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[iosef]

Set up the Wii U this evening (preordered, but was traveling all week). Played a bunch of ZombiU, NSMBU, and Nintendoland tonight and everything's fun, but... It seems like the Wii U gamepad screen has a pretty strong yellow tint. if I step away for something, come back, and look only at the gamepad, I don't really notice it -- but when I hold the thing up with the TV screen in the background, the contrast between white (on the TV) and yellowish white (on the gamepad) is rather severe.

Just me or do other folks have this? Think Nintendo would accept a gamepad return if it doesn't magically disappear from, I dunno, the phosphors aging or something?

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Return it and get another one. It's not supposed to be like that. Mine isn't.

 

[VertPin]

Return it.

 

[Ban Puncher]

Turn up the yellow tint on your TV screen to match.

 

[The Mana Legend]

Mine does not. It's clear as fuck.

 

[JeffGrubb]

Urine joke

 

[freddy]

Stop smoking.

 

[hachi]

Are you sure you didn't pick up a 3DS XL in place of the gamepad?

 

[sixteen-bit]

Probably a defect.

 

[NinjaTehFish]

No Pee jokes? good.

Urine a lot of trouble if you make bad pee jokes.....

 

[Ninja Scooter]

it's the reward you get for collecting all the coins in New Super Mario Bros. U

 

[drspeedy]

No Pee jokes? good.

Urine a lot of trouble if you make bad pee jokes.....

at least they're not racial.

Spoiler

yet. See "mini-Wii" thread for details!

 

[Oidisco]

Are you sure you don't have Power-Saver or whatever it's called on? I don't have a Wii U, but I know it has it and if it's anything like the 3DS, it makes the screen have a slight yellow tint.

 

[hoverboarder]

Take a picture and we can compare it. GAF is here to help.

 

[onQ123]

Your Wii U Pissed itself! (Happy now I made a Wii Piss joke )

 

[Why would you do that?]

Turn up the yellow tint on your TV screen to match.

lol I like this answer.

 

[BocoDragon]

You're seeing it based on a comparison to your TV?

Well who's to say that it's supposed to have the same color as your TV? The TV settings are highly changeable too.

I wouldn't expect the same look on both screens...

 

[StopMakingSense]

Your TV is probably set to a very cool (blue) white balance. (Most TV's, out of the box, are)

 

[Alpha_Tango]

Hey OP, my gamepad's screen is also yellowish compared to my TV's screen. However, I don't notice the yellow tint when I'm using the gamepad by itself. I also compared my gamepad's screen with my friend's gamepad's screen and they were both the same. So I think all the gamepad screens are like that.

Like others mentioned, we're probably just used to the cooler temperature of our TV's screen. I changed my TV's color temperature to the warmest setting to try to match the color temperature of the gamepad. The gamepad's screen is still a little warmer, but it's not as bad as before.

 

[totowhoa]

More than likely you have your TV set up in such a way that it doesn't match. My Gamepad was slightly off (slight orange tint, which is similar to your yellow... my TV was set to display cooler tones) but I figured it was due to some slight custom tweaks I'd made to my TV for the game setting. I just reworked the settings a little bit for my Wii U's input so that they matched up fine.

If your Gamepad is like crazy yellow or something, then it's certainly defective. But it's probably just a discrepancy in your configurations.

 

[iosef]

Waited a week to see if I could live with dat yellow tint and decided I couldn't. Just called Nintendo customer support with the issue. They started with the usual ("have you changed the screen brightness?") and then the nice lady on the other end read out the two additional resolutions that seemed to be in her system, which were "is there a screen protector on it" (no) and "have you cleaned it" (lolz). After that she read a stock paragraph about how variations in the LCD manufacturing process can lead to color differences and one gamepad looking different from another yadda yadda yadda and offered to do free replacement in the usual Nintendo fashion. Service was prompt and thoughtful throughout. Turnaround time is expected to be two weeks, will let you know if I get a second yellow curse.

 

[Nemo]

Waited a week to see if I could live with dat yellow tint and decided I couldn't. Just called Nintendo customer support with the issue. They started with the usual ("have you changed the screen brightness?") and then the nice lady on the other end read out the two additional resolutions that seemed to be in her system, which were "is there a screen protector on it" (no) and "have you cleaned it" (lolz). After that she read a stock paragraph about how variations in the LCD manufacturing process can lead to color differences and one gamepad looking different from another yadda yadda yadda and offered to do free replacement in the usual Nintendo fashion. Service was prompt and thoughtful throughout. Turnaround time is expected to be two weeks, will let you know if I get a second yellow curse.

Weird, they say explicitly they don't do replacements of tinted screens with the 3DS, they do for WiiU tho?

 

[iosef]

Weird, they say explicitly they don't do replacements of tinted screens with the 3DS, they do for WiiU tho?

I did not know that they didn't do this for the 3DS.

Curious to see what response someone else gets should they encounter the same problem. Seems pretty isolated as I saw some previews talking about occasional yellow gamepads but Google indicates it's really rare for actual commercial units.

 

[playingwithfire]

Mine has a very slight yellow tint, only when compared to my TV. But I dont notice it at all when I have the TV off.

So I don't think it's a defect unless yours is mega yellow.

 

[gkryhewy]

Probably not an actual defect. The gamepad screens are designed to have a warm color temperature, similar to the 3DS XL.

 

[TheGreyHulk]

the color temperature is more warm than cool, so the white is shifted more to the red spectrum than the blue spectrum which gives you that more yellowish look.

mine is more yellow when compared to my tv. it will not match your tv

 

[iosef]

Probably not an actual defect. The gamepad screens are designed to have a warm color temperature, similar to the 3DS XL.

Mine was quite yellow when compared to my 3DS XL...

 

[WonkyPanda]

No difference between my screen and my tv. If you don't have your color temperature set to
'warm,' then you're doing it wrong.

 

[Kyou]

Wasn't there a thing with iPads having a yellow tint because the glue used to make them hadnt completely cured yet?