This Wii U was almost thrown out by GameStop... how bad is it really?

I love how the actual console itself had no problems

I absolutely love that finding a disc in it implies the console was thrown out without much thought lmak

The Wii U has absolutely got to be the most clumsy, misguided device I have ever owned. I love it so much.

The Wii U's web browser was AWESOME. You just had to change the user agent to Android. You could browse the web, use the gamepad to read text if it was too small on the TV, have a video up on the screen while you continued to browse other sites on the gamepad, have plenty of tabs etc... It worked with almost every video sharing site which is more than I can say for ANY other console browser. It was the best TV web browsing experience I have ever had hands down.

"Worst selling console" cue the Virtual Boy hiding behind a corner, furiously sweating

He gave the Wii U another chance at life. This does put a smile on my face.

Reminds me of the time my mom bought me a PS2 at some yard sale. Apparently, the owners couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so they sold it for $20. Get it home, the thing is like brand new, almost out of the box condition, and even had a game inside!

The Wii U was my first console and it holds literally all of my childhood nostalgia. My neighbours and I would play Go Vacation and Mario kart for hours everyday after school and through the holidays. I still have it and a few weeks ago after literally 7 years we re booted it and played some of the games again. The nostalgia hit hard. Also that gamepad was always fought over! The wii U and gamepad is still proudly displayed next to my TV.

Reminds me of the time I bought a perfectly usable Wii at a flea market for 4 bucks No seriously, guy said it was for parts but when I plugged everything it worked just fine, it even had Guitar Hero songs on it lol

Nintendo did a similar thing with earlier models of PAL SNES consoles. They region locked the controller ports. You had to use European (and Australian) controllers or they wouldn't get recognized otherwise.

13:10: Note that your Wii U over the Wii U's HDMI cable has WORSE output than a Wii using the Nintendo component cables or a good Wii2HDMI adapter ($16). This has been proven over and over again, including here on Youtube. So sure, it can run them natively over the HDMI cable, but they look worse than on my 2006 Wii with OEM component cables to my 2016 Samsung TV. And there's no mod for that. It's just something all Wii U owners must accept. The Wii is still the best way to play Wii and GC games.

Tbh, the Wii U was actually a great, underappreciated console. Even I passed on it at the time, though I now own the zelda special edition one.

Trust me when I say those scratches on the Wii U are literally just how the console gets. Mine since 2014 has literally been sitting on stands. No animals, nobody in my house has been clawing at the casing. It's like Nintendo scratched the consoles themselves, said oh shit, put some invisible paint over it that wears off after a few years and the consoles reveal the scratches. I honestly don't have an explanation for it.

"The switch hasn't been busted wide open like the wiiu" Dude we have bootrom level arbitrary code execution what more do you want?

I was working for a tow company and had a car going for scrap that had a Wii U and pad in the trunk, Nobody else wanted it so I took it home, I haven't done anything with it yet since I don't have any of the cable or power adapter for it. This video has inspired me to get said wires and have some fun with it. Thanks for the video and keep the content coming.... A new subscriber

damn its really gonna be 10 years, a decade in the next month. i vividly remember seeing it at a christmas party in 2012 being gifted to someone else, and i felt so jealous and sad, typical for my age at that time. but i remember that moment like it happened yesterday, i remember the way the room smelled, the people talking and laughing, and the sense of happiness with a magical feeling that only happened on christmas. now thats all gone, now im working at a circle k not far from the lonesome freeway, typing this on my typewriter that echoes with each letter pressed into this dark abyss called circle k. and i spend my time lost in this memory as i mindlessly put the hot dogs on the hot rollers, and watch the hot dogs rotate. the hot dogs hot temperature meets my cold skin and its winking at me with its shiny reflection. rotating, over and over and over again.

12:42 Hey Matt, try out Meguiars Scratch-X for removing scratches from glossy plastic. Just some of that and a microfiber towel, you're good to go. Works wonderfully, I made an original PS3 look like new that way. Just make sure not to get it in crevices, can be kinda annoying/difficult to clean out. Edit: though I wouldn't expect to make this look like new super easily, you could improve it for sure.

im like a third of the way through and already i cant begin to describe how refreshing it is to just see someone acknowledge nintendo's shitty business practices

Just fyi, sometimes windex can take the protective later off some LCD screens. The company I work for did some extensive testing on cleaners for equipment and monitors and found a glass cleaner called bonami that doesn't affect that layer and does a good job of cleaning pretty much everything. Just make sure you use it with ventilation; it doesn't smell nice and the smell sticks in your nose for a while.

6:48 It's like you read my live journal.