idk what kind of disposable income you have, but to call a WiiU cheap is pretty annoying to people that have to really work at saving up enough money to afford one. the prices on amazon for example are basically my entire paycheck. even the one i got from gamestop still took me a month of saving to buy. home consoles aren't so cheap that everyone can just buy one because they want to waste their money on bricking it with an experimental hack.
If $89.00 is an entire paycheck, you need to look more closely at the minimum wage laws in your state.
You'd have to be making less than $2.25 an hour for it to take an entire paycheck.
I can buy a working 8GB wii-u console for $89.00 any day of the week on eBay.
(less, if I want to use "Make Offer".)
It would be with no pad, but you don't brick the pad when you experiment with CFW.
Yes, I have a couple that I bricked, but that's par for the course when you want to "play" at this level.
This is a hobby more than anything else. I fly RC Aircraft/Copters/Drones and when you crash trying something new, it cost much more than $89.00, but that's just how it goes.
That said, this is why people don't release
anything that could possibly brick someone else's console.
What works just fine as an exploit for me, might just brick your console.
Not worth the trouble. (
especially if you would need to work a month to replace it).
-dl