[herbst]

I bought a Wii U (my only console) just a few months ago. It's still amazing, you can download all available games for free directly from Nintendo.

The controller is meh, however most games also let you play with a pro controller. The screen on the Wii U brick is barely used.

And if you have a party or so just let them bring their Wii controllers, all the multiplayer games support them.

If you are not a classic gamer but are looking for some gaming fun it might still is the perfect console for you

[RajT88]

> you can download all available games for free directly from Nintendo

Eh? Like Wii Shop games which are WiiU only are all free?

If that's the case, I might dig mine out of the closet.

[philistine]

No you can’t. This comment is wrong. The Wii U is actually closing its shop and you can’t add funds to an account anymore.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

[DCKing]

The parent comment isn't wrong, but it's referring to piracy. The Wii U has been blown wide open such that tools exist that allow you to pirate games by downloading them directly from Nintendo's servers, essentially giving you free eShop downloads. Every game that's available for the Wii U digitally, is available for a pirated download. Straight from Nintendo.

[imran0]

>Every game that's available for the Wii U digitally, is available for a pirated download. Straight from Nintendo.

Oh wow, how did Nintendo manage to be this stupid?

[ace2358]

To be fair this has happened to other consoles like the ps vita. It’s possible to download the games from the online stores. The games can’t run because they’re signed, so it’s a simple http request to start the download.

Except the cryptography and security has been bypassed. So the consoles have a homebrew app that lets you download and install to console and pirate the game. All done on the console.

[brnt]

Whoops, I should refresh pages more often!