Just bought a WII U and have a question.

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So i picked up a wii u over the weekend, premium with zombieU, but my question is, is the big control pad with the screen supposed to rumble? or is mine broke lol, as it has never rumbled, seems odd it would not? but i went into the place i bought the console while picking up mario bro's the next day and asked the question, but was told it was not meant to rumble, but the girl said she had hardly used it. So im still unsure!
 
Its not rumbled in any game i have tried it on so far, Mario, zombie, and the wii u minigames, unless none of them have a rumble feature? any way to test it so i know its not broke?

I know theirs demo's you can download in the wii u store, any games i can get a demo of that any one knows has the rumble feature?
 
I am sure I have felt it rumble in Mario and in some of the nintendoland games, think it was Zelda, make sure rumble is enabled in the pad settings too :)
 
Mr Men said:
I am sure I have felt it rumble in Mario and in some of the nintendoland games, think it was Zelda, make sure rumble is enabled in the pad settings too :)
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Yea its enabled in the settings as i was looking last night, im not at home at the mo so cant try it again until i get home at 7, but think i will try a few demos off the store, and if its still not working then i will take it back!

Also has anyone noticed very slow download rates on the wii u? i have 76mb fibre, and the update took around 1 and a half hours to download, and even the game updates take a while to download before you can play them! im hoping wii store downloads will go at full speed!
 
It definitely rumbles on Mario and ZombiU. In fact on ZombiU, I'm fairly confident it rumbles quite a lot.

It's perhaps more subtle, with the pad being larger, though I don't know if the normal rumbling motors are any bigger with the pad being significantly larger.
 
Syph said:
It definitely rumbles on Mario and ZombiU. In fact on ZombiU, I'm fairly confident it rumbles quite a lot.

It's perhaps more subtle, with the pad being larger, though I don't know if the normal rumbling motors are any bigger with the pad being significantly larger.
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Well at the weekend i must have played a good 10 hours worth of mario, mini games, and also around 2 hours of zombieu, and at no point of playing did i feel any hint of even the slightest rumble in the pad so i can only guess that its broken! will i lose all my save files on the wii or do they get stored in the clouds to the user account i set up?

I did use the old motion controllers on the minigames on multiplayer and i did notice them rumbling however.
 
doggs said:
If anything needs replacing I would contact Nintendo directly rather that deal with the reseller.
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Well im hoping that if it is faulty then all i would do is go into the shop i bought it from and have them exchange it for another unit, its only a few days old so if they wont let me do that i will be very peed off!
 
If they let you swap just the game pad, then yeah that would be the fine. Just bear in mind if you swap your console at the shop you'll likely lose you Nintendo network ID and any purchases/saves associated with it.
 
doggs said:
If they let you swap just the game pad, then yeah that would be the fine. Just bear in mind if you swap your console at the shop you'll likely lose you Nintendo network ID and any purchases/saves associated with it.
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Really?! so if a console breaks down then you pretty much lose everything you had on it including purchased games? that seems like a real poor idea by nintendo!
 
Have you bought anything digitally then?

I imagine you can transfer saves etc to a sd card if swapping the whole unit. But really I imagine you just ain't noticed the rumble as its not really that great anyway.
 
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