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My Wii U died and I lived to tell about it
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qizah
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Good to know you can still use your old NiN ID over to a new console!
Hope you get your Nintendo Land disc back soon.
Hope you get your Nintendo Land disc back soon.
I'm right there with you. I picked mine up last Monday, installed the update, then put Nintendoland into the console only to discover my disc drive was all screwed it(I tried other games as well). The Wii U wouldn't recognize any discs that I put into it.
Called up Nintendo, they had me send it in for repairs. I received the notice today actually that my console was finished being repaired and was shipped back to me today.
I've been a life long Nintendo fan, but I was pretty disappointed to receive a broken system. I figure that stuff happens though, and Nintendo was pretty speedy about the repair. No harm done I guess.
Called up Nintendo, they had me send it in for repairs. I received the notice today actually that my console was finished being repaired and was shipped back to me today.
I've been a life long Nintendo fan, but I was pretty disappointed to receive a broken system. I figure that stuff happens though, and Nintendo was pretty speedy about the repair. No harm done I guess.
While i dont agree with nintendo's choice of hardware with Wii U..i am very disappointed but at least i can look forward to Nintendo's in-house exclusives which should look spectacular on this new machine and finally in HD, ..i do not expect to see Wii U have many hardware issues at all. I expect to see the true next gen consoles have more hardware failures overall.
I am holding off on buying a Wii U..until their 2nd/3rd gen in house titles start appearing..right now i just dont see any point..well i guess if i was a hardcore Nintendo fan i would pick it up day 1 but i am more of gamer of all platforms..so until i see a killer app for Wii U..i'll just have to hold off.
I still do NOT trust the world's economy right now..it's still on shaky ground..so Wii U will be a decent choice for those that will not have the money to splurge on these next gen consoles coming out next year..400 dollars at least for next gen consoles.
But good luck to those that already have a Wii U..looks like a fun innovative console..i like a lot of features it has that will bring a lot of new innovation to gaming, hopefully. Sorta wish i had one to tinker around with..always love it when a new console launches...
I am holding off on buying a Wii U..until their 2nd/3rd gen in house titles start appearing..right now i just dont see any point..well i guess if i was a hardcore Nintendo fan i would pick it up day 1 but i am more of gamer of all platforms..so until i see a killer app for Wii U..i'll just have to hold off.
I still do NOT trust the world's economy right now..it's still on shaky ground..so Wii U will be a decent choice for those that will not have the money to splurge on these next gen consoles coming out next year..400 dollars at least for next gen consoles.
But good luck to those that already have a Wii U..looks like a fun innovative console..i like a lot of features it has that will bring a lot of new innovation to gaming, hopefully. Sorta wish i had one to tinker around with..always love it when a new console launches...
Randolph Freelander
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Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
There's always bad consoles right out of the gate. Including DOA units in boxes.
Of course, the 360 was red-ringing from day one for some unlucky people (and obviously it got worse from there.)
I had my Wii U Gamepad stop working.
Wouldn't turn on, wouldn't charge, no display, and I didn't keep it on top of a "wine cooler".
Exchanged it at Best Buy (just the gamepad) and all was fine but yeah...was really odd. Googling it tells me that it might have just bricked itself when doing a Gamepad update or something when I wasn't noticing. >_>
Wouldn't turn on, wouldn't charge, no display, and I didn't keep it on top of a "wine cooler".
Exchanged it at Best Buy (just the gamepad) and all was fine but yeah...was really odd. Googling it tells me that it might have just bricked itself when doing a Gamepad update or something when I wasn't noticing. >_>
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They just had extra Gamepads laying around?
Classic_Gs
Member
Sorry to hear that, OP. I hope you get your NL disc back.
OJdaKiller
Member
Figured I'd also post this in here since it's about Wii U console problems.
Anyone else having issues with their Wii U reading discs when switching a game?
So far it only seems to happen for me with NSMBU. I play it, eject the disc and the system freezes. I tried exiting back out to the Wii U menu to switch, eject disc, insert new game, and it while it doesn't freeze it won't read the new game. If I power down and back on then it reads the game.
Not really sure what to make of this problem at this time. I just wrote Nintendo Customer Service/Support an email about the issue.
Anyone else having issues with their Wii U reading discs when switching a game?
So far it only seems to happen for me with NSMBU. I play it, eject the disc and the system freezes. I tried exiting back out to the Wii U menu to switch, eject disc, insert new game, and it while it doesn't freeze it won't read the new game. If I power down and back on then it reads the game.
Not really sure what to make of this problem at this time. I just wrote Nintendo Customer Service/Support an email about the issue.
gamergirly
Member
No, havent had that problem. Only one hardlock the entire time we've had the console. There is some lag here and there, mostly on Nintendoland
RobbieNick
Junior Member
7 Days? When I got a launch Wii, it malfunctioned the very first day and Nintendo replaced it in a day. I guess thier customer service isn't what it used to be.
OJdaKiller
Member
So how do you switch between games? Do you exit back out to the Wii U menu or just in game, eject the disc and put another one in? I know this is kind of a stupid question, but I'm more curious how my system is reacting as opposed to other owners.
6 days of shipping. They replaced and shipped it back the day they got it. Thanksgiving and a Sunday slowed things down.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Dear lord I hope this doesn't happen as often as the 360.
gamergirly
Member
Just hit the Home button and go to Wii U Menu. Then swap the games. I "think" you can swap the games while you have the current game paused, but I wouldnt swap until it's completely closed out
OJdaKiller
Member
Cool..I'll do it this way for some more testing to see if it's a game specific issue (what I was most recently playing) or if it happens across all games when I exit out..Only has happened with NSMBU thus far.
ouch, there's just some consoles that are destined to die from the start.
too bad for the OP
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I just about had a heart attack. I was trying to load the eShop (it keeps giving me an error), and it froze up the same way it did when my console bricked. I really did not want to unplug it again
Thankfully it didn't brick again...
Since Nintendo stole my Nintendo Land disc, I would really like to download NSMBU since I already paid for it, but there's no way to do that.
I just about had a heart attack. I was trying to load the eShop (it keeps giving me an error), and it froze up the same way it did when my console bricked. I really did not want to unplug it again
Thankfully it didn't brick again...
Since Nintendo stole my Nintendo Land disc, I would really like to download NSMBU since I already paid for it, but there's no way to do that.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
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I just about had a heart attack. I was trying to load the eShop (it keeps giving me an error), and it froze up the same way it did when my console bricked. I really did not want to unplug it again
Thankfully it didn't brick again...
Since Nintendo stole my Nintendo Land disc, I would really like to download NSMBU since I already paid for it, but there's no way to do that.
Eesh sorry to hear that man.
Dreamwriter
Member
Yeah, I had a launch Wii that was DOA - it functioned, but it would crash when reading certain sectors of the discs. Luckily I lived in Redmond, WA at the time, so could just drive over to Nintendo's customer support office and have them swap it out while I waited.
Square Triangle
Member
Mine bricked from simply going into the eshop and hitting eject on the system at the same time. It immediately went into the calibration screen with the four symbols on the gamepad, yet the TV showed a white screen.
Called Nintendo, they said it would need to get sent in, just took it back to Best Buy.
Called Nintendo, they said it would need to get sent in, just took it back to Best Buy.
Dreamwriter
Member
Eh? Did you somehow skip over the news that Nintendo migrated his account to the replacement console? Nintendo did this for the Wii, dunno why people would think they wouldn't for the Wii U.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I don't know about the Gamecube, but the Wii's launch really wasn't free of some common issues. There was a problem widespread enough to become known related to the GPU the launch batch of Wiis. The sides of the screen would begin to turn red and yellow, and then white dots would start to persist across the screen in random spots.
More than a few people got this, including me. I called Nintendo support and the rep I got hadn't heard of it personally yet, but when he checked trouble tickets in the system he found that it was a known issue they were receiving. I had a replacement system within a week.
However, I will say that the number of bricked consoles due to what sounds like a very buggy firmware revision is worrying. It sounds like units are bricking when various simultaneous operations occur that cause a conflict.
Negative, they swapped it out with a gamepad for another console. They were trying to get me to exchange my console too but I explained to them how save data/account information is kinda stuck on the previous Wii U and the manager budged. >_>
Out of Working Order
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Thread title should be: 'My Wii U died, and U shall all hear my story'.
Someone will probably recieve that controller.
Someone will probably recieve that controller.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Let us not forget.
Wow that was a lifetime ago
My console has had 8 hard locks so (1 from ZombiU, 1 from NSMBU, and 6 from Nintendo Land). I'm convinced it has to do with the online integration. It only freezes for me when I either push the home button and it loads notifications from Nintendo (it'll have a flashing MiiVerse icon if there's new notifications or it'll tell you if you have friends online), enter an online related app (eShop/Miiverse), or when it loads in MiiVerse posts while in-game (like in Nintendo Land or NSMBU). I'm really hoping it's not hardware related because I remember having a nightmare with the Wii breaking (GPU and disc slot problems) and I don't want to relive that with the Wii U. Hopefully we get a patch soon.
Darko
Member
whoa.. slow down there... lets get nintendoland working first.
It sounds like customer service has the ability to send you a new console in a state with the ability to transfer any NNID over to it. It's a little different than how people were assuming that it would work - that Nintendo would transfer your account to a new system and then send the system to you.
Yeah. My account wasn't preinstalled on the system. I put in my info and linked my NNID.
It was the option.
Arkam
Member
Idk I think it's pretty decent all things considered. Definetly way better than the launch ps3 system software. I mean that was a real crap show at launch and look at it now, give Nintendo a little time.
Oh it is huh? Well I'm very proud a ya!
evil solrac v3.0
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any luck on downloading the game yet?
fabricated backlash
Member
So they are transfarring your NNID as expected. Still clumsy as all hell but at least we have a precedent now for what's happening to your account when you send it in to repair.