Topic: Rumble doesn't work anymore on gamepad

Hello everybody.

I haven't been using my Wii U's gamepad for quite a long time (I only played SSB with the GCN controller for months) and today, when I happened to use it again, it seemed to have stopped rumbling. I tried a couple games and it gives no sign of life. My Wii U is less than a year old, so I really have no idea what could have happened. I keep it in the same drawer as the PS3 controller and that one seems to have weakened its rumble as well (but I'm not 100% sure of that). Rumble is not necessary to enjoy games, but I still would like to solve this issue, or at least understand why that happened. Thank you in advance!

@Pkmns: Go on home menu, controller settings and gamepad settings to make sure it's still set to on.

Moreover, when you turn rumble on in the settings, the gamepad should rumble a little bit

EDIT: I tested it and that's not true. Turning rumble on has no test rumble for the GamePad.

gamepad has rumble? lol i think i turned it off the second i saw the setting when i first booted it up... i'm used to turning rumble off for smash so i've learned to just do it i guess

It's probably just turned off. Go to controller settings and turn it on.

I'm gonna check as soon as I get back home. If you guys are right, I'm officially an idiot lol

Mine isn't working anymore either and mine is most definitely turned on.

Any suggestions? And no I'm not sending my console in for repairs for something so minor since I have 125 Wii Shop games and 278 Wii U eShop games on my console that could potentially be lost if they accidentally sent me another system.

I hereby declare, in the presence of @nintendofwbaby, @gaming_24_7, @martinskrtel37 and all of the members of Nintendolife, that I officially am an utter, undeniable idiot.

(Thank you for your help, guys!)

@Neko_Rukiafan, I'm pretty sure you can buy another gamepad online

@Pkmns: We are all glad

You can send only the GamePad in for repair. You still could play Wii games and maybe you have a friend you can borrow you a GamePad for the waiting time.

Okay thanks for the tip @gaming_24_7 and @Pkmns.