*** Official Nintendo Wii U thread ***
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Hello, I have found today basically no. You have to buy a hdmi extractor for £50-£120 or alternatively use a headphone to phono cable from the top of the gamepad to get sound. There is zero other options. So annoying because the wii and gamecube and 3ds just worked but this is a tricky thing to figure out. Families are not in for a good xmas.
Marks out of 10 for the console and ZombieU if you have it
I bought the ZombiU pack and it's great value. I'm really glad I forked out that extra £35 over a Basic with Mario, as you get the black console (which goes better with my media set-up), the sensor bar, a Controller Pro, the console stand and a GamePad stand which doubles as a charger; all that for £35 is easily worth it considering the controller alone costs that much to buy.
I've put a few hours into ZombiU now and I really don't understand how this game got mediocre reviews as personally I think it's a very good survival horror game. I think they did a great job showing off London in a post-apocalyptic environment. Graphically the game is very good and I was immediately impressed with the lighting which is important to a game like this.
The controls are good, but clunky, however I found it to be a good thing. Some reviewers did comment on the controls being clunky and made it out to be a negative but really I don't find doing a power-slide under a fence then immediately getting up and doing a backflip over a toppled over Coca Cola machine whilst holding a cricket bat to be very realistic. Instead, your guy (or girl!) has to crawl under the fence, or pulls themself over the downed Coca Cola machine which in my opinion is how it should be.
I'm finding the GamePad integration to be really well done. At first I though it might just be a gimmick to show off how the GamePad can work for Wii U games but, whilst it does do that, it also fits the game very well and helps with the atmosphere. As an example, when you loot a dumpster your GamePad will show the dumpsters items and also your inventory whilst the game moved into a third person view and you can see a little of the area around you. So you end up having to look at the GamePad for the items, then look at the screen to make sure a Zombie isn't going to chew your nuts off, then back to the inventory. It's how it should be, as realistically you can't keep your eyes on everything.
The only downside so far I've found is when using a melee weapon (like a cricket bat) it's really hard to judge the distance between you and a the Zombies head you're trying to cave in - leading to some missed swings.
The atmosphere of the game is great. I'm constantly taking things slowly as I don't know what's around the next corner, or opening a door into a dark room with my cricket bat at the ready and poking my head around the corner to see if there's anything there. Maybe it's low scores were because it's a love / hate kind of game, not everyone likes the survival horror genre. If you're into zombies and survival horrors it's a really good game, don't get put off by the mediocre reviews.
I'm hoping my gaming tonight gives me more joy now I'll have sound and hopefully once hdmi goes in no more overscan and corrupted picture problems. I really want to love the console but I pretty much told everyone at work not to buy it today.
That really sucks, my Samsung TV has loads of outputs but not the older ones so I can't jig together like how I did with PS3 as I have no way to use my Logitech PC speakers with my TV directly.
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is your monitor connected to a PC?. if so, could you not run the audio into your sound card and then out to wherever it needs to go. think the Dell's have audio passthrough
Sadly I have a usb Dac from Arcam as it's a true hifi setup in every sense. It's a good idea but a shame it doesn't fit my setup. Based on how many people have issues I think a fix from nintendo will only be days away anyway so I will use a headphone cable until this happens. There will be lots of people other than me that want it fixed like the guy above with his pc speakers, nintendo has catered only for the well informed home cinema fan who is right upto date, not for average joe with a hifi like me or someone with standalone speakers.
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Unbelievably racked off with this poxy thing trying to get onto my Virgin media superhub. I'm trying to set the connection manually and I've set a manual IP on the router of 192.168.0.25. When I try to put it in the Wii U it defaults to 192.168.000.025 and then says it's invalid!
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Regarding overscan the Wii U launch just proves how many people have had their TV's set up wrong and possibly for years, overscan isn't a new thing with the Wii U, just most game developers on other systems don't draw right to the edge of the screen with things like HUDs etc, Wii U developers have been drawing right to the edge of the screen.
People who have their TV set up incorrectly have been losing about 5% of their picture for as long as they have had the TV set up wrong.
People who have their TV set up incorrectly have been losing about 5% of their picture for as long as they have had the TV set up wrong.
I had the same issue, its a real pain. Got it working in the end but now i cant update the console. Kept on getting a message to try again later, which i have for the past 2 hours. Had enough now, so im off to the pub.
I think that's a bit optimistic!
There's some really good stuff going on here, but they've got to sort out the OS issues. I've downloaded the FIFA13 demo which is around 1.3gb... it's now taken well over 10 minutes to install during which time I can't use the system at all. This makes the PS3's installs look super quick.
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ah man, i really want one now but funds wont allow 
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Why wouldn't it? HDMI chipsets are backwards compatible. Also it supports lossless sound, so what's the issue?
There's obviously no issue, although there was some concerns over surround sound a while back.
I think that's a bit optimistic!
There's some really good stuff going on here, but they've got to sort out the OS issues. I've downloaded the FIFA13 demo which is around 1.3gb... it's now taken well over 10 minutes to install during which time I can't use the system at all. This makes the PS3's installs look super quick.
Best part is how it goes from 2 mins to less than 1 minute but seems to takes 10 mins to get to each I think they missed a zero some where hmm lol.