# Wii U launch **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 16, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149 "2012-11-16T01:20:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/21 "2012-11-20T19:54:42Z")
> [@ReticulatingSplines](#): > > You can turn it off in the Home menu under Controller Settings. Yeah, I tried that, but the screen turns back on as soon as you press a button. ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/22 "2012-11-20T21:03:11Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Yeah, I tried that, but the screen turns back on as soon as you press a button. Ah. Well, admittedly I haven’t tried it myself. I’m still in the 47-step update/registration/system transfer process. God I hate Nintendo sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/23 "2012-11-20T21:24:54Z")
Really? I mean, the update was really slow, but I found the registration process more or less painless. I haven’t bothered to do a system transfer yet (and I hope my homebrew doesn’t mess it up when I do decide to do it). ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/24 "2012-11-20T21:57:03Z")
You have to have both systems hooked up. The Wii U won’t let you do things on its end without the Wiimote, so if you only have one you have to sync it back and forth between Wii and Wii U. That’s only the tip of the iceberg too. I don’t understand why they couldn’t just do a cloud storage type thing. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/25 "2012-11-23T22:15:17Z")
Did you get ZombiU? Do you actually have to spin around like they show in the ads, facing away from the TV? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/26 "2012-11-23T23:08:54Z")
ZombiU got mostly mediocre to poor reviews. I’m a tad surprised because it was pretty hyped up after the previews. Guess it just didn’t hold up to long play sessions. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/27 "2012-11-24T01:15:44Z")
The ZombiU reviews were pretty spread out. [MetaCritic](http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/zombiu/critic-reviews) has it as 16 positive / 10 mixed / 1 negative. From reading posts online, a lot of people seem to be extremely happy with it. Some of them (and the game’s developers) are claiming that the reviewers are trying to play it as an action game when it’s intended as a survival horror. I haven’t tried it, so I can’t say. My Wii U was delivered today. After going through the interminable update process, I’m very happy with the small amount I’ve played of NintendoLand and Mario. The comments about the slowness of the transitions in the main OS are spot on, though, so hopefully that gets ironed out. Nintendo still seems to have these weird backwards approaches to some things. My comment today was that it feels like being ten years in the future and ten years in the past at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/28 "2012-11-29T12:07:08Z")
i bought three in the first week, hoping i could make a profit off the two i was planning to sell. i’m going to hold out until two weeks from christmas, but i’m not so confident that the wii u is that hard to find or even in demand as past consoles at release. i do love the tablet controller though, but having a high end gaming rig and a steam sale the same time the wii u comes out is bad news! it doesn’t help there’s not any compelling software out for it yet. the new SMB game is fun, but it’s still just a super mario game. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149/29 "2012-12-14T09:22:31Z")
So I FINALLY got time to play games today, and had a bad and good experience with the Wii U: Bad: My kitties chewed through the AC adapter for the Wii U Tablet. Unfortunately, it appears that the cord is not sold in any stores. At all. I went to Gamestop, Target, and Best Buy and none of them had the wall adapter. Luckily Best Buy (but none of the other places) had a Nyko cord that was USB. I would have preferred a wall-charger, but the USB will have to do for now I guess. It’s kind of obnoxious that I can’t just go out and buy another one. Good: I was trying out some demos today, and believe me, I never thought I’d say this being a hater on people who keep buying Madden and stuff year after year, FIFA 13 for the Wii U is really good. It makes extensive use of the touch pad, which sounds like a terribad idea for a real-time sports game, but it allows you to make precision passes and goals instead of relying on the rather dodgy button passes. I’m still terrible at it (granted the one game I played ended 1-0 in my favor). It was surprisingly fun and the Wii U controller really, really bolstered gameplay in a game that I couldn’t have fathomed using the tablet until today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wii-u-launch/641149.md?page=1)