Our Stateside cousins have been enjoying Nintendo's new console for a little while now, and here in Europe we can officially join in on Friday. We've had an absolute tonne of Wii U info up on the site over the past few weeks, so to help you navigate it, we thought we'd put it all here in one place.
Picking up a Wii U on Friday? Still thinking about it? Hopefully this launch guide can help you decide.
There are 2 Wii U Bundles available at launch in the UK:
The Basic Pack:
- 8GB storage
- White console and gamepad
- No bundled software
- Around £249
The Premium Pack:
- 32GB storage
- Black console and gamepad
- GamePad charging stand
- Console stand
- Nintendo Land included
- Around £299
For our money, the Premium bundle is really the only way to go - with 8GB of storage there's not even enough room to store one full game download, and Nintendo Land is worth the extra cash. You can expand Wii U's storage with an external USB hard drive - Nintendo recommends an AC-powered one for best results. Read how to set up USB storage on Wii here, and check Nintendo's advice on supported USB storage devices here.
Our Wii U hardware review is also live now. Want to know how the OS looks and works? Check it out:
We don't have Hulu here in the UK, but Wii U is launching here with Netflix and Lovefilm. iPlayer and 4oD have yet to be confirmed.
Here's the full list of UK Wii U launch games:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (Review)
- Mass Effect 3: Special Edition (Review)
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Review)
- Nintendo Land (Review)
- New Super Mario Bros. U (Review)
- Darksiders 2 (Review)
- Assassin's Creed 3 (Review)
- Rabbids Land (Review)
- ZombiU (Review)
- Batman: Arkham City Armoured Edition (Review)
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Review coming soon)
- FIFA 13 (Review coming soon)
- Funky Barn (Review coming soon)
- Skylanders Giants
- Transformers Prime
- Disney Epic Mickey 2. The Power Of Two
- Ben 10: Omniverse
- Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade
- Tank! Tank! Tank!
- Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper
- Just Dance 4
- Sports Connection
- Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013
- Game Party Champions
The best of the bunch? We're big fans of ZombiU here at IGN's UK office, and Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros U have both provided some riotous multiplayer fun.
For a big guide to Wii U's ports, see here. We've also got guides to Wii U's shooters, platformers, action games, and multiplayer games.
We have guides to everything from save data transfers to transferring saved data, parental controls, turning off the console's power-saving auto-off function, updates and much more on our Wii U Wiki. You can also find guides to the best launch games.
We've got a Wii U launch video podcast coming soon, so keep an eye on this page in the run-up to launch.
Keza MacDonald is in charge of IGN's games team in the UK. You can follow her on IGN and Twitter.
Source : ign[dot]com
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