Guys, I am both happy and dumbfounded to report to you guys that the Wii U never had any surround sound problems to begin with. I recently emailed Nintendo about this issue and they thankfully replied back to me and told me that the Wii U does not support Dolby, like the Wii and Gamecube previously did.

The Wii U now supports a different type of surround sound called LPCM. It is actually much more clearer sounding than Dolby because it is uncompressed sound (Dolby is easier and cheaper, yet compressed).

The only way to get LPCM surround sound is to get a Home Theater system or receiver that supports LPCM. I found a couple nice ones from Sony for $150 and $210 on Amazon. The models are: STR-DH520 and HT-SS380. You'll need to buy one more HDMI cable to run from Wii U to system, and system to TV.

Why they all of a sudden chose to drop Dolby now is probably because of Nintendo not wanting to pay licensing fees to Dolby.

Anywayyy... I'm dumbfounded because I bought the wrong sound system for Wii U and now I'm gonna have to return it and get this one.

Lord bless you all Wii U community!

Hello, welcome to the forums.

Now what kind of surround sound troubles are you having? We have people who are more than capable of assisting.

Sorry for replying so late... but I had literally just found out that Wii U only supports a different type of surround sound..."generic" surround sound if you will. It does not support any type of Dolby like the Gamecube and Wii did.

So I searched the web for the surround sound that the Wii U offers and found one from Sony for $210. The surround type that Wii U supports is called LPCM...as I just heard about it this year.

Yes guys! I am sooo glad I found people who are experiencing the same issues because I thought it was something I did wrong. In the system settings, I can get 5 chimes when I sample stereo, but just as you guys are saying, 2 chimes are missing when I sample Surround.

I kept the same setup I have for the Wii U and hooked up my PS3 and Surround sound was alive and well with the PS3. (I have one HDMI cable from game system to Surround receiver's HDMI Input, and another HDMI cable from Surround receiver's Output to my HDTV's Input.)

This obviously means there is some sort of error in the Wii U. Please guys, let's see if we can get this message out to NIntendo so this can be fixed immediately!

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