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Christmas holiday season shoppers would want to add a new gadget to their list this year. Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata confirmed today that the next-generation Wii aka Wii U will be released before end of this year to take advantage of the important holiday season shopping.

Although there are no exact dates, Wii U will make its way to US, Europe, Australia and Japan later this year.

Wii U looks similar to the original Wii but comes with a 6.2-inch touchscreen display that acts as a controller as well as secondary display to play games on.

[Via Reuters]