The bulk of these screws are behind console-colored stickers, be sure to peel them all off. The CMOS battery door is the first thing you'll have to remove, followed by 8 more screws (a mixture of philips head and tri-wing). Getting inside the chassis is also quite similar. The Wii U hardware itself looks a lot like a larger Wii.

The two kits retail for $299.99 and $349.99, respectively. The deluxe kit also includes a stand and cradle for the Wii U tablet GamePad as well as a stand for the console itself. The deluxe console gives you 32GB of on-board storage (eMMC NAND) vs. The basic kit comes in white, while the deluxe is black.

The Wii U is available in two versions: the basic and deluxe kits.

I wasn't all that interested in the Wii U, but I did want to get a look at the silicon inside so I grabbed a unit and went into teardown mode. The new console could very well end up the fastest kid on the block thanks to the sheer age of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. When Nintendo announced the Wii U there was a lot of interest in its hardware specs.

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