{"id":1254,"date":"2012-11-27T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:19:02","slug":"wii-u-demo-unit-displays-hit-the-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/11\/wii-u-demo-unit-displays-hit-the-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii U Demo Unit Displays Hit The Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demo units for the Wii U have been hitting the stores and our own Ghostwalker checked the one pictured above out at Walmart. I&#8217;ve personally seen them at Best Buy so far. The display unit is limited, but hopefully in the near the future you&#8217;ll be able to do a lot more with it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Currently the Canadian version allowed us to select Rayman Legends, however the TV the Wii U was hooked up to was turned off. I tried transfering the Gamepad screen to the TV, but it still seemed the TV was\u00a0indeed\u00a0turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Ghostwalker had a similar experience with no playable demo, but at least getting to look through a bit more having the TV to interact with. I must admit, the gamepad is as light as they say. It does have a good feel to it, but it is indeed lighter than it looks. That and using the touch screen does feel right. I usually use the stilus for the DS, but the Wii U gamepad just feels like something you should be completely hands on with. Either that or my stilus reliance on the DS explains why I was terrible at Metroid Prime Hunters.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, first impression, I like it! The Wii allowed gamers to virtually interact with wiimote controls. The Wii U allows gamers to feel more in control and have a digital screen with interactive data on it. Well played Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WiiUGamepad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1257\" title=\"WiiUGamepad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WiiUGamepad-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WiiUGamepad-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WiiUGamepad.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><center><\/center><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demo units for the Wii U have been hitting the stores and our own Ghostwalker checked the one pictured above out at Walmart. I&#8217;ve personally seen them at Best Buy so far. The display unit is limited, but hopefully in the near the future you&#8217;ll be able to do a lot more with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75],"tags":[299,300,1386,264],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-wii-u","tag-console","tag-demo-station","tag-nintendo","tag-wii-u"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WiiUWalmart.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-ke","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1340,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/12\/video-of-wii-u-display-unit-at-walmart\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":0},"title":"Video Of Wii U Display Unit At Walmart","date":"December 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Our very own Ghostwalker of Ghostwalker's Glitches has added a new video featuring a view of the Wii U display unit at an American Walmart. As you can see it's mostly just for show right now, letting customers try out the touch screen on the gamepad and browse info on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nintendo Wii U&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/WiiUDisplayVid.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2417,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2013\/04\/nintendo-details-upcoming-wii-u-titles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":1},"title":"Nintendo Details Upcoming Wii U Titles","date":"April 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo sent out a release today detailing some of their upcoming third party titles planned for the Wii U this year, including several titles from Disney and Ubisoft. \"Disney, Ubisoft and our other third-party partners have a great lineup of exclusive games and unique experiences for fans of all ages,\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nintendo Wii U&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nintendo_wii_u.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1211,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/11\/how-will-u-play-this-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":2},"title":"How Will U Play This Weekend?","date":"November 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Obviously if you're a fan of video games, you know this is a huge weekend. The Wii U is taking gaming HD, multi-screen, and adding more fuctionality to the sequel to Nintendo's hit game console, the Wii. So what does Wii U have in store? Lets take a look. First\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nintendo Wii U&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/WiiUDeluxe.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2216,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2013\/03\/injustice-gods-among-us-on-the-wii-u-gamepad\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":3},"title":"Injustice: Gods Among Us On The Wii U GamePad","date":"March 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"At the recent WB Interactive press event we attended to check out Injustice I was able to confirm the role the Wii U GamePad would play NetherRealm's new fighter. Fortunately it's quite a solid concept mainly focusing on displaying your characters special moves on the view screen. This is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nintendo Wii U&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/InjusticeWiiU.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3874,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2013\/10\/wii-party-u-launches-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":4},"title":"Wii Party U Launches Today","date":"October 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for a Wii U Party. Tomorrow the Wii Party U game launches for the Wii U, bringing with it more than 80 mini-games, multiple party modes for people of all ages and unique game play that shows off the creative power of the Wii U GamePad controller. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wii_party_u.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":628,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2012\/09\/nintendo-announces-wii-u-release-date-and-price\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":5},"title":"Wii U Releases in North America November 18th","date":"September 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo of America unveiled the release date and price the the Nintendo Wii U in North America at a press event Thursday morning, just seven hours after Nintendo of Japan had their press announcement. Much of the specific of the console packages were the same as in Japan, but the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nintendo Wii U&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wiiu_direct_02.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}