YouTube App Goes Live on Wii U

The youtube app is really slow and has crashed my system twice. The browser is definitely the way to go at this point it works flawlessly. Hopefully they'll have a patch to fix the problems soon and also allowing us to watch on the game pad is a must.

I don't have a wii u so I can't say how well it works.

The YouTube app is awful. I can barely get videos to play, it has no second screen viewing option, and it froze my wii u once. The browser one though is way better. I hope they fix it soon, if not I may just delete it off my system and just use the browser one.

It's pretty terrible. Can't view favorites, can't view likes, can't watch on the gamepad, runs slowly, playlists are limited, can't view by account without subscriptions, can't browse for other videos while a video is playing, can't add to favorites, can't rate, can't nothin'. I complained about this on Miiverse and was accused of being an Xbox fanboy. Go figure.

Crashed on me the first time I used it right after install, but has worked fine since. The picture is nice on the Gamepad & tv (better than my blu-ray player running it), but the interface is confusing & completely lacking on the Gamepad. Try it out, but yeah, I agree going with the browser is the easier solution. At least until the interface is fixed.

The interface is the same as on the PS3 but it's slower and often won't load any videos at all. When scrolling through my subscriptions it kept saying "no videos" even though I'm pretty sure the Angry Video Game Nerd has a video or two up on his channel.

I'm sure it'll be fixed with a patch, but I'm kinda wondering how it got finalized at this point.

Google really needs to fix it, it's not enjoyable to use (most of the time videos in my subscriptions don't show up, glad it's not only happening to me).

The app is kind of sketchy but it shows a lot of promise. The web explorer on the other hand is very good, easily beating what the other consoles offer, I actually find myself using it more than I thought I would.

@Firebird360

Yea I find using Youtube from the Web Browser much faster and easier! The app was slow....

it is terrible. it is so unorganized. trust me just use the web browser.

The app is a half-baked port from the app PS3. (Note the d-pad indicator) But it does have potential, and I use it over the browser because it is HD.

Count me in for "its garbage". Claims all of my subscribed channels have "no videos". Clearly wasn't tested.

As mentioned above, I can't access my favorites, which defeats the purpose almost entirely. Browsing is a major pain, and there's essentially no gamepad support. Again, it defeats the purpose. I'll have to try loading the website through the browser, but I had assumed it wouldn't work. I hate to be negative, but some WiiU features are disappointing me.

Oh, if only there was another way of properly viewing the internet as intended....

The App is overaly horrible. Going to Youtube in the browser works infinitely better, and i don't have to close a game to do so.

Terrible app. Stick to the browser.

Judging by the comments they were in a hurry to launch the app.
Haven't they done any quality control on it?

Stick to watching it through the browser. The only thing good about the app on PS3 was that you could finally watch youtube on it since the browser for that is so poor. That is definitely not the case here.

I was actually quite sad to see it was the same design as the PS3 app when it booted up.

yeah its the same as the ps3 youtube app which isnt helping much either because i cant access my favourites or get to a certain video i want, but with the internet browser its much better and it looks exactly like it would on your computer

plus whenever you play a video it automatically goes and fill the gamepad as its seperate thing so you could play music and go to a different website as long as you dont close that video page

Seems to me like it's trash. Is it on the same level as the Wii Youtube app?

I don t mind the way it is set up but when i try to return to the wii u menu it takes up wards of 15 min to load. I unplugged my wii u the first time it happend, the second time i let it try to load and about 15 min later i got to the wii menu.

So Nintendo released this garbage app just as a way of advertising how good their console browser it? Works for me as I'm always on the internet and almost never on Youtube. Though I admittedly did contribute to Psy besting The Biebs.

@pntjr I can actually watch video on the Wii app (although the Wii app can lag), so the Wii app is actually better than the Wii U app. o_0

Youtube app is very bad! my videos don't appear for those im subscribe to. it froze my system once. it also made me active twice. highly recommend the web version, until its updated

I wounder if the UK will get it?

Its ok looks a lot like the PS3 version which is super bad. The PS3 one crashes on just about every video I tried. The WiiU at least played all the ones I tried so far.

It looks like the same as the Youtube Channel from Wii.