Great price for this. Heated!

Very good option for someone who wants to play BOTW and other big Nintendo games like MK8 etc without the £300+ needed for the Switch....

Hi! The Wii U consists of two parts and one part doesn't work without the other: there's the main console where you put the games disks (on the right in the picture at the top of this page) and the gamepad which has a screen and a built in controller (on the left). If you want to play single player game, you're guaranteed of getting a controller becuase it's built into the gamepad. If you want to play multiplayer games you might want to look at an additional controller. The wii-mote and nunchuck from the original Wii are completely compatible with the Wii U and can be bought quite cheaply second-hand. All the original Wii games will also play on the Wii u - lots of cheap games!

The premium version of the wii u is black and comes with 32GB of memory built-in and a charging cradle for the gamepad. The basic version is white and only has 8GB of memory. Those are basically the only two versions of the Wii u available. The extra memory doesn't affect the performance of the games. Wii U games run straight from the disk, they don't need to be installed on the consoles memory like on an XBOX or Playstation. You only need the extra memory if you're looking to download games from the Nintendo Digital Shop (they have some quite tempting sales).

This deal is for the black Premium console, which is the one I had. I think it looks nicer that the white, and I found the extra memory useful (although I did eventually put a USB drive in the back anyway).

No grading info is a put off.

Great price for this. Heated!

Very good option for someone who wants to play BOTW and other big Nintendo games like MK8 etc without the £300+ needed for the Switch....

No grading info is a put off.

Hot! I love my WiiU way more than my Switch.

Get Scribble on WiiU! Brilliant game for groups or parties.

I bought the Wii u from game, I have a ps4 pro and Xbox one and litrelly I haven't been of the Wii u. I've spent more on games than the cost of the switch console and don't regret it.
I'm just getting all the gems before they go up in price.
Plus I've bought many amiibos I'm addicted haha. :smile:

Hot deal for a Hot console (though ordering through Game gives you £2.00 reward points), but when I ordered some Wii U games from grainger I found the website very slow and then they didn't have one of the games I ordered after all, but they did contact me and refund me. Though the games took a while to be delivered. I guess they are a much smaller outfit than Game or the other big names, but they deffo need to invest in better online infrastructure.

My little relatives love the Wii U, it's so refreshing to play Yoshi Wooly world, Mario Kart 8 and Nintendo land in 2 player splitscreen and have fun like we all used to before online became the main focus. COD, Assasins Creed and Splinter Cell are on it aswell, and being able to play on the gamepad screen with headphones is practical and immersive. Really what let it down was very poor marketing, a silly name (just calling it Wii 2 would of increased sales) and maybe a slightly underpowered CPU that made porting games more of a chore for lazy devs. Ram and GPU are far superior to PS3 and X360. The online eshop store is also abit meh and the prices are pretty extortionate when all the games are cheaper in physical form and the indies are cheaper on other platforms.

still waiting for them to deliver dark souls 3 I ordered over a week ago...

I bought a preowned wii u and recommend it. I couldn't justify the full RRP they charged, but there's still many decent titles I never played. Until the switch gets more titles, then I'd say a preowned Wii U is a better buy.

I play on my Wii U more often than the PS4. The games are just pure fun and don't take themselves too serious. I can play Breath Of The Wild, Twilight Princess, Windwaker, Mario Kart 8, Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong, Pikmin and Metroid Prime Trilogy on a machine that costs less than £100. :smile:

I put homebrew on my WiiU this week and works perfect, they have finally cracked it properly, 500gb HDD and your away! It is still a little risky though.

Games I play all the time:

MK8
Splatoon
Super Mario

JUST PURE FUN!

Any hard drive should work and the Wii U supports 1tb. The problem you're probably having is with power - the Wii U's USB ports don't provide enough power for a portable hard drive (one that's powered just by the USB ports) so you will need to either a) use an external (mains powered) hard drive or b) get a Y-shaped USB cable for the drive you already have that will allow you to get power from two USB ports.


You can mess with redNAND all you want - that's what it's for. It's sysNAND you've got to be careful with. But the hacking methods are relatively simple and there are some foolproof guides out there so you shouldn't even need redNAND unless you want to develop your own hacks or homebrew on the console.



Yeah, seriously, the only advantage I see the Switch having is its portability. It's great being able to switch from playing Zelda on the TV to the Gamepad, the only downside is the streaming signal doesn't reach very far. But considering the much bigger library of games I'm happy to live with it for a few more years until I've finished all the Wii U games I have and there are some more must-haves on the Switch. My Wii U was gathering dust for a while, but now that I'm into it I'm really into it.

I recently purchased an unboxed wii U from grainger games, took a long time to be dispatched and I know it was listed as unboxed but when it turned up loose in just a cheap bubble envelope all ripped I was not impressed

My son wants one of these for Spratton, great price

Good point with the USB, wasn't aware of that. Will order a Y cable and give it a go. Saves me buying another HDD.

Cheers!

I was a fan of the Nintendo Wii. Last year I got the Wii U and it is absolute rubbish. Games like Donkey Kong Freeze and Mario World are so hard they become unplayable. Every time I look at this worthless console I want to give it a good, hard kick.

It gets everyone who tries to connect a portable HDD to their Wii U - I went through the same thing of trying to figure out why my HDD wasn't working until it was pointed out to me, so glad to pass the advice on! In fact I need to order another one so I can add a second hard drive to have one for Wii/GameCube games as well. Only then I'll have no USB ports left...

It's not a hard game except the last few stages on world crown, Mystery House Marathon and Champion's Road if your 7 year old beat them levels that is seriously impressive as they compare to some of the harder stages of super meat boy which is a very hard game to beat.

£110 in CEX. A tenner more but you can have a look before you buy.

Sorry, I meant Super Mario Bros, not Mario World.

Hi everyone, i want to order/collect this but does anyone know if it comes with a controller? Is this the premium version or the basic one? (Is there a difference?

Thank you in advance

We run an hdd off our wii, 250gb 2.5inch and only need to plug in one of the usb y leads leaving the other usb free for other things.

Is it easy for us to use the same ydd with the wii u keeping all the same games on it?

Hi! The Wii U consists of two parts and one part doesn't work without the other: there's the main console where you put the games disks (on the right in the picture at the top of this page) and the gamepad which has a screen and a built in controller (on the left). If you want to play single player game, you're guaranteed of getting a controller becuase it's built into the gamepad. If you want to play multiplayer games you might want to look at an additional controller. The wii-mote and nunchuck from the original Wii are completely compatible with the Wii U and can be bought quite cheaply second-hand. All the original Wii games will also play on the Wii u - lots of cheap games!

The premium version of the wii u is black and comes with 32GB of memory built-in and a charging cradle for the gamepad. The basic version is white and only has 8GB of memory. Those are basically the only two versions of the Wii u available. The extra memory doesn't affect the performance of the games. Wii U games run straight from the disk, they don't need to be installed on the consoles memory like on an XBOX or Playstation. You only need the extra memory if you're looking to download games from the Nintendo Digital Shop (they have some quite tempting sales).

This deal is for the black Premium console, which is the one I had. I think it looks nicer that the white, and I found the extra memory useful (although I did eventually put a USB drive in the back anyway).

Got one instore yesterday from grainger games, it was priced at £99 but went through at £98.99.
The gamepad is in great condition and the main unit has a couple of light scratches, the stand, hdmi lead etc are all
there.

I got Zelda botw and its great, no need for switch yet. I have the main unit upstairs and was surprised that the gamepad worked downstairs as I thought the range would be short.

I think I will give the switch till next year to build up its game library and until then I will play this to death with its huge back catalog, my 4 year old loves it :smile:

excellent!! cheers!!!

Wow thank you so much this was very useful

It's. Pre owned why so much heat

Just got a Wii U, mrs has one already, played 4 player Mario Kart with kids, defo a win win, have PS4 and XBOX One, and for fun games Wii U wins hands down

Botw is a superb game. Kept kids hooked for weeks.

Also some classic Nintendo games e.g. Spaltoon mk8 super smash bros

Have some heat

i know you can play wii u games via sd card , can it now be done via hard drive too

Game has the black 32GB for 99£. I got mine in really good condition

If i put homebrew onto my wii u, will it still function all the same, i.e can i still use my game cds and still play online? Thanks

I love seeing love for Nintendo products. People still think they're for kids and don't understand they really are about gaming and that's why they've rejected the awful, awful achievement systems that add grind and not joy. Nintendo really are trying to keep gaming pure compared to most companies.

i finaly have one to mod now i wanted a cheap one and 99£ is a bargain (mind you i have 2 new ones still in the box unopened) any1 know of a site for a stable mod as the last time i looked most were unstable

£109.99

What is the mod scene like now? I tried it 2 years ago on loadiine but only a handful of games worked and it was a luborious process.

what exactly do you get from modding the console? Can you make it play GameCube games or something? I would be very interested in that

Cold - £110

Bargain

Was tempted on this but waited too long! Site says its £109.99 now?

Traded mine in a cex for a profit now I'll buy another

So why have the console?

Free games

Thinking of getting this for my 7 year old. how easy is it to mod?

The price of the white and the black units have switched around so I suspect its been a misprice for a few days.

It will still have all normal functions - so, yes, it will still play games from disc and still work online. There's a chance that Nintendo might start banning people from online in future but it doesn't seem to be happening as of yet.


If you're running games from SD card it sounds like you're still using Loadiine. You could switch to using proper CFW for a better and more reliable experience.


There is far less lube involved now. Once proper CFW is installed, the console just boots up and you can do everything as normal. Games are installed to the 8/32gb internal system storage or an external HDD and run as normal, just as if you'd bought them from the eShop - as opposed to the Loadiine method of connecting to a web server and running each game via a Mii Maker exploit which, I don't know about you, but I found quite painstaking and incredibly unreliable. Now everything just works.


Yes, you can, and that is exactly why I modded mine. You will be able to play GameCube games in vWii mode using a loader called Nintendont that unlocks the GameCube functionality. You won't be able to play them from disc - it will have to be ISOs from an external hard drive - but once it's setup you will be able to play them just by clicking on them (so if you've ever used a softmodded Wii, it's exactly like that - you'll just have them listed along with all your Wii games). You'll be able to use a GameCube controller if you have one of the USB adaptors for them they made for Smash Bros on the Wii U but a bunch of others are also included, including the Wii U Pro controller and Dual Shock 3.

If like me I wanted ULTRA convenience so I wanted Haxchi to boot on load this involves BUYING a game for the e-store and the loading Coldboot Haxchi. The reason this is risky is if you move or tamper with the bought game it will brick your console.

It is handy if you can block sites on your router as it will be running on a CFW you don't want this updating if you can run your own DNS server that would be better however people are hosting free DNS forwarding servers for now and they are not hard to find. This allows you to play online "WiiU_USB_Helper" software is every game under the sun from the e-shop please make sure you own them before downloading. Make sure you have a self powered or Y USB cable for your external HDD as it does need that extra power and works fast. Get a fast SD CARD at 32/64gb min as some games are 14gb and need to used the SD card to put them on the HDD YOU CAN'T DO THIS DIRECT! YET!

As for VWii Just crack and keep a old wii it is Very stable and works better for now as some homebrew does not work on the VWii

I just got a "payment cancelled" email from Paypal for this purchase , so i am assuming it is because they sold more than the stock they actually had?
Anyone received theirs yet or had a cancellation email?

just incase anyone want to know about this company, there pretty bad. got mines yesterday in a brown box, quite scored on teh console but the charging wire for gamepad the wire was showing and obviously quite dangerous. take ages to reply to emails so going to have to paypal clam on them :-(