By default, the Wii U shuts down if you leave it unattended for a certain amount of time. This feature is called the ‘automatic shutoff’ and can be configured for your preference. If you accidentally leave your Wii U powered on while you’re asleep, if the feature is set, the console will shut down on its own, which will save electricity. However, if you don’t want this nifty feature to initiate, you can turn it off completely.
That’s a nice feature, though I will be turning it off. I regularly leave my consoles running if I have to leave but I am a while from a save point.
Guys epic mickey on the 3ds is amaizing 1 best game this holiday for any console,and the good thing is not a watered down console version
Have you not heard about Assassin’s Creed 3, Dishonored, New Super Mario Bros. U, Borderlands 2. Your statement is complete bullshit.
To be honest with you. Not everyone has the same preferences in games.
Epic Mickey Power of Illusion is indeed one of 3DS Best titles coming.
He thought it was the Wii U version, so his comment is completely irrelevant.
Sry girl i forgot the “1 of the best” part
What an idiot! So someone likes a game that you dont…fuck’n baby.
I’m not sure having this feature be on by default is such a good idea. I can see people freaking out about their console randomly shutting down, losing the saves, and such.
Almost sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
If you don’t have a brain….
The PS3 and 360 have had the feature since forever now, humanity has proven itself able to cope.
Neither of them have this particular feature.
Yes they do. Check the systems’ settings.
How could he knew, he dosnt own any of them or he would have not posted something so stupid
Even if he didn’t know there is something called Google that would answer it
Great I wanted this in console
Then you are screw all consoles have it
Seriously? A hugely minor feature that has been on most electronic devices for the past ten years and you think it’s newsworthy?
Yup! ^__^ Because it’s the first Nintendo platform to include this awesome feature.
the stupid daemon from ign said the xbox 360 did not have the feature
Well it definitely isn’t on the PS3 because my family always leaves mine on after watching films and the controllers run out of battery. So yes, I found it to be worthy of news.
The PS3 has it, the issue is that it’s rather long. 6 hours by default.
Well I never changed the settings in regards to this, so you must have to activate it manually.
You can set the ps3 controller to turn off after like 10 minutes of inactivity so that won’t be a problem for you
I can set my PS3 to do that after an hour of inactivity. You are lying.
infernalstorm is indeed VERY misinformed: not only the PS3 has this feature, but it ALSO lets you set a time for the *controllers* to shut off on their own, saving battery, as Vylash said.
I just assumed that if it had the function, they would’ve had it turned on by default. My PS3 did not have it turned on, but now going through the settings, I realise that I am incorrect.
and we believe you because?
They don’t have it set to default, because some don’t know
About it, and you wouldn’t want to find
Out by losing a save
Point or download when the system seemingly turned off on it’s own. This is true for 360 and
PS3 which both have multiple time options for shutoff.
I am now surpIsed that Nintendo will have it set as a default. Perhaps they will display this option during initial setup.
my ps3 fat turns itself off, just before it goes on fire. gonna get the super slim next week, and wii u on the 30th.
Yeah, but a lot of the original PS2s overheated and were broken because of it.
I have both PS3 and Wii U…both have the feature which is cool. It is old school but its new for some people…leave them alone.
first time I’ve heard of it on a video game console…
360 has it.
Original xbox had it.
Don’t own a PS3 so I’m not sure about that, but I’d assume it has it too.
As said above it does. I regularly leave it on 2 hours as I have the same problem mentioned above: my wife uses it to watch netflix and often falls asleep, letting the system on.
Don’t be such a douche. It’s all over IGN and the rest. It’s usefull for us to know!!! I am just going to switch the feature off. BUT , it’s a good feature to have.
But ign said it like is a bad thing
Yeh , becuase the wiiu has this feature automatically as a default. But you can switch it off , so it’s not a problem at all :)
That’s a good feature. I remember I forgot to turn off my Wii one night.
And if you don’t want that, you just change the settings. Everybody wins !
the future is finally upon us this is rad
Very sweet innovation by the Big N! Like my Blu-Ray home theater system, the Wii U automatically shuts off after not being used in at least 15 to 20 minutes.
wrong use of the word ‘innovation’ there buddy
Why not?? It is for a nintendo console
Well… not very innovative compared to other consloes. Thats like saying Plays Station All-Stars Battle Royale is innovative… for Sony…. -__-
While it’s not innovative, the game plays quite different from Smash, tbh.
Hard for me to call it a ripoff in anything but genre and premise, come to think of it.
You will regret the use of the aelous name
don’t forget to save and why it shuts down on it’s on well it’s a secret to everybody
it’s probably in the manual
Cool, that’ll be a + feature to have
Good feature but I will turn it off since I want to be responsible to turn it off.
Yeah me too.
good one lol
same here.
It would be awesome if it could somehow shut down (or go into sleep mode) incase of a game running pre-save point
Thats imposible in new console games cause it takes alot of memory
And you’ll have to turn if off whenever you download something… >.>
Downloading something is system activity.
Or they could create a setting where it will automatically shut down after downloading a big game from the eShop.
There is…auto power down gets turned off during downloads. My wii u tells me every time.
The ouya,the next xbox and ps4 would be able to do this as well. Hell, even my phone can do that. This articles point?
Nintendo’s going green for once…or as close to it as they can.
for once? the wii required 20 watts of power peak^^
mines black actually. lol
i’m sure they will.. now that nintendo has set the bar concerning consoles
current consoles can’t even though the technology has been there for ages (my pc could do it since windows 98 and i know that with custom programs it was possible even before that)
you’ll have to explain to me however what a smartphone has to do with a console
correction: the xbox360 can apparently even tho i’ve never heard of this feature before
it’s still noteworthy since it’s apparently not standard
it has to be standard now…..
I sort of wish the Wii U would instead do a sleep mode feature for how long we could have the system on instead of this, but oh well. :s
It probably can bro… The wii had wiiconnect24! so don’t discount some sort of ”Download whilst you sleep” mode just yet.
the wiiconnect24 was basically the wii being in idle state however.. it was no sleep state..
the wii still used about 9-10 watts in that state which is way more than a sleep state would consume (about 0.5-2 watts)
however in sleep state only the volatile ram is being powered (to preserve data) any kind of background activity would be impossible in that state
background activity requires more power
As long as I can adjust the time. Sometimes I leave my PS3 on for a long time unattended on purpose.
I might turn this off at certain times,but it is still great to have. Sometimes , I leave my systems on for a long time which really uses my battery.
One time I fell asleep while playing my Wii so this should be pretty useful lol
I fall asleep while playing f zero gx and the think that woke me up was my vehicle about to blow up
Aren’t you not supposed to drive in fatigue? You almost died in F-Zero! That’s worse than distracted driving. Haha reminds me of playing MH3 with some friends, texting and hunting is very dangerous too.
I want to know if it has a sleep download feature, and if download counts as being inactive. Pain in the ass having to leave my ps3 on when i download something, often when i go to bed, and it just stays on once its downloaded.
That’s why I put my time limit on 5 hour since that should be more than enough for a download, plus my brother leave it on often when watching Netflix. I think you can set it to turn on for updates if you have play station plus.
Good feature but I wont be using it but always good to have
with the wii that wasn’t much of an issue since it used ~10 watts in idle
i’m sure this will be useful though
i hope it stores the session in RAM however and remains in a sort of sleep mode so you can pick up where you left off
my bad it used about 16-17 watts in idle
still not much compared to a PC (~100-120w) or an xbox360 (~90w on newer models.. about twice as much on the original model) that are left in idle
Not exactly cutting edge.. But the little things are nice to have!
198 hours til launch!
Meh, nothing new, PS3 and 360 could do this already… Didn’t really need to be mentioned to be perfectly honest…
I struggle to see anything amazing coming out of Nintendo.
Haha fuuunny!!! I get your reference… “Peter”!!! ;) (wink, wink)
I see what you did there, buddy ;)
I love getting paid to trashtalk Nintendo. But once again… I struggle to see anything amazing coming out of Nintendo.
I honestly did not know about this on any other console. This is good, but I will turn off the feature.
if i leave it on ill leave it on for a reason
I am definitely using this feature since I want my Wii U to be eco-friendly.
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I dont understand this feature for hardcore gamers. Me, I have the complete oposite feature. If I lose electicity for 2-3 hours, my TV and Wii U will continue to play because of the battery pack I got. But no online of course.. so If I was playing Black ops 2 online .. im fucked.
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that’s a very welcoming feature. good going nintendo.
This feature has been present with the PS3 and PSP since launch. Just now catching up Ninty?
Pfthahahaha!
Shut up, Meg.
i can say the same with kinect and move too.
ands lets not forget smartglass and vitanic oh and by the way how is selling vitanic to consumer going along?
god knows why nintendo would opt to put this feature [on] by default but its a not a big deal. just switch the settings, and be glad your able to do it :l
all im saying is that stores are selling WiiU’s for $500 here in chicago. BASIC WiiU for 500.
im from chicago im not seeing any store doing that, where are you looking at?
Its a store that’s guaranteeing a wiU at launch but like I said, its $500, ill ask my coworker on Monday, he’s the one. Who told me about it.
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