3 Years of Service
No, it was a new console, it only used the old controllers, just like you can also play Xbox Series with Xbox One controllers, or PlayStation 5 with PlayStation 4 controllers (I don't know if many games use them, but I know it's possible).So for co-op you still needed a base station Wii with controllers? So that little black boxy thing was essentially the regular Wii and the handheld WiiU was a combination of a touchscreen with controllers? I'm not quite understanding how this would work, ngl. Seems convoluted... Was it at least portable like a Sega GameGear OR did you still need the boxy/base station in order to play with it?
The gamepad was just Wii U controller, it had no processing power. It was not a portable. The console was both the videogame and the controller (which weren't sold separately, so if you broke it, you're in for a bad time).
When Sony announced that PlayStation Portal many people joked that it was Sony's Wii U, because it is just a controller with a screen that needs to be connected to a videogame to be played. Hahaha