Nintendo pronounced Friday a next-generation Wii U diversion console will launch in time for a holiday deteriorate in a U.S., Europe and Japan.

The inheritor to a renouned Wii console will confederate a renouned touch-card record into a controllers. Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata pronounced a device will use NFC, or nearby margin communication, standards that are widely employed in tap-and-go sight passes and other remuneration systems worldwide.

"It will turn probable to emanate cards and figurines that can electronically review and write information around noncontact NFC," Iwata pronounced in a speech, a duplicate of that was posted on Nintendo's web site.

"Adoption of this functionality will capacitate several other possibilities such as regulating it as a means of creation micropayments," he added.

The Nintendo arch pronounced final sum about a Wii U will be announced during a Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, a vital annual diversion muster to be hold this year in Jun in Los Angeles.

The Wii U has a vast controller that is identical to a dedicated handheld console, with a touchscreen, suit showing and camera. Its tiny shade can be used to addition games played on TVs or reinstate a incomparable arrangement entirely.

Iwata spoke a day after his association expelled bad formula for a nine-month duration by December. It cut a annual sales targets for a 3DS handheld console launched final year, as good as a strange Wii, and pronounced it now forecasts a most deeper detriment for a mercantile year than progressing predicted.

He pronounced Nintendo has done clever swell with a 3DS, a inheritor to a smash-hit DS. When a 3DS stumbled after a launch final year, a association responded with vast tellurian cost cuts reduction than 6 months after launch, that eventually spurred sales though weighed heavily on a bottom line. It also announced a swift of new diversion titles.

"In a initial half of a subsequent mercantile term, we are now expecting to get out of a conditions that we sell a hardware next cost," Iwata pronounced Friday, emphasizing that a company's efforts have paid off and sales have rebounded strongly.

He combined that Nintendo is operative to enhance StreetPass and SpotPass, a peer-to-peer platforms of a device, that let users promulgate and contest around their 3DS consoles. The association is also operative to enhance a fledgling online emporium for a device.

Like many Japanese companies, Nintendo's mercantile year runs from Apr by March.