SporeCrawler
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so is there any anecdotal evidence how this thing is doing a day before black friday?
Just bought a Wii U. Surprisingly, there were no shortages.
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Since there seem to be a reasonable number of people here considering a Wii U this Christmas, I'll post some of the discounts I've found (UK only, I'm afraid).
Best Wii U price I've got so far is Smyth's Toy Store at £199. It's been cheaper, but if you do it through TopCashBack in the next day or two, you should get a 5% (~£10) discount. It's the Premium model with Nintendoland, btw.
You can get Wind Waker for £30, Rayman Legends and Splinter Cell for a frankly ridiculous £15 each from Zavvi, plus 5% off for new accounts if you use a referral code (easy to find anywhere online). There are also frequently discount codes for an additional 5-10% off around this time of year, so keep your eyes open. You can stack the 5% referral discount with a promotional code, handily.
You can pre-order Watch Dogs for ~£31 and DK: Tropical Freeze for ~£29 from WowHD. Never seen any relevant voucher codes for WowHD, but their TopCashBack rate is a slightly above average 4%.
If you guys are interested in this sort of thing, I'll pop back whenever any other noteworthy discounts are found. Been some decent ones lately though, my usual ports of call are Base.com, WowHD, Zavvi and HotUKDeals. The great thing about being a British Wii U owner is that, if you're prepared to put in some legwork, it's relatively easy to assemble a library of good games for ridiculously low prices.
Best Wii U price I've got so far is Smyth's Toy Store at £199. It's been cheaper, but if you do it through TopCashBack in the next day or two, you should get a 5% (~£10) discount. It's the Premium model with Nintendoland, btw.
You can get Wind Waker for £30, Rayman Legends and Splinter Cell for a frankly ridiculous £15 each from Zavvi, plus 5% off for new accounts if you use a referral code (easy to find anywhere online). There are also frequently discount codes for an additional 5-10% off around this time of year, so keep your eyes open. You can stack the 5% referral discount with a promotional code, handily.
You can pre-order Watch Dogs for ~£31 and DK: Tropical Freeze for ~£29 from WowHD. Never seen any relevant voucher codes for WowHD, but their TopCashBack rate is a slightly above average 4%.
If you guys are interested in this sort of thing, I'll pop back whenever any other noteworthy discounts are found. Been some decent ones lately though, my usual ports of call are Base.com, WowHD, Zavvi and HotUKDeals. The great thing about being a British Wii U owner is that, if you're prepared to put in some legwork, it's relatively easy to assemble a library of good games for ridiculously low prices.
Latency thing? What latency thing?
Ok, so I bought a 32 gig model and downloaded Mario World.
Now the system is telling me I only have 12 gigs of free space? What is going on? I go to the data management screen, and it only shows Mario World installed which is 1.1 gigs...
Does the Wii system software take up 18 gigs of space?
Now the system is telling me I only have 12 gigs of free space? What is going on? I go to the data management screen, and it only shows Mario World installed which is 1.1 gigs...
Does the Wii system software take up 18 gigs of space?
Gamer @ Heart
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You only have 25GB or so of usable space on the deluxe, so something else must be taking up space. Is nothing else listed under the data management?
Edit: Updates delete themselves and the OS only reserves about 4 GB, so it is really hard to explain.
Yeah, I have no idea what is going on...
What latency? aiming? yep i have a hard time aiming with dual analog...i think it may be that....the biggest crime here is not having wiimote support for using when in cover mode. You can almost taste how it would work.
They updated it. That's nice, gonna try it later today.
Did you maybe not notice that you enabled auto-downloads and now have all the demos on the eShop auto-downloaded along with Wii Fit U trial, Wii Sports Club? You definitely have more stuff on there. You just need to figure out what.
Here_Try_This
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Perfect. Thanks for the clarification. Now i'm just trying to remember how the sd card saves worked for the wii, guess ill see what happens when i stick that sd card in.
Currently waiting for my gamepad to charge. Then on to software updates i suppose
Thanks again for all the help everyone.
I think I know what caused it-
I tried to download Wonderful 101, and it's 13 gigs. It told me there wasn't enough space to download it, and when I went to look it seems it already took the 13 gigs it needed. I erased SMW and it started the download. I'm hoping that when it's done, there will still be 12 gigs left on the drive after it installs itself.
Very weird that it would continue to take the space it needed even after it failed to download and I went back to the regular WiiU menu.
Your whole Wii data gets packed up and moved over. That includes saves. Saves are stored in the system memory. You could manually move Wii saves back and forth between Wii and Wii U's Wii mode but why would you? At least it's useless for the transfer. The transfer app also moves those locked-saves like Brawl. So that's one disadvantage since you'd need to either use homebrew to make a (not really legal) backup of your Wii system data to restore post transfer or unlock characters again if you are a hardcore Smash guy who can only deal with a GCN controller, for example.
Freeza Under The Shower
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robots can't do this:
so they are unworthy of Contra. It's good they did see that and changed the name accordingly.
Here_Try_This
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Ah right, i just remember backing up some VC saves or something to my SD card since i was out of memory. Yea i don't even have a GCN controller anymore so that's not an issue.
Any difference in gamepad charge times betwen the charging cradle vs. without? Manual just says you can use either
Dont even know what latency means, but the game is fantastic.
Aiming with the dual analog is as bad as aiming with a dual analog in any game.
But to make things harder, i turned off "aiming assist", because i hate aiming with dual analogs but i hate it more this "aiming assst" thing they cram into the game to hide the fact that dual analog aiming is a disaster
Wiimote controls could make this game perfect. But i was playing it off-tv yesterday while watching the soccer game on the tv and it was so nice i forgive the lack of wiimote support
Charging is charging. If you plug the cable into the cradle or the cable into the GamePad doesn't matter except not using the cradle is silly.
You probably moved the actual VC games around as saves are tiny. You will have to re-download all games that are not on the Wii system memory at the time of the transfer. So if you have a lot of VC games, put all the small ones onto the system memory so you don't have to download that many.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
So do I need to transfer my Wii's data over to the WiiU right away? I dunno if transfering my Wii's stuff over later is going to result in my WiiU save data and downloads getting overwritten... But obviously, I would like to avoid that and other undesirable consequences.
SkullHydra
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Is it true that NSMBU doesn't allow multiplayer with the gamepad? Dang. I got the Mario bundle on eBay with an extra controller (And Wii Play U) for Christmas, and was hoping to be able to play it with my younger sisters. (I have two leftover Wii Remotes from my old Wii) I guess I'm going to have to buy an extra controller then. =/
I was planning on grabbing the Metroid Prime Trilogy [$40], Darksiders 2 for PS3 since it's so much cheaper [$13], and ZombiU [$10]. That would take up the rest of my spending money. But since I now need another controller, I'll probably end up grabbing a used Wii Remote instead of ZombiU. V_V
I was planning on grabbing the Metroid Prime Trilogy [$40], Darksiders 2 for PS3 since it's so much cheaper [$13], and ZombiU [$10]. That would take up the rest of my spending money. But since I now need another controller, I'll probably end up grabbing a used Wii Remote instead of ZombiU. V_V
You don't NEED to do anything. You can do a transfer whenever you want. The Wii data does NOTHING to any Wii U data. Wii Mode is COMPLETELY separate form anything Wii U related. When you enter Wii mode you boot into the original Wii UI.
NSMBU can be play 5-player with 4 players using Wii Remotes. In multiplayer, the gamepad can ONLY be used for the Boost Block player. If you want to play the characters, you need a Wiimote for each.
I'd buy this game if it had Wiimote controls, but no matter how cheap it gets (and it's very, very cheap in the UK), I'm not going to support developers ignoring the single best FPS control method in favour of a slower, less precise but more popular alternative.
DashReindeer
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You're actually achieving the complete opposite of what you want by voting with your money in that manner. Instead of getting more shooters with Wiimote controls, you'll get fewer because devs will bring fewer shooters to the system. It's definitely your prerogative to skip this game, but I love it, and I would want to see more games like this on the system in the future. A shooter made for the Wii U at least has the potential for Wiimote controls. A shooter that skips the Wii U completely has no chance of having them at all. Buying games like this, but then being vocal about wanting Wiimote aiming seems like the best way to get what you want.
Brian Davis
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With the new @YouTube app update, Android & iOS devices can send (@RonBurgundy) videos straight to the Wii U! pic.twitter.com/tqTNlOV2X4
FallingEdge
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Anyone try using Homebrew on the vWii?
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Great. I get to open up my WiiU tomorrow, so yeah, I was hoping I could just dive right into Super Mario 3D World and leave the other nonsense for later. But I'm obviously going to dump all my WiiWare games onto the WiiU and kick the Wii to the curb. Better video hardware on the WiiU, and all that.
Windom Earle
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Just grabbed Contra III on WiiU VC. The glorious 'Alien Wars' of 2636, in 1080p, all over my face!
Didn't see any fan WiiU miiverse artwork yet for Jimbo, Sully, Slave Beast Taka (turtle boss), or Big Faust (legendary video game boss & terminator rip-off who traps you in a room, trying to kill you with his flamethrower mouth and timed explosives).
Curious if Nintendo gave a more concrete timetable on that 3DS miiverse/eshop update (outside of just "sometime next month"), that joins account balance from 3DS to WiiU? I wanted to use my 3DS balance to grab Earthbound on WiiU Virtual Console. Glorious Earthbound in 1080p. *Drool*
Now...just waiting a few hours to head to Best Buy for a cheap copy of ZombiU for WiiU.
Didn't see any fan WiiU miiverse artwork yet for Jimbo, Sully, Slave Beast Taka (turtle boss), or Big Faust (legendary video game boss & terminator rip-off who traps you in a room, trying to kill you with his flamethrower mouth and timed explosives).
Curious if Nintendo gave a more concrete timetable on that 3DS miiverse/eshop update (outside of just "sometime next month"), that joins account balance from 3DS to WiiU? I wanted to use my 3DS balance to grab Earthbound on WiiU Virtual Console. Glorious Earthbound in 1080p. *Drool*
Now...just waiting a few hours to head to Best Buy for a cheap copy of ZombiU for WiiU.
It was worth it for me at $60 so for $39 it's a awesome deal, I would absolutely go for it at that price if I didn't own it already.
I'm not really interested in playing it without Wiimote aiming, as I already have it on PC and going to dual analogues after mouse/keyboard is too great a regression. To be completely honest, at this point I have no interest in any FPS' as long as they use dual analogues. I own both COD games on the console and got the Wii U in a ZombiU bundle, so (apart from ZombiU) I'm supporting the genre on the system, just not the ones which don't offer me what I'm looking for.
LiveFromKyoto
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It's one of the best games on this or any system this year, it's freaking amazing. Everyone should check it out, shame it shipped in so few numbers.
I've put a ton of hours into the game and never heard of nor experienced such a thing, so I'll say no.
SoraanTribal
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I just ordered it, too. I watched a few videos before buying, and it looks really fun/interesting. I've never played a Pikmin game, so I was a little worried I might not like it. But it does look quite fun.
Jaded Alyx
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megabytecr
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I am heavy into Mario, finishing SM3DL special worlds, playing SM3DW and yeah shame on me I have to finish SMG2, don't know why I left it behind.
I am more of a Mario guy but want to get into Zelda series. Already got WW HD but I want to get a 3DS Zelda, so what should I get, OoT (never played it) or the new one ALBW?
Also I enjoyed CoD BOs 2 a lot but I am on the fence on Ghosts. There are no quality videos around. I need at least one go to MP game, but I might just pick other quality game, still no Pikmin 3 or W101.
I am more of a Mario guy but want to get into Zelda series. Already got WW HD but I want to get a 3DS Zelda, so what should I get, OoT (never played it) or the new one ALBW?
Also I enjoyed CoD BOs 2 a lot but I am on the fence on Ghosts. There are no quality videos around. I need at least one go to MP game, but I might just pick other quality game, still no Pikmin 3 or W101.
Mauricio_Magus
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Play Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask(best Zelda ever, but it should never be your first Zelda, it's a direct sequel to OoT so play it after you finish it)
Frankenstrat
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Edit: Getting a basic unit tomorrow. Time to get HYPE
Up to you which one you get first, but you should get both of them still. As far as ghosts it's not a bad game, there's certain things that I would like to see fixed on the online side, dedicated servers is one of them, but the treyarch dev said they were coming just no set date yet. other than that the game is ok.
Thanks for the heads up.
The first two are really great, so I have no doubt that this one will be awesome too
FallingEdge
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Is it better to get MH3 for the 3DS or WiiU? Or are they basically the same game and that it just comes down to how I want to play the game?
Gamer @ Heart
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Same game content wise except the Wii u version has an online component which makes it easier to enjoy the coop/multiplayer missions unless you have local friends who are also into MH. You can still access those alone, but playing with others is like half the MH experience.
Also, holding a regular controller over holding a 3DS is much more comfortable. Especially for the marathon sessions I find myself in with this game
SpecialAgentZ
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Just bought
Now I'm ready to rock
Now I'm ready to rock
SporeCrawler
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bequietdrive
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Amazon UK do a premium with two free games ( can chose from games like Rayman Legends , Splinter Cell, Zombi U) for £239.99, so not bad at all.
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