Why does the Wii U display websites weirdly?

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So I was messing with my Wii U's web browser and found their cool little developer tools feature. I enabled it and loaded up my website.

While inspecting it, I found something weird - the website's body displays as 980 pixels wide, even though the gamepad is only 854 pixels wide according to Wikipedia.

If it matters, here's a link to my site, but I'm pretty sure it's not my code that's doing this. Any ideas?

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miken32 On BEST ANSWER

The viewport of the browser is 980 pixels wide. This is most often seen on mobile browsers, where emulating desktop dimensions would be troublesome; not sure why they would feel the need to do the same in this situation. Perhaps they ported an existing mobile browser? You can control this behaviour by using the <meta> element on your website.