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Wii U Release Day Thread

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So I know people are having trouble registering Wii U stuff for Club Nintendo - I registered Mario & it told me it wasn't eligible for coins. Is that one of those known issues they're going to rectify?
 

Alex

Member
Can anyone get Youtube videos to load properly in the browser? I was totally not trying to cheat in NSMBU when I pulled up a browser and none of the videos are loading properly - just sticks as a black box.

It worked fine before, this problem is new to me.
 
Can anyone get Youtube videos to load properly in the browser? I was totally not trying to cheat in NSMBU when I pulled up a browser and none of the videos are loading properly - just sticks as a black box.

It worked fine before, this problem is new to me.

Same here... First time it happened to me too.
 
So here is the story for anyone who cares.

We were robbed a couple weeks ago and I lost all electronics except for my Wii (added insult), but they took the controllers, power brick etc.

I'm in Target Sunday to get a new PS3, as I figured that would hold me off until next gen systems. They didn't have the PS3 I wanted, just shitty bundles, and then I saw the Wii U. For some reason I thought these were hard to get and I got the idea of a new mario game in my mind and just had to have it.

Now I'm left with a slow ass version of my Wii, at least it plays those Wii games. As an added insult, the new mario game is the old Wii mario game, sigh...

Everything about it sucks, I'll try ZombiU, maybe it will redeem it.

wow, the being robbed part really sucks badly.

However, the Mario game is definitely not the same game as Wii had. Getting to a game is about the same time as it was on Wii... so I don't see the issue there as is most of the other opening up apps type of things... and the browser as well as miiverse blow anything on other consoles out of the water, respectively.

btw, ZombiU is a great game if you like survival horror. My favorite game out right now.

Granted this is all personal opinion, but hopefully ZombiU does click with you.
 

DrM

Redmond's Baby
After 2 hours of trying, i give up. My TV is just too ancient to remove that nasty overscan, so i will have to cope for some time :(
 
So I know people are having trouble registering Wii U stuff for Club Nintendo - I registered Mario & it told me it wasn't eligible for coins. Is that one of those known issues they're going to rectify?

My Mario and console registered just fine. Did you buy it from Gamestop as a "new" yet opened game?
 

Kacho

Member
Can anyone get Youtube videos to load properly in the browser? I was totally not trying to cheat in NSMBU when I pulled up a browser and none of the videos are loading properly - just sticks as a black box.

It worked fine before, this problem is new to me.

Go to this link in the Wii U web browser: link

Click on join the trial if it's available. Then try watching the video again.
 

NickMitch

Member
browser youtube doesn't work for me either. worked fine earlier today, and it works fine on my phone....The better not pull the browser support... i will bring hellfire on them if that is the case!
 

majik13

Member
I can see why people are enjoying it, it's not a horrible console.

It's just little things like a slow OS and no games coming for most of 2013 that has me down on it.

thats probabaly because they still arent talking about games outside launch window yet. No one is allowed to announce anything as far as I know.
 

Cosmozone

Member
Just saw that the browser curtain does something funny when closed for a longer time, lol. Didn't know that.

Edit: You're right about Youtube X-(
 
maybe Youtube is blocking the Wii U browser to force you guys to use the shitty app?
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Isn't the browser opera based? In the page where you enable de html5 beta it says something like opera needs WebM to play videos, and WebM appears to be disabled.
 

Chopper

Member
YouTube's not working for me either. What. The. Fuck. If they've pulled support I will be fucking furious.

So...Should we move in on the app's Miiverse community?
 

stuminus3

Member
The Wii U has become my favorite device for playing streaming porn on my HDTV. That's weird.

It's a shame that the Netflix app has messed up gamma because things like the interface and the screen switching function could make this the most awesome Netflix experience. I'm sure there'll be updates down the line to fix it (and add some of the cool stuff from the PC/PS3 Netflix experience like auto-starting the next episode of a TV show).

The "Netflix for Kids" experience is better than it's ever been before though - when one show is over, my 4 year old daughter basically just has to tap the picture of her favorite character on the screen and the next episode of that show plays, no hassle. It's cool.
 
the fact that it worked perfectly fine on the browser before means something changed so if Youtube changed something they should adress this and fix it

people are already pissed at the shitty app
 

Chopper

Member
Ha ha! The Miiverse community appears to have already cottoned on. I can't see this lasting long, whatever the reason might be...
 

jonno394

Member
So, do we think the Wii U has passed 1 million worldwide yet?

425k in USA(Nov)
308 in Japan (opening)
40k in UK (opening)

is 227k for rest of Europe launch and the last 2 weeks, NA in December and rest of the world achievable?
 

Kacho

Member
Have we established just how awesome the Wii-U browser is? This thing is FAST.

It's quite nice.

So, do we think the Wii U has passed 1 million worldwide yet?

425k in USA(Nov)
308 in Japan (opening)
40k in UK (opening)

is 227k for rest of Europe launch and the last 2 weeks, NA in December and rest of the world achievable?

If it hasn't already it's close. It'll be 1mil+ by the end of December for sure.
 

Krakatoa

Member
So, do we think the Wii U has passed 1 million worldwide yet?

425k in USA(Nov)
308 in Japan (opening)
40k in UK (opening)

is 227k for rest of Europe launch and the last 2 weeks, NA in December and rest of the world achievable?

It has to be close.

Dont forget Aus/NZ as well.
 

elostyle

Never forget! I'm Dumb!
So, do we think the Wii U has passed 1 million worldwide yet?

425k in USA(Nov)
308 in Japan (opening)
40k in UK (opening)

is 227k for rest of Europe launch and the last 2 weeks, NA in December and rest of the world achievable?
It's probably quite a bit past it.
 

Gradivus

Member
So, do we think the Wii U has passed 1 million worldwide yet?

425k in USA(Nov)
308 in Japan (opening)
40k in UK (opening)

is 227k for rest of Europe launch and the last 2 weeks, NA in December and rest of the world achievable?

Where abouts was the info about the 227k for the rest of Europe?

I think it would most likely over 1 million now if that's the case for Europe.
 

kinggroin

Banned
What the hell!?!?

Was using the browser for Key & Peele cooldown in between Mario and Nano Assault sessions.


Googs better not have blocked the Wii U.


Edit: and to the person on the last page, the browser is not Opera based.
 

Glass Joe

Member
weird, but i'm glad i'm not the only one having youtube browser issues all of the sudden. hopefully a fix is on the way. i wonder if it's related to youtube's new "look?"

oddly, i just checked the wii u youtube app and it had me install an update. i did and at a glance, i couldn't notice anything different. certainly no "stream to gamepad" option still. but to be fair, i'm not sure if the update is actually "new" or if i just hadn't updated in a while. it had probably been a couple weeks since i last launched it.
 
Where abouts was the info about the 227k for the rest of Europe?

I think it would most likely over 1 million now if that's the case for Europe.

He's saying that's the amount that would need to have been sold there to be at 1 million already.

Given the way sales figures usually increase in December, odds are they can come close to 2 million by new year.
 

Gradivus

Member
He's saying that's the amount that would need to have been sold there to be at 1 million already.

Given the way sales figures usually increase in December, odds are they can come close to 2 million by new year.

Whoops, my bad!

Close to two million could be achievable, but I guess we will not get any ideas until some European numbers are out besides the UK.
 

Roo

Member
The Wii U has become my favorite device for playing streaming porn on my HDTV. That's weird.

It's a shame that the Netflix app has messed up gamma because things like the interface and the screen switching function could make this the most awesome Netflix experience. I'm sure there'll be updates down the line to fix it (and add some of the cool stuff from the PC/PS3 Netflix experience like auto-starting the next episode of a TV show).

The "Netflix for Kids" experience is better than it's ever been before though - when one show is over, my 4 year old daughter basically just has to tap the picture of her favorite character on the screen and the next episode of that show plays, no hassle. It's cool.


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