Topic: Nearly one year in, how is your Gamepad holding up?

You don't have the wonderful 101 yet.

Other than the Flamin' Hot Cheetos stains, the dried pizza grease, and the cratched screen it is doing pretty good.

Mine has had very little use, and when it is used, the battery is always low. I must have gotten a bad battery.

You must not have that many games, correct? I recommend Monster Hunter, Tekken Tag 2, Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3, ZombiU, New Super Mario Bros. U, I heard Splintercell was good... There's enough games to last you months, and I know you just got it not to long ago. I'd say COD is worth $25-30 if you can find it for that, missing DLC aside. Then there's Disney Infinity, too.

I use the internet browser on Wii U constantly, as well. Netflix, anything? I think you're neglecting your Wii U

Everything still works fine, I guess. I'm opting to use my Pro controller a lot more as I'm worried about wear down, and I don't fancy splashing out £100+ for a new controller when it does...

I have 8 games. None of them held my attention. It's not the fault of the games, though, nothing's been holding my attention lately except the occasional RPG...

I used a screen protector on day one, the stylus has never touched the screen at all, so my screen is fine, as for everything else, swell!

I see. I was about to say that it might have something to do with your preferences or something. I get the same way sometimes. Some days I'll be on the internet, and some days I'll play games to no end it seems.

By "lately" I kinda meant the last 6 months...

I have the white basic model..

Happy to say the gamepad is holding up just fine, also the pro controller that along with the way these well-built controllers go, only seems to improve after some heavy usage and loose their initial stale feel.

If you're not playing it, why haven't you sold it? It's always funny how often people pull the collecting dust card when they know full well they can literally walk to the nearest retailer and rectify that issue.

Mines fine no scratches or anything even so my child jump on it more than once and he also let it fall on the ground sometimes

It's holding up very well and i use it a lot every day. i applied a screen protector on day #2 to avoid damaging the screen with scratches.

Yeah it's a tops controller (besides all the SEGA system controllers) for the MABster... Best feature is to press the home button, go on the forums, post a quick troll then jump straight back to my game as people whinge and moan while they sit at their lame computers

My Wii U is in perfect shape... because it almost never gets used. Biggest problem: the wireless doesn't work (despite hours of troubleshooting and every other device we own connecting fine) so I can't stream video or download content from the eShop. Our Wii gets used non-stop because (a) we've already got a huge shelf of interesting but unplayed games, and (b) online features work correctly so it's still our Netflix box as well. Why bother using Wii U when it's almost always going to be in Wii mode anyway?

Why not sell the Wii U if I'm not using it? Because I will want the console for the future and am not convinced we'll find a better price. There aren't many Wii U games that appeal to me right now... but they are coming. It's also the official backup for our old and much-loved Wii, which I'm worried might not last much longer. I don't dislike the Wii U (wireless snafus aside) and when the Xenoblade sequel comes out I'll be first in line. I just don't have any good reason to use the console right now.

Yeah good call, we all know some sweet titles coming up in the near future. Also, not having the wireless work would make me use it less as well.
Btw how do you dl systemupdates if there is no internet?

It's in near perfect shape as I haven't used it to play any games since I bought a Wii-U pro controller

Everything works fine, but ...
I don't know if it is just my imagination, but the A button feels like it doesn't click as well as the other buttons.
It's a bit... How do you say... Mushy? You probably know what I mean, I think it happens to all over-used buttons.

Oh, also, my Wii U is still having trouble connecting to the internet most of the time. Its very weird, because it often connects to it and works for about one hour, and then I suddenly get the error messages. I know wireless connections aren't stable, but my other consoles sit right next to the Wii U and have no problem other than decreased speeds.

I hear you to an extent. I bought a bunch of games on sale that were well reviewed/popular and I have at least a dozen that I've barely played. That said, I love Zen Pinball, both Marvel and Star Wars, Sonic, Tekkin, Madden, NFS and Rayman. Nintendoland, SMBU, Injustice are games that I pull out on occassion and still enjoy. The other games look fun, but I just haven't sat down and invested the time in them. Monster Hunter, Pikmin and W101- I've played once or twice and haven't picked them back up, but I will.