Wii U - What it is, and what it isn't
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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forair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 Mouse
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are designed to provide best-in-class features and performance for gaming
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click now to learn more hey guys welcome to my Wii U overview if you're not
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interested in what's in the box and you're not really that interested in FAQ
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there'll be a time stamp in below in the description just to jump you towards
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more thoughts and conclusions about Wii U if you are interested in the other
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stuff stay tuned we'll jump into that right away one extremely common misconception is that this is the Wii U
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this is a Wii U gam pad and is one of the big very unique things about the Wii
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U but it is not the Wii U another thing is that people think this is the Wii U
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this is the Wii Wii U isn't just like a big Wii or small Wii or anything it is
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actually not a Wii it is a Wii U this is
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a Wii U it is different it looks quite
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similar but it is not the same and while it's not the Wii a lot of accessories
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and cables will actually work from a Wii to a Wii U so the Wii U sensor bar is
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the same as the Wii sensor bar so they're interchangeable the component
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cable from your Wii will work on your Wii U although I do recommend using the
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HDMI cable in the Box many Wii games as long as you have the disc will work on
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your Wii U and Wii controllers will work on the Wii U as well you can technically
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play up to six players in different games but finding games that support that is going to be a little bit of a
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pain my favorite over four player game that I've played so far is Super Mario
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Bros U or might have got that name slightly wrong but whatever and what it
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is is four people will be on screen playing and then you can have a fifth
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player in a sort of they call it boost mode but it's like a a god mode which
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interacts with the environment in different ways so you can put blocks down if someone like if it's it's four
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players so it actually increases difficulty because you bump into each other so much so if someone jumps and
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someone jumps on their head and it throws them down you can kind of catch them with a block and there's a few
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other ways you can interact with the environment as well which is actually a pretty cool way of doing it so if you
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say you have a bunch of kids and there's a dad he can kind of play with the Wii U
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gam pad and interact with them while they're playing but he doesn't have to
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actually jump in and take over one of their spots which is actually kind of cool I like that a lot uh it also
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supports many games will also support off TV play so say your mom is watching
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her favorite TV show you can still play your Wii U wherever the heck you want
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because you can just play it on the game pad as long as you're within vicinity
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which is again very cool there was some foresight into that and there's some
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good ideas in the Wii U there's also some terrible ones another good idea is
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that you can actually expand the storage via USB so external flash drive or hard
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drive will work fine you can transfer things like downloaded games save data
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and Miis and more from your old Wii to your new Wii U although this is a
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one-way Street it can't be transferred back just don't forget that now for some
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things it can't really do it will not upscale Wii games they will be showed in
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standard definition uh you cannot use your gam pad for Wii games you have to
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use Wii Moes which is probably fine because if you have Wii games you probably had a Wii and you probably have
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wies but still you cannot watch like Netflix or do anything like that on your
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gam pad while you're playing games um because it's not separated like that it
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has to be used for one thing although if the TV is being used for something else
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like I said before you can still play games or watch Netflix on it somewhere
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else in the house many games are going to be 720p upscale to 1080p although
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there will definitely be some games at 1080p it's not always at 1080p but we've
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seen that with NextGen Hardware from other brands as well so this isn't too
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surprising now as PC enthusiasts you guys not buying this for it's crazy
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blazing fast Hardware that's not what's
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happening here this thing's Hardware is not specifically impressive at
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all even a little bit so why would you
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possibly be interested in this and why am I interested in this because I have a fairly high powerered computer myself
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I'm interested in this because of what it can do not what it is I'm not
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interested in the hardware power of a Wii U at all I'm interested in it
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because it can play Nintendo games it can play stuff like Zelda win HD Pikmin
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3 Wonderful 101 Super Mario 3D World and in the future it'll be able to play
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stuff like Mario Kart 8 Hyrule Warriors if you haven't heard of Hyrule Warriors
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look it up it looks really interesting Super Smash Bros and like where the hell
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is Mario Party 10 there's no news about it at all but hopefully that in the
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future um what I'm not interested for Wii U is stuff like Watchdogs and Call
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of Duty and Assassin's Creed and much heavier stuff because I'm just going to
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go play that on my computer especially big multiplayer games the Wii U online
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support is very weak so if I'm going to play something online with all my
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friends I see myself doing that on a computer not a console um the console
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Wii U console I expect to play when kind of more friends come over and don't feel
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like hauling their PCS that time so it's
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it's an interesting position there is stuff to be interested about and there's
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a lot more exclusives than other consoles like Xbox One or PlayStation 4
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there's a bunch of other stuff that's kind of really confusing as well in
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terms of what the heck is going on Nintendo's an interesting company
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because they're locked within their own ecosystem but like why aren't they more
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locked within their own ecosystem in my mind other people are like no open up
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Nintendo's never going to open up they're never going to release a game on mobile they've said that more than once
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uh what I don't understand is like why doesn't the 3DS or 2DS work with your
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Wii U like why can't I use one of those as a game pad that's what they essentially are anyways they're just
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much smaller why isn't that a thing why can't I play Pokemon X and Y on my Wii U
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why isn't there a Mainline Pokemon game like Pokemon X and Y on my Wii U that
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doesn't make a ton of sense what will hopefully make sense is
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a price point at some point in time we saw a surge in popularity with 3ds and
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2ds when the price took a drop now the Wii U has fairly recently had a price
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drop down to $300 you can get a $300 one with Super Mario rosu and Luigi U that
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price is subjective to 10 billion things that's usually why we don't say prices
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in videos but still but I see it being a lot more attractive at say like a $ 200
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or $250 range with those games in it as
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well I hope these kind of things happen because I do want Nintendo to exceed I'm
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sorry succeed I grew up on Nintendo and I do still really enjoy these games I
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wish there on other platforms but they never will be so there's a lot to think
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about Nintendo's stock keeps kind of going like this lately I know a few days
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ago it tanked really hard but then I think last night it skyrocketed again up
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like two bucks or something which is actually a huge movement the whole
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industry doesn't really seem to be decided on the whole Nintendo thing so
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what is your thoughts what do you think about Nintendo post on the Forum post in
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the comments below either one also what do you think about these kind of format
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videos I recently did an Oculus video that was somewhat like this one and now
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there's this one what do you guys think again post on the Forum Post in the
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