I think there are no seals I thought I saw a unboxing on you tube and the guy went for his box cutter and then noticedthere was no seal I would not be worried as long as the system was wraped in the plasic you should be good

That's the thing though the bags were opened. I thought they were suppose to be tightly sealed to prevent dust and scratches? I haven't turned it on yet, but I hope they weren't throwing it around. I expected it to be factory sealed.

Should I be concerned? The box didn't have it's seal on each end. The controller didn't have the green tape to seal it in the white bag, and the console itself didn't have any green tape on it. The reason I'm concerned is because I watched unboxing videos with all the seals, and I recall my wii having these same seals. I picked mine up at Gamestop. I asked another customer if his had seals on the box, and there wasn't for his either. I didn't see if his was sealed inside.

The only thing that had green tape was the Wii sensor bar. It's covered by Nintendo for a year. I think I'm going to stop buying consoles from Gamestop. I don't like their policies of opening sealed copies of games, and sealing it to me as a new copy. Not cool at all. Especially, if I'm buying someone a game as a gift.

None of them are sealed, the box is really really secure, and the gamepad doesnt come with tape

The white bag the game pad was in was opened, and so was the bag the console was in.

Another thing I found odd was that there was no Club Nintendo points. Also, the HDMI cable is silver plated but perhaps that's just nit picking. I hope this console has nothing wrong with it. I'm goiing to test it out after lunch. Oh, and one other thing when I hit the power button on the game pad it turned on. I found that odd because normally you would have to charge these devices because the batteries are fully depleted.

Then it has previously been opened. You're too late to take it back though if you've left the store already.

If there's something wrong with it I can take it back. The guy said he had two others in the back.

Was there plastic sticky stuff on it? Like clear plastic tape that you had to peel away from the console?

No, there was no tape or anything sticky on it.

I know that feel, I bought a 32GB class 10.
...And another for my 3DS.

Did some kafoodeling with my external hard drives and cleared out the 500GB for my wii u though.
Was using it for torrenting, but using a smaller drive for that now.

That site still functions for you? Seems like they're taking down all the download links.

You do know that you can save games on the internal flash drive storage. As for external options a hard drive will work. As for an external flash drive it may well work but its not been confirmed to my knowledge.

I'm aware of that but seeing as my 8GB will be reduced to 4.2 GB due to the Wii U operating system and the account data, etc. I guess I jumped the gun because I had just went out and brought a 32 GB class 10 SD that I was intending to use to make up for the lack of space in the internal drive. It's kind of a set back now because I have to go out and buy an external just to be able to save my game data. Makes no sense as to why they would do this. My only conclusion would be to prevent hacked gamesaves.

What site?

I don't remember referencing a website in my post.

Torrentz

That's a bummer that you need an external to do gamesaves. Would I be able to use a flashdrive to store saves?

If only they gave us the option to upgrade ram ourselves like you can do with a PC.

Has anyone figured out how to set the videos in HD?

So you're just inserting the Wii disc and the SD card you kept from your Wii, and expecting it to work? I honestly don't know if it's going to work or not, I was under the impression you had to do the data migration from the Wii to the Wii U.

http://www.ign.com/a...-save-transfers

That's only if you want to keep your old account that's stored on the Wiis internal memory. By any chance do you know how to set the HD option on youtube from the Wii U?

You performed the proper migration from your Wii to your Wii U ? If so, I don't know - ask Nintendo.

I no longer have a Wii. I wonder if I could use a gamesave hack. I don't want to have to unlock all the characters again.

Question for you. I tried to play a Wii game on the Wii U, and it didn't read my save data for that game. When I popped it in the pc I saw the files were there. Also, I had purchased two games Mario 64 and Super Mario. I was able to see them from the SD section of the Wii menu, but I couldn't load them to play. What can I do to get this to work?

"Even played AC3 in 3d on the tv"

The game has 3D support?

3 hours, 4 gaming sessions. No freezing.

I can't wait til tomorrow!!!

Nintendo has Mario.
Nintendo win's!
Plus, I am not a fanboy, I just think that each consoles has its positives and negatives against and I think that one of Nintendo's positives is their exclusives!

Cop out much? I agree that each console has it's gems but saying Mario is better then what Sony has to offer is flat out fanboyish.

nah, do you think nintendo doest know what a bottleneck is? a company that has been building consoles for 29 years? i really think that they know something that we dont, or we dont know about theyr bussiness strategy so, start to claim nintendo's death its pointless seriously, i believe they know what they are doing

you need to calm down, take a breath and enjoy the console =O, if then you have the need to buy the next xbox or ps go on

PD: i remember an article from shinen the dev from nano-assault saying something about that the wii u avoid the typical bottlenecks, i dont know how but they said it

How do you expect for me to relax when we have Iwata apologizing on behalf of Nintendo's obvious F up? I don't take to kindly into being advertised something that's 3X more powerful then the competitors consoles when it's clearly not. I paid 300 plus tax and 60 plus tax only to wait til the console gets patched for the game to function properly? You call this acceptable?

Newer boxes have shinier functions to use.
It's easily on par with last gen.

Clearly they spent most of their money on creating the gamepad. When their main focus should have been the console. Motion controls was innovative for its time, but touch screen functions. Apple had that covered years ago so much for innovation o_____O Whatever happend to the head piece that would allow us to control the games with our mind?

Nintendo has The Legend Of Zelda, Super Smash Bros, Super Mario, Metroid, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, F-Zero, Pikmin and more......
Sony only has God Of War, Rachet and Clank and Infamous and Uncharted 2( I think that Uncharted 3 is wayyyyyyyyy over rated).

I think you're forgetting a couple others. Heavy Rain, The Last of us, Demon Souls, Killzone, Resistance, Metal Gear Solid 4, InFamous 2, Little Big Planet 1. 2. Vita, Wipeout HD, White Knight Chronicles, The Last Guardian, Tearaway, Motorstorm, Modnation Racers, Journey, Gran Turismo 5 and God of War Ascension just to name a few. I wasn't saying Nintendo didn't have great exclusives. I was saying Microsoft didn't. Well beside the Fable series and the Witcher 2.

All of the games that you said(and I mean all of them) have nintendo games that destroys them!!!

Typical fanboy response. Show me sale figures and game of the year rewards and we'll settle this short lived debate.

So?
It's more modern, thus ac3 would run on it just as easily as the 360.
Their spending habits weren't what I quoted you about.

That's only after the fact that the game had to suffer compromises such as graphical cut backs lighting and particle effects.

but slower clock speed does not mean current gen lol, actually the clock speeds are worse thanc urrent gen, but the gpu is more modern it has features and its capable to do some things that 360/ps3 cannot, thats obvious too, while at the same time other hardware pìeces will help to mitigate the cpu speed

The inevitable Bottleneck begs to differ.

Huh?

AC3 on the Wii U's lightning is fine you can't really notice the particle effects.

The example is pixelated.

"According to Assassin’s Creed 3 game designer Steven Masters, the Wii U version will be missing some technical features that are available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Because the developer didn’t have enough time to properly port Assassin’s Creed 3 Wii U to Nintendo’s new console, the game won’t include some of the lighting and particle effects present in other versions."

Development time excuses aside. I call BS because they took something out that was already in the Xbox and PS3 versions of the game to begin with it doesn't take that long to encode those minor effects. They could have had it done in a day at best.