Nintendo made a surprise announcement when it unveiled Nintendo TVii, a new service that converts the Wii U Game Pad into an impressive television remote.

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The console is bigger than an Xbox controller but smaller than the Wii U's game-pad.

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He says currently the only landing pad they have is on the U.N. base, and it's already overly congested.

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Instead of a hand-sized game pad studded with joysticks and buttons, or the motion sensitive wand used on the Wii, the Wii U is controlled essentially by a tablet computer.

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