This site is crazy. I wrote a longer text from mobile. And it was just cut-off. WTF?
So. to replace the upper text. it should read "No, actually they are even more sturdy than e.g. a Wiimote (i know a lot of guys with broken Wiimotes, but none with a broken Gamepad currenly, since it´s very hard to severely damange a WiiU-Gamepad, remember? No stick-drifting? Pretty much only the Wifi-chip can get damaged. Or if you let it fall in water. But then it´s your own issue).
I own 3 gamepads. None is broken currently. And none ever was (in 5 years of usage).
I have several (older) Wiimotes with issues though (the cable got lose after about 5 years, so the connection between an addon-cable/Pro-Controller etc is lose).
The WiiU´s cpu doesn´t use SRAM-cache (cough i only mean the PowerPC) and thus it will last even longer than processors with use standard SRAM-cache-cells. Sram today is known to get broken/damaged fast. Well, typical range is within 5-10 years of operation i mean.
Sram-products include Ram (DRAM-cells use sram-cache after all xD), GPUs and cpus.
And the Disc-drive of a WiiU is also way more sturdy than that of a Wii, i found out years ago.
I allways had problems with my old 2006-Wii, which started to produce bad disc-sounds after 3 years. And it was nearly failing after 4 years. But i simply stopping using it, which is one reason why i got a WiiU after all.
The WiiU uses a way-higher quality disc-drive which is much more heavy for reasons. Because of more sturdyness. It´s motor won´t get problems after 5 years of operation. And it´s laser-pickup (yeah i once examined that) is also of higher quality.
Finally i can only conclude that you can scratch a WiiU-gamepad if you use it for many sessions. And that is easy to replace with a 5$ touchscreen-foil/ts-replacement. The gamepad was made to replace these things easily after all.
Personally i own 3 WiiUs since about 5 years (i was lucky, since somebody got me one. Then my gf got one. And finally i bought another own WiiU and that in total is 3 now, since my gf no longer wants to use it, since she´s just into "pokemon" you know?). I own 3 Gamepads as well.
And i aim to soon buy 3 more WiiU-console-replacement units soon.
Just for personal security-reasons though. Not because i think they will fail. But because i aim to replace a lot of devices with these things.
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This site is crazy. I wrote a longer text from mobile. And it was just cut-off. WTF?
So. to replace the upper text. it should read "No, actually they are even more sturdy than e.g. a Wiimote (i know a lot of guys with broken Wiimotes, but none with a broken Gamepad currenly, since it´s very hard to severely damange a WiiU-Gamepad, remember? No stick-drifting? Pretty much only the Wifi-chip can get damaged. Or if you let it fall in water. But then it´s your own issue).
I own 3 gamepads. None is broken currently. And none ever was (in 5 years of usage).
I have several (older) Wiimotes with issues though (the cable got lose after about 5 years, so the connection between an addon-cable/Pro-Controller etc is lose).
The WiiU´s cpu doesn´t use SRAM-cache (cough i only mean the PowerPC) and thus it will last even longer than processors with use standard SRAM-cache-cells. Sram today is known to get broken/damaged fast. Well, typical range is within 5-10 years of operation i mean.
Sram-products include Ram (DRAM-cells use sram-cache after all xD), GPUs and cpus.
And the Disc-drive of a WiiU is also way more sturdy than that of a Wii, i found out years ago.
I allways had problems with my old 2006-Wii, which started to produce bad disc-sounds after 3 years. And it was nearly failing after 4 years. But i simply stopping using it, which is one reason why i got a WiiU after all.
The WiiU uses a way-higher quality disc-drive which is much more heavy for reasons. Because of more sturdyness. It´s motor won´t get problems after 5 years of operation. And it´s laser-pickup (yeah i once examined that) is also of higher quality.
Finally i can only conclude that you can scratch a WiiU-gamepad if you use it for many sessions. And that is easy to replace with a 5$ touchscreen-foil/ts-replacement. The gamepad was made to replace these things easily after all.
Personally i own 3 WiiUs since about 5 years (i was lucky, since somebody got me one. Then my gf got one. And finally i bought another own WiiU and that in total is 3 now, since my gf no longer wants to use it, since she´s just into "pokemon" you know?). I own 3 Gamepads as well.
And i aim to soon buy 3 more WiiU-console-replacement units soon.
Just for personal security-reasons though. Not because i think they will fail. But because i aim to replace a lot of devices with these things.
Edit: I want to add something- the WiiU personally for me- easily can replace the Wii. The WiiU is simply like a "Super-Wii". It can do many things a Wii will never be able to after all.
But the TRUE reason i got my OWN WiiU (one was a present for me, one my gf got, and stopped using, so now it´s mine as well) - and thus now i´m owning 3 of it is quality guys.
It´s a high-quality-device.
And these things are rare to find today in a world where everybody concentrates on producing stuff, that will fail/overheat in the next...3 years. My WiiUs never overheated (and i operated them at up to 30°C room-temps), they never had an issue. No disc-drives started to "spin around like crazy" (like on my old Wii) and i also never had issues with Wiimotes, not being recognized by my console because of Wiimotes dying.
And yeah- currently i can say: I played even for much longer time-span with my WiiU/WiiUs than i did with my Wii (the Wii literally was just a MonsterHunter/Mario/Zelda/Smash-Bros-Box after all, in a time, where i made my heavy gaming on my PCs. But the WiiU replaced my PC as my gaming-machine and i started learning to program things and found, it´s time for a change in hardware in my house).
