A number of Wii U users are saying they can’t watch videos on YouTube via the new console’s browser. Apparently, the video-sharing website loads on Wii U’s browser, but the play buttons don’t display. If this is true, this means that the only way to watch YouTube videos on Wii U is via the abysmal YouTube application.
first i was afraid, then i was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side?
But then I spent so many nights thinking, how you did me wrong
and I grew strong and I knew…something something something….
OPPA GANGAM STYLE!
(sorry I am using your comment.)
If you want to watch streaming movies and shows on your Wii U this is a wonderful site:
http://www.mobilevids.org/
for animes:
http://www.iani.me/
You guys just won the internet
thanks for ruining it
CHUGGAACONROY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you know him?
The miiverse was spammed with “spam YouTube feedback” “battle for you rights” and so on there was even someone who got banned it was fun watching the whole thing.
That was creative and funny so I hall not hate.
#fuckinEpic!
yeah idk whats up it’s kinda trashy on nintendos behalf.
Apparently this is not an issue with Nintendo but with YouTube.
yeah i am starting to hate youtube
Exactly. They developed the browser which outperformed YouTube’s own app. Then again, I should have guessed they’d do as poor of job on a core redesign as their Wii U app.
Hopefully it gets fixed soon
it won’t
first i was afriad, then i was petrified
Deja Vu?
That app is horrible
It don’t even let you view comments :/
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That user name…. is freaking awesome! i wanted to have that username on my YouTube but it was taken D:
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um dude it happen to me, and later in the day it work again, the headline is false but yeah sometimes it works and sometimes it just stop.
I confirm.
Fuck you Google.
i second this, anyways youtube sucks now (it does since google bought the company) but more since they changed the channels to this black shit they got now D:
Wii U will prevail.
What. the. ****?!?!?! >.>
*Not that I ever used YT on my Wii U*
But okay….
vita version is better
The Vita version is better….
But I still barely use that version either.
Why? No, in fact, how?
All web browsers on an console or handhelds have been horrible till now, not to mention slow as hell, including the Vita.
From everything ive seen, the WiiU one almost works as well as on an iPhone or iPad. Plus the screen is bigger, and you can use a tv and switch between the 2 in a second.
“Oh youtube suddenly stopped working on WiiU, vita is better”. No? Youtube being dumb cunts as usual doesnt show the WiiU’s “true colours” or any bullshit like that.
We are talking about the YouTube app, silly dipshit.
This article is about the browser version, genius.
HA! you own him there.^^^
Man! You got Aeolus good!
Up top! :D
That’s nice. But once again, me and Simply G were talking about the app, silly dipshit.
Reading comprehensive, are you not good at it?
sion*
Yes, I got that you were talking about the app.
The point being that discussion about the respective performance of each of the various apps is utterly bloody pointless here, and has nothing to do with the superior browser version.
That’s not my problem. I’ll bring up any sort of discussion regardless of relevance wherever the hell I please.
On topic, the “superior browser version” is clearly not functioning for the time being and a half-assed alternative is the only option right now. Come to think of it, Vita is still better by the mere fact that the handheld isn’t confined within a limited range/area when it comes to portable use. Of course, it’s possible you’re one of those hipsters who actually watch YouTube on their TV or something…
But yeah, I suppose the browser’s variant is “superior”, if that makes your underclocked 360 feel better.
So there we go then, as you’ve admitted through gritted teeth, the browser version is superior.
Proof that everything you’ve said here prior to this point is entirely redundant.
Until the next time. :)
What a prick, lol
RE: No, but it does show its true value. You’d think Wii(2)U would be able to handle the memory, what with it being the “improved” version of its predecessor and not just some rehashed Wii with a gimmicky, downgraded i-Pad wannabe controller. But alas.. ¬_¬
Thank the heavens I bought a PSVita – it works SO much better than the Wii and Wii(2)U’s YouTube app. What a shame, really, yet somehow not unexpected.
And by “better”, dont refer to the app, because theyre awful, its even dogshit on my iPhone, not to mention pointless when i care just bookmark the actually site that has more functions than the app.
You’ve never used the Vita version, silly dipshit.
Your opinion means nothing.
Again, app.
The performance of the app is meaningless if i can just access the good version via the browser, just like i can do on my iPhone, which has a HORRIBLE youtube app, and the same that everyones been doing with the WiiU. So how good the Vita’s app is, is pointless, because the WiiU and iPhone can load the better version, the official website.
Love to see people use the Vita’s browser and pull up youtube.
“Good version via the browser”
which as you can tell does not exist right now
I was not aware that every app was the same by the way, so I don’t care about your iPhone YT app.
How good the Vita’s Youtube app happens to be is very relevant considering it does not have a flash player in the web browser.
Also, the Wii U is not a portable device, which again, makes whatever advantage it has absolutely meaningless for people who actually have lives and don’t watch YouTube on a fucking console of all things. lel
so in short,
are you like
stupid
simple
or slow?
The Vita’s portable aspect is pointless, because the 3G is shit, and most people have an iphone or android that’ll do the job better.
It doesnt change the fact how superior goes on the browser youtube is to any app. Again, suddenly the Youtube on the web browser goes down, temporarily. “Better put on my Vita armour and spend the word”.
Fuck off
at the end of the day, wi-fi hotspots or even 4G tethering will work with the Vita while the Wii U is confined within your house or wherever the hell you have it, meaning watching youtube on that is absolutely retarded as opposed to just a goddamn PC or laptop
I don’t know what difference loading youtube, whether it be an app or in the “Browser” (cause, you know, every mobile browser is the same and not different at all) is supposed to make
seems you’re just being an idiot for the sake of being an idiot so I’ll say all of the above for my previous reply :)
Actualy is more retarded to watch on a pc or laptop.
How so?
Electric usage cost more to turn on a pc for1 hour than a wiiu for 3
Dude, shut the fuck up. You are literally delusional.
Oh and laptops have batteries, so you’re still retarded.
Nintendo followers are starting to sound like Greenpeace >_>
O aelous i thoug at least you got some functional brain cells, why the Hell will any 1 turn on a laptop in there own home and why turn on a pc for a few vídeos and get the eléctric bills skyhigh.
Who the fuck carea for a bush the only green i want to save is my money
we never said the smartphones can’t do that you idiot and we are comparing Wii U against Vita not a laptop now where is your backup with the Vita?
Or people who have “lives” and aren’t on the web defending/literally humping their childhood prodigy, Nintendo? LOL, too funny. Well, if you excuse me, I have an actual “life” to attend, ta-tah my possibly welfared friend.
coming from someone who trolls everyday on a website yeah that what life is about *sarcasm*
youtube is working now any backups?
Ha yah sure it is.
i have a vita and its not that great, i prefer my
galaxy and even that isnt all that good too..
What is a “Vita?” Is that the new $250 controller for the PS3 that fails as a controller but has a few games on it to make up for it?
Or is it the Sony Cell Phone that decided to try and be a handheld instead?
I’m so confused!
It’s a stand alone handheld device that plays HD games in the palm of your hand but you new that already you fanboy jackass.
Why call him a jackass? Because he made a brilliant comeback to the “Is the Wii U an accessory for the Wii” jokes? Because his wit far outclasses yours? Thought so
The difference is nobody has been calling the Vita an accessory, nor was it witty in any particular way.
You’re just as retarded as him.
And Arrogance =\= intellegence. So stop pretending to be some fuckin prodigy.
Being called retarded by you and your ilk is actually reassuring, Aeolus. Intelligence or wit can’t really appreciated be appreciated by your lot, so…
I love how Aeolus tries to not comment when someone says if he doesn’t like Nintendo why does he go here. Hahaha.
My Nintendo ID is Moodeeb. (If you have a WiiU)
Proud owner of a launch day Premium Wii U :)
My Nintendo ID is darkgamer.
My ID is R00bot (spelt with zeroes haha)
Ah! Thanks for clearing that up!
And compliments will get you nowhere!
Shh… There, there, little one. Rest yer wee, tiny head right here [giggity]. No need to overload your brain all at once.
So this way they make you download a YouTube app, man watching videos with family and friends would’ve perfect, Google is basically taking every popular thing!
WOW.
mine is working fine. im currently watching tolling 101 on sockpuppettheatre.com
just checked, isn’t working for me either
flash was being a pain yesterday, i wonder if it’s somehow related to that
also this browser is really fast wth
ikr… it’s weird. Never thought a browser could get this fast
Ughhhhh, ya, it’s not working on mine! One of my favorite features of the WiiU was just taken away from me. That’s fucking bullshit!
The people that run Youtube must be retarded…
All of their “official” apps suck, they change the layout every week, and just general fuck up-ary is constant
Thank the Google buyout for that…. Went way downhill after that.
I mean i have, or was forced a youtube app on my iphone, and before, it was okay, then it was just horrible, but i can just make a shortcut onto my home screen, to take me to the actually mobile site, which has pretty much every function of this PC site, so whats the point? Same with the WiiU, clearly everyone took one look at the app version, jumped ship, and used the browser.
I some how commented on the actual picture….wtf
But yea it’s bollocks that they did that
I’ve had this issue. I was all like “WTF” why won’t this work?
yeah i first though it was the internet but then my signal works fine, but when it loading the video it said something odd, i have to reload, the same thing. Sometimes it works fines others time it just stops.
What the actual fuck.
What the actual fuck.
Oops, double post.
Well why not use Wii Mode Youtube application? I’ve heard it’s great(no, not the browser version).
So how do we do this?
I smell a cospiracy.
just use a computer, why is this even a problem?
You are stupid if you have to ask.
Thats not how you get someone to use your app Google……
Gotdang it Bobby, now how am I suppposed to watch my videos on the bottom screen? Stupid YouTube app…
this*
just let me watch youtube videos on the gamepad and then I will use your app
Why would anyone use the app when the WiiU browser is lightning fast and plays videos amazingly?
Working fine in the US. What country is having problems?
Why is there a WiiU youtube app anyway? It’s unnecessary and inefficient.
Is it working for you and you are in the usar?
Usa *
Yep working for me, but if it’s a google / Youtube issue, makes sense that it’s inconsistently failing for different folks.
It’s supposed to go with the TVii app.
THE U.S. for me!!!
sometime, not all the time.
You can still watch videos on the browser…kind of.
What you need to do is copy the embed link and it should work, so i’m guessing they screwed something up and might get fixed soon (I hope).
http://www.youtube.com/embed/w0qQkSuWOS8 is an example.
You can workaround this for now using a embed link:
like : youtube.com/embed/VIDEOCODE
just get rid of watch?v= and anything & and past
so instead of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryp3_5kUGUo&feature=g-high-rec
use this: youtube.com/embed/ryp3_5kUGUo
just edit the url in the broswer of your video to be a embed link.
This defiantly needs a real fix though.
Thank god it may be temporal.
Yeah, the first thing I did when the videos stopped loading was this method.
I remember the same happened with my internet browser just a few weeks ago on the PC. Thank god.
Now, back to cracking up over Game Grump’s and their Sonic 06 let’s plays. XD
And it got fix or you still use this metod?
YEAH! Their Spice Girls vid is also hilarious (that ending…).
Thanks bud
I noticed this earlier when I was trying to watch my favorite Minecraft tekkit series. This is really horrible if it’s permanent- the Youtube app is complete garbage. :(
I guess this is would be odd, do to the fact that Google updated there Youtube app for Wii U.
Well, the Wii U wasn’t meant to watch YouTube videos anyways. It’s meant to play GAMES.
who told you that? Cause i always knew it was multymedia device.
@Nintenlord,
Just saying, it’s a video game console. It always annoyed me when people wanted to do INTERNET stuff on a game console. That’s all.
Well, what about a video walkthrough? using the browser its possible, but -not- with the app. at least, not without exiting the game yknow? also, i use it as a wiki when playing certain console games as i can have the tablet next to me to look at when i need it, rather than go back and forth from pc to living room.
I really hope this comes back, as the app is impractical, requires the television, and is broken to the point that my subscriptions come up as “no videos”. Besides, I always like being able to bring up new videos as soon as the previous one finished.
What’s wrong with the YouTube browser that the console already comes with, it works fine when the console actually connects to the internet…
Look up ”supernariolinux” on miiverse. He has found a solution.
thats me btw ;)
Whey! It’s a small world is it not?
that sucks cuz its way faster and easier in the browser
This is all related to a recent Youtube Layout change, a recent update (yesterday) caused the issue.
it’s probably getting some updates and nintendo is gonna fix it nothing stays broken.
This has to be absolutley dreadful! The Youtube application on every console is terribly broken and ill designed. Its slow, clunky, and lacks very basic features. Either they unblock us from using Youtube in the web browser, or they fix that sorry excuse of an app.
The VITA one seems fine.
I haven’t tried the VITA one because I always assumed it was as bad as the PS3/WiiU/Xbox 360’s. :P
Haha nah :P It’s actually alright
We need to get this to Google and Nintendo, no reason for this.
Weird. The videos won’t work on the actual YouTube site but they will play if imbedded into a blog post.
I really dread Frash Frash & Co.’s reaction to this, since the previous version of YouTube worked amazingly well on the Wii U browser which has the “Show & Trailers” curtain. Bra-friggin-vo, Google.
I figured this has somethin to do with youtube’s update..
Just get rid of watch?v= and anything & and paste
So instead of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryp3_5kUGUo&feature=g-high-rec use this: youtube.com/embed/ryp3_5kUGUo
Not true, i just watched the new Pacific Rim Trailer on the Wii U browser via de IGN page with an embedded youtube video an it worked fine
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Doesn’t work anymore on my wiiu (europe). Youtube was really fast in the browser! Hopefully the app will get an update soon :/
That’s it. The app was frankly worthless and now they’ve gone and broken playback in the browser version too. If YouTube don’t fix this in a week, i’ll have to start a petition or a prolonged spam campaign or something.
Can I just say as a huge Nintendo fan I apologise for anything Nintenlord has said, please do not think all nintendo fans are like that. I personally think the Vita is brilliant
What the fuck did i say about the vita you piece of human waste.
Best Phone ever! But I’m having trouble figuring out how to place calls, any Tips?
Also, I can’t seem to get it to work as a controller, but I swear Sony said it was one. I keep it in range of the PS3, but when I move the analogs, my character doesn’t move. I can’t keep up with all this technology stuff. :(
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Abysmal? The app is pretty damn good. It’s just lacking some fairly obvious things (like comments) and someone decided it would be a good idea to make you use buttons for the player controls when there’s a huge touchscreen in the middle of the controller. Otherwise, I dig the interface and playback speed and quality.
First the new Youtube design (which I hate), and now Youtube disabled this. Great -.-
Dear Nintendo,
Stop creating good things then shooting yourself in the face by making them worse and worse and worse.
Sincerely,
Every Nintendo Fan Ever.
This isn’t Nintendo this is you tubes fault… I can’t watch videos on my mobile browser either
um…Nintendo never made YouTube at all…..what have you been smoking at son?
I hope they fix that situation fast.
Its just not fast anymore.
even my streaming from my computer stopped working
Hello! If you change the “watch?v=” part of the youtube url to watch_popup?=v it will play as before. So this isn’t a technical issue at all, they turned it off.
sorry typo, watch_popup?v=
That’s what the application is for. Why use the browser?
Cause is better? You knew if you had 1.
Love this demo.
This doesn’t have anything to do with Nintendo its youtube… I can’t watch videos on my mobile browser either so it’s not a WiiU problem
“Abysmal” is kinda an big overreaction… I personaly prefer it over webbrowser version.
” I personaly prefer it over webbrowser version.”
Then you’re insane the Youtube app is a big pile of shit.
You can’t comment on the app, or like/dislike a video. Not discounting the fact that when I click on my subscribers it comes up ”No videos available” this happens like every-fucking time. And this piece of shit of an app has froze on me,
If google is responsible for this then I’m done with them. Time to switch over to Bing lool
In other news, the play bars were not coming up on my Mac computer when using Sarfari, they must have discontinued it on that too. Nah, youtube is just glitchy.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!I hate the Youtube app!
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youtube still works on the wii-u browser just go to share then embedded and copy just the link, paste it to the address bar and just like magic there you go!
its not that bad but its sucks balls thow at least you can watch videos in 1080p
Again with the Flame Wars…………
fuck you jeff why are you here
Excuse me, but i’m not a troll. I’m not even that Aeolus guy.
This is fucking bullshit.
Well no shit! It won’t work on the Wii U’s Internet Browser, because…
1. IT DOESN’T SUPPORT ADOBE FLASH PLAYER!
2. http://www.youtube.com DOES NOT SUPPORT HTML5 VIDEO YET!
3. You can ONLY watch YouTube videos with the YouTube app on the Wii U.
Umm…HELLO! did you even use the browser? It DID work on the Wii U Browser and then YouTube changed it and then it was LESS ACCESSIBLE. You can still play YouTube videos on the Wii U Browser, the functionality isn’t broken, it’s the access to it.
Secondly, I’ve already dispensed this information on Miiverse, but lets actually try to enact the change that we all want to see happen. Go to YouTube, scroll down to the bottom, click ‘Leave Feedback’ and voice your grievances.
Anyone who cares about restoring the Wii U Browser version of YouTube to its former glory should do this. I’ve already done so. Your turn.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! I ONLY WATCH VIDEOS ON MY WII U BROWSER! I NEED YOU GUYS TO FIX THIS PROBLEM OF NON-WORKING VIDEOS! I HATE THE YOUTUBE APPLICATON ON THE WIIU, SO I ONLY GO TO YOUTUBE ON THE BROWSER ONLINE.
Mines just slow as hell all of a sudden when it was the fastest browser out there its now a joke they better sort it.
Here’s the problem why Youtube might not work on the Wii U browser:
Youtube’s main browser is Flash-based.
The Wii U doesn’t support Flash.
Therefore, they would be a blank spot where it is.
The HTML5 version of Youtube, the version that the Wii U browser does support, is currently in beta, and may not be enabled by default.
To enable it, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Of course, it usually enables by itself if it detects if your browser supports HTML5, but not all the time.
I was having the same issues a few days ago and I hate it because I have to use the freaking TVand the app of youtube to view my videos. God, I am pissed.
Go to YouTube and click the ‘Send Feedback’ button. Then, POLITELY tell about this problem and how it should be fixed.
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theres a way to still watch just replace the phrase watch?v=, with the word `embed/’ in the url
the wii u can still play videos from dailymotion or myvideo so its youtubes problem not nintendos
it doesn’t have any problems with youtube it runs PERFECTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this app sucks
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i stop using my wii u cause i dont find any game appealing to me so i only used it to youtube on the browser. now that it’s disable i went back on my pc to do it instead and my wii u is jst collecting dust till i find a game that i like. =(
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youtube works fine though my wü browser so ive no idea what everones one about the video comes up and then it goes to wü player no probs
this is bullshit im watching youtube on the browser now
all you have to do is click the vid it will show