Random: Play Your Wii U Anytime, Anywhere With This Fan-Made Playable Coat

The Switch killer!

Someone’s wet dream

I mean I am still bitter about VC but... If I am gonna put this much effort into it, I'll just pick up another Switch and hack it.

hmm, So Netflix will work.... not bad.

@uximal Only if you have pocket wifi or something.

Because why not? I wonder when he's going to have a portable ps4. The jacket would make one feel like a shoplifter tho. The projectotr on the hood seems cool as you could point the picture wherever you want.

Wearing a coat in summer, need to have a 2,5kg brick on you, canˋt play all games. And for what? To play VC games on the go?
I donˋt think this will be worth it! 🤔

It's too little too late to be fair.

I love his channel. Good stuff
This does seem like a lot of trouble. If you want portable virtual console. I’d recommend a psp.

This man is the kind of mind we need designing labo sets.

@NewAdvent Yeah, but how are you going to play Nintendo Land, Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Tokyo Mirage Sessions: #FE, Star Fox Zero (if those convoluted controls work for you), Sonic Lost World, etc. on the go, not to mention the entire Wii and WiiWare libraries in addition to the aforementioned Virtual Console library?

Although, in the case of the Wii's motion controls, I'd imagine it would be pretty awkward to try and keep your head straight while at the same time trying to aim the IR sensor with your hand. FPS games like Goldeneye Wii and the Conduit duology are probably not going to work very well among some other pointer-heavy games.

Is that hacked machine with pirated Wii U games inside ?

Haha, it's an actual coat! Ridiculous but pretty cool to see fan-made gadgets like this. Reminds me of the weird inventions from Wallace & Gromit

Ben Heck who....? This is rediciously awesome!!

This is the kind of dumb silly pointless projects we need!

No joke or sarcasm, I love it!
Kudos to you Vince, very well done job!

Whilst nowhere near as extensive a VC, there’s always the New 3DS. Plus some 3D Mega Drive games.

Cool piece of kit but impractical.

facepalm

At least it'd be warm in Winter. VERY warm.

Cya
Raziel-chan

I'm waiting for someone to transplant the guts of. Swiitch into a wiiU gamepad.

@kepsux I really like your idea. I wish they allowed you to use the WiiU game pad in conjunction with the Switch. It would be great to use for games like Zelda.

Awesome... I've had ideas like that.

@Anti-Matter No, it's just... A Wii U.

@Blizzia
Oooh... i see.
Original Wii U + Power Bank = Wii U & Wii on the go.
Sorry for my last comment.
I didn't pay attention carefully.
Btw, i wonder what is the name of Power Bank for Wii U ?

This is what happens when someone has too much spare time on their hands, lol.

Well done though!

As someone who sold my Wii U and bought a Switch day one and soon after sold the Switch and reboiggt a Wii and haven't regretted it, this is a great idea. Just wish he'd market it. Maybe add windbreaker and best versions for warm weather. Maybe an Indiegogo idea or something.

I already did that about a year ago, just without the coat (which feels unnecessary anyway, why would you want to take a coat with you during summer?).
Simply put the Wii U and a powerbank (one of those with an AC connector) into your backpack and you can play on the Wii U gamepad anywhere you want.

Well that is a lot better than the actual Wii U tablet at least. That thing sucked. Awkward to hold and play games on, terrible battery life, requirement for a wall charger, and it wouldn't work in a different room.

@shani ...or your could just buy a Switch and not have to worry about any of that. Plus, I don't think you would want to be walking around with a console that utilizes a disc drive.

@NewAdvent Ikr? And Super metroid, and Wave race, and Sonic and Knuckles and F Zero. If only a certain console which rhymes with "itch" had a sort of way to play games that were not ports or nes games...

Seems pretty cool. I wonder how it works

@JayJ I already got a Switch since June (and I'm mainly playing on it since then) but it can't replace the Wii U as it's lacking a lot of crucial features (second screen, browser, apps, customizable homescreen, local save/game data backups etc).

Also, the Wii U is not the Xbox 360.
You can move/shake it around with a disc inside without the disc being damaged.
The same applies to the Wii.
Microsoft just don't know how to do it properly (talking from experience, my GTA V disc got damaged by just laying the Xbox 360 down).

@shani Yeah Nintendo definitely makes a better console than Microsoft, that is for sure. That said the Wii's disc drive is hardly perfect as I have already had the disc drive break on a Wii a while back, it is known to be the weakest link for the console.

Don't think I would ever call the tablet screen a crucial feature though. I always thought of it as a gimmick and I honestly always preferred trying to forget that it even exists until I was required to use it. A web browser and apps are what I have an iPad and iPhone for and they do that sort of thing far better than any console I have ever owned. I would like to have home screen customization though.

Clever!

@JayJ Bummer, luckily that never happened to me on my Wii back then.

Well I truly miss games like Affordable Space Adventures that utilized it in ingenious ways, or even just as a map and inventory for open world games. Opening the pause menu in XC2 breaks the immersion completely, for example.

I also really miss quickly googling something or watching it on youtube (e.g. when I got stuck somewhere or when I want to look up the stats of something in Splatoon) on the Gamepad while pausing the game. Or just watching something on Netflix/the browser when I take a break from gaming (e.g. to eat).
Your smartphone/tablet is just an additional device you have to operate simultaneously to the Switch (and a human being only has two hands), which is an unnecessary hindrance - especially considering the fact that you are already playing on a tablet.
I often look up things and it's really annoying to do that on a different device than the one I'm playing on.

So when I want to google something during a game, I have to put the gamepad away, go pick up my phone or laptop or switch the AVR to my PC (in other words: I have to leave the game for a while).
All of those options are significantly less comfortable and more time-consuming (imagine having to it constantly every few minutes/seconds!) than just looking it up on the Switch directly with the controller that's already in my hands.

Long story, short: for me, the Wii U's multi-screen gaming (together with AMD Eyefinity/nvidia Surroundview, which utilizes 3 or more screens) is the best gaming innovation there ever was and I can't understand how they would completely drop this, just because they failed to explain it properly in the Wii U marketing campaigns.
It's also baffling because the docked Switch in fact has two screens but only uses one. They could've at least made the dual-screen setup optional instead of hiding the Switch in that unnecessarily chunky dock.

The lesson learned is: Nintendo simply don't care about the UX or maybe they still don't even know what that is. Otherwise they would - at the very least - let us arrange the Switch menu freely as we could on the Wii U.
Instead, when I want to rearrange my Switch games so that the most important 12 stay on the home screen, I have to go through ALL of them, launch them and then launch the next and so on. This would've been acceptable 15 years ago, but not in 2018.

Although cool in theory, I can't imagine the coat being very comfortable to wear with all that gear in it. The funny part is when he suggests trying it with the PS4 Slim at the end of the video, because not only is it bigger than the Wii U, it's heavier too.

Yes, but why not use your 3DS instead?

VC? Got it.

Wii U games? Numerous titles have been ported to the handheld.

The 'New' family even has a 2nd stick, Z buttons, and improved internals. The 2DS XL even looks like an iPhone attached to a Wii U GamePad, which may or may not authenticate your pseudo-Wii U gaming experience.

(Wait, that's right. I'm supposed to be busy having left the website. Resuming...)

A handheld/home console hybrid may be unique, but nothing is more unique than a handheld/home console/sweatshirt hybrid.

The Switch had better watch out!!

@kepsux I was just about to say the same thing! For me, the Wii U gamepad is still my favourite controller ever! Awesome shout, man.

@The_Pixel_King Yea, it might feel a bit on the plasticy side, but the ergonomics of the controller were really nice.

I love the Wii U. Watching this video just makes me want to play it.

Lol that's gonna be ol' Sligs 😁

Still a failed system no matter how you dress it up!

Ah the Wii U pro controller, the greatest controller Nintendo has ever made. Off set analogs of the Switch Pro be damned!!

That coat must be heavy