http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3070/p/431/c/267
Nintendo TVii icon removed for NA (removed with 5.4.0 in Europe already... TVii still going on in Japan). And... that's it. Exciting, I know
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http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3070/p/431/c/267
Nintendo TVii icon removed for NA (removed with 5.4.0 in Europe already... TVii still going on in Japan). And... that's it. Exciting, I know
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
TVii was shockingly bad. This is an upgrade for your Wii U no doubt.
The one used to turn your TV on and off and switch inputs? Why on earth would you want that?
The one used to turn your TV on and off and switch inputs? Why on earth would you want that?
No. Why would it? It's two separate features. It would be dumb to remove it...
The Elite
BOSS
The five people on GAF who used it are coming to disagree.
Why? It's totally unrelated to TVii and on top of that it functions well.
Would be an odd thing to do considering they're different features.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Those people don't exist. Not even 5.
Why would you want to remove the remote control ability from your Gamepad? I've never used TVii, but being able to turn the TV on/off, adjust volume, and switch video source right from the gamepad is awesome.
The Elite
BOSS
Honestly always thought it was related to TVii only.
Hilarious. My TV remote does the same thing.
Love my Wii U but some of this stuff just made no sense to me.
Cheesemeister
Member
Is it region-free yet?
Hidden One
Member
wrong thread
The Elite
BOSS
Wrong thread, smark.
The TV button is actually dope af and you're wrong
LiveFromKyoto
Member
That firmware update is called NX.
I used it far more than most (second screen for MLB, mostly) and I'm not going to disagree at all. Half-assed from Day 1.
It's a convenience feature. It saves you from having to use a device you aren't going to be using.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
That's one of the things that makes off-TV play work. You need to be able to toggle other content on the TV, or turn the TV on and off at will.
The missus is watching TV and you're playing on the gamepad, then she leaves the room, and you can throw the game up on the screen by switching inputs with the pad in your hand. Or you're playing a game on the TV and you want to take it into the bedroom, so you switch the TV off with the pad and walk away.
The thing is if you're using your WiiU, you're going to need the pad anyway so it's usually easier to turn the tv on and switch the channel with the pad than finding the remote.
You can switch midgame to offTv without touching anything but the pad, it's not anything new in 2015(I mean the wiiu was out in 2012 after all) but it's really useful.
Seth Enosh
Member
It's always interesting to see these threads because it's clear that some people either never pressed the TV button and saw it was a remote, or more likely never opened TVii and saw it was a horrendously slow version of the cable box TV guide.
Hidden One
Member
It's still real to me dammit.
Yeah seriously!
I'm kinda fed up of using amazon.fr, heck I stopped buying 3DS game this year because of that.
It's actively pushing me to using my Nintendo hardware less and less, they need to get with the times.
Hang on, lemme go boot up the Youtube app and I'll tell you
What do you mean? Remote controls are so 20th century, darling. What better way to operate your TV than using a massive, clunky Gamepad with its 5 hour battery life.
The WiiU's TV 'integration' was even more of a half-assed waste of time than the XB1's attempt. They should have just enabled HDMI-CEC. That's all you need these days.
What foreign region goodies are people missing out on exactly?
As much as I'd like to see them acquiesce, it's the least of Wii U's troubles. If only ideas like Mario Maker had been there at launch. Hopefully the Splatoon boys and his have won themselves a bigger budget for the coming generation(s)!
As much as I'd like to see them acquiesce, it's the least of Wii U's troubles. If only ideas like Mario Maker had been there at launch. Hopefully the Splatoon boys and his have won themselves a bigger budget for the coming generation(s)!
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
redmetal86
Member
I've only used TVii twice. Once to predict the winner of a basketball game, and once more to draw on Vegeta and Krillin's face during Dragon Ball Z. Can't say I'll be too sad over it going away. If only it was faster.
Seth Enosh
Member
The RAM is to hold the Web Browser. Six full tabs take up a lot of ram in a WebKit browser.
The slowness of the OS is just in opening and closing apps: the friends list is an app, so is miiverse, etc. each one seems to take up to 5 seconds to open. Considering the relative hardware and the fact that it's not much slower than the Xbox One OS which runs on much more powerful hardware, I'm not sure there's too much room left for improvement unless they abandoned the app paradigm.
It's not about that.
It's 2015, if you move out of the region it's an unecessary roadblock.
Chances are if the people moving are moving their console with them, they're dedicated enough that they would probably consider buying games for it if given the chance.
As it is now if you have a ps4 you can, if you got a WiiU you can't.
Strider_Blaze
Member
Not a personal, huge loss for me considering I've only ever used TVii once and that was to enter a Nickelodeon Sweepstakes to win a free game (which I didn't win lol).
Least I could still use the TV remote function on the GamePad.
Least I could still use the TV remote function on the GamePad.
It was a nice concept; it just wasn't well executed.
The Gamepad loses charge even when not in use. Turning it off doesn't shut it down fully. It just goes into a low power state. A full charged Gamepad will go flat in a few days of non-use.
Unless you have the charging cradle next to your sofa (I do, by many won't) then the battery life is a major issue.
Interceptor
Banned
Bad trolls are bad.
Wildschwein
Member
No Full RGB option yet, is there?
I've accepted that it's probably because the gamepad outputs limited RBG and it can't process the game in both simultaneously.
I've accepted that it's probably because the gamepad outputs limited RBG and it can't process the game in both simultaneously.
Well, this is giving the US Wii U exactly the same TVii functionality that Europe has, so yes!
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