is comparable to or more powerfulcapable than the [[Xbox 360]] and [[Play Station 3]] depending on the application .<ref> It is powered by an IBM POWER7 multicore microprocessor, which was developed based on the technology used in their supercomputer Watson, as well as a custom-designed AMD Radeon GPU based on the Radeon HD 4770</ref>, and features HD compatibility equatingoutputting up to a resolution of 1080p (Actual resolution. Therendered 360by upscalesa 720pcame can vary.), though it should be pointed out that any and all footage shown of the [[Wii U]] during E3 2011 (except that of the [[Tech Demo Game|tech demos]] and ''Killer Freaks From Outer Space'') was actually footage taken from 360 and [[Play Station 3]] games. According to [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], he could not say for sure if the hardware will outperform the [[Play Station 3]] and 360; though [[Electronic Arts]], [[Crysis (series)|Crytek]], and [[Brothers in Arms|Gearbox]] [[Borderlands|Software]] have confirmed the final developers' kit easily can. The system comes with 2GB of RAM -- 4 times as much as the Xbox 360 (512 MB), 8 times that of the PS3 (256 MB), and 32 times the amount of the Wii (64 MB).