Nintendo Narrows Wii U Launch Window by a Few Months

When Nintendo unveiled the Wii U at E3 earlier this year, the launch window they provided was quite breezy — sometime between April and December of 2012. According to Japanese news site Inside Games, an official statement from the company has narrowed that window by a few months, pegging the release for sometime after E3 2012 kicks off in June.

Nintendo will be showing the Wii U at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, apparently with some never-before-seen demonstrations of the system's unique tablet controller. The Big N has traditionally passed over CES, so it'll be interesting to see exactly what they present this year. There's a chance we might see final hardware or even our first look at actual first-party games, as opposed to the tech demos we've seen so far.

Don't get your hopes up for a firm release date, though. That likely won't be coming until E3, though nothing is out of the question, especially if Nintendo is hoping to make the earlier half of that launch window.