Nintendo Wii U

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Good man!

[Yiggy]

Well that didn't take long:

http://www.nintendol..._by_three_times

Funny thing is I have not found the low battery life to be a problem at all. So long as I drop it back on the charge cradle when I get up or am not going to use it for a bit it's fine. I have yet to have run out of juice. Although clearly I don't have a lot of very long game sessions.

Though how on earth have they managed to get a much bigger battery into the same size package? I bet it's bigger but still fits in the hole as there is spare space? Which would make the unit heavier? I thought that if you had to make a battery last twice as long you had to make it twice as big.

[Mike]

If I play some wii games on the Wii U then transfer stuff from my old Wii next week will my saves made today survive the transfer of old stuff?

I recently got Skyward Sword and want to play it but can only get my old wii sorted next week

[hub2]

The stock battery in the Wii U doesn't take up all of the space available... so the new battery is literally bigger.

[noob]

got a text and email yesterday from nintendo, my gamepad is on its way back to me after being repaired.

very very pleased

[Yiggy]

The stock battery in the Wii U doesn't take up all of the space available... so the new battery is literally bigger.

Done to keep it light though.

The trade off in weight won't be worth it for me I doubt.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Are your muscles made of porridge? Jesus Christ. Nintendo probably used the weaker battery to save a pound or two per unit. If they sell 50m units, thats £100m profit.

[Clipper]

Done to keep it cheap though.

Fixed that for you.

Nintendo are notorious for penny pinching on bits to save a few cents here and there.

[Yiggy]

But that doesn't mean that the side effect of less weight isn't a good thing. Think of all the negative comments about shit battery life before it was launched and how few complaints there are in reality thanks to the stand.

Then think of all the positive accounts about how comfortable and light the pad was when people first tried it.

I think in hindsight they made the correct decision to go for a lighter / cheaper battery.

[pulsemyne]

The battery from nyko maybe every bit as light due to it being lithium polymer as opposed to the lithium ion nintendo used. Poly stuff is cheap and light and has a good life. It's the type of batteries used in ipads etc.

[mr_woo]

The battery from nyko maybe every bit as light due to it being lithium polymer as opposed to the lithium ion nintendo used. Poly stuff is cheap and light and has a good life. It's the type of batteries used in ipads etc.

Yep, someone on the NeoGAF thread said they met with the Nyko folks to try it out and that the weight didn't seem much different at all with the bigger battery.

Also, as a side note, I must thank you pulsemyne for dying in Zombi U. Not that I wish you harm in the game but you really don't know how much the lovely items on your rotting corpse saved my ass just after I found you

[Yiggy]

The battery from nyko maybe every bit as light due to it being lithium polymer as opposed to the lithium ion nintendo used. Poly stuff is cheap and light and has a good life. It's the type of batteries used in ipads etc.

If that's the case then its the best of both worlds. Wonderful.

[noob]

delivery from yodel just now, one brand spanking new gamepad from nintendo.

awesome customer service from start to finish.

now i have no excuse to play ZombiU again... &

[polygon_monkey]

Nsmb U is a bit tough isn't it? And I can't leave a world until I've got all the star coins. Almost threw my gamepad at the wall today - fucking urchins!!!!

[Mike]

I stank so much on it before it offered me the chance to watch Luigii do it

[b00dles]

Run for it! Is a total bastard of a course.

There are some brilliant classic platforming levels in nsmbu, it could almost be super Mario world U.

[Keyboard Koala]

Maybe old news but the first Bayonetta may also appear on the WiiU as an eShop title:

>>

[SMD]

Nah, it's just Kamiya deflecting.

[Dandy_Sephy]

I find a lot of his twitter replies amusing, some might think he's a bit of a angry and dismissive man.

Case in point, his response to people going on about wanting pc ports is to tell them to fuck off (not a paraphrase!). In more polite replies, telling you to hassle the publisher is his usual response to questions about ports and such.

TBH it seems the sort of Twitter presence that makes no sense. Most of his posts are dealing with the same thing over and over again on subjects that aren't his domain.

[Not Thread Owner]

I stank so much on it before it offered me the chance to watch Luigii do it

Ha! When does it do that?

[Seamonster]

Bought a Wii U on Friday and it's crashing/hanging constantly. It's really annoying as when it works it seems like a lovely bit of kit.

I feel a long and tedious call to Nintendo Customer Care coming on....

[iris]

Mine crashed the first day loading the settings and I thought uh-oh but it's been fine since then.

[Mike]

Ha! When does it do that?

If you've died a few to many times.

[scottcr]

And the doorbell noise it uses is so deliberately done to wind you up

[Not Thread Owner]

That explains the doorbell comment I didn't understand then

[scottcr]

I really really want a Spotify app for this... with the gamepad being my music selection and the TV being used for awesome visualisations.

Or - if not Spotify, at least something that streams from iTunes or whatever and does the same.

[SMD]

Or a media app. You can stream off your PC but it won't play off hard disks.

[Jolly]

Has anyone found any nice cases for the game pad? Getting a bit sick of obsessively cleaning the thing for five minutes every time I pick it up.

[Banjaxed]

Anyone had any problems logging into the Netflix App? Once I put in my email and password the App just keeps showing the loading circle!!

Other than that and the looooong update I'm very pleased with my Wii U.

[10000Hz]

Yeah, attempted to log into Netflix last night but no joy. Gave up in the end and played Trine 2 which wasn't a good experience with the Gamepad, the pad is just to big.