Not because of the price drops, they're a fact of life. But because I've just paid £25 to get an improved battery for my Wii U controller and found this...

Upon opening my controller

The new battery in comparison.

New battery now fitted to my pad.

What's the big deal? I bought my Wii U Premium for £349.99 on launch day and upon opening it, clearly got a gimped battery which barely managed 2 hours of game time without needing charging and I've had to pay a further £25 for the privelage of having a moderately acceptable battery life which is now included as standard apparently with the newer Wii U systems (traditionally Nintendo reduced functionality rather than improved it).

We all got the same battery...

So you're mad because you got a standard battery...  This article's title makes it clickbait...

I feel cheated in that Nintendo is selling refrubished 32GB deluxe with Nintendo Land for $200 dolllars

I got the deluxe bundle of mk8. I got the stock 1500mah battery. Not the larger one.

Well I've been told newer Wii U's ship with the higher capacity battery installed. And the fact that it was clearly designed for a bigger battery means the one I was given paying full whack for the console was provided whilst knowingly being inadequate.

Thats what usually happens when you are an early adopter for all consoles... The ups of owning a wiiU at launch is the 30 cent games as well as other goodies and being able to play with their next gen console first but the downs are that it is the first edition which usually = has issues that will be fixed in later revisions and if anyone buys the first edition thinking otherwize, then its their fault they bought it at launch cause this type of stuff happens to every console/handheld launch ever

This is an "issue" that was clearly obvious though. Hence the pad already had the bay for the higher capacity battery.

Nintendo actually tend to remove functionality from their consoles with hardware revisions.

Whether it was shipping with inferior cables after launch (SNES and N64), or in the Wii's case having GCN playback removed first, then removing Wifi etc too on the Wii Mini.

The biggest issue I have had with the Wii U since launch, is the attrocious battery life of the pad. So I'm sorry, but it's an utter insult to me that they intentionally shipped it with shit batteries to later sell a better battery (which as far as I know is now included as standard with Wii U consoles). It's hardly a hardware revision. This to me is the equivalent of "on disc DLC" to others.

If it was a hardware revision, I'd need a new pad to improve the battery life, and I'd be a lot more okay with that.

I'm pretty sure current Wii U bundles still come with this battery. We all technically got ripped off, going by what you're saying.

Yeah, I think it's bullshit. They should have done what they did with the Wii Remote gel thing and mailed it to people for free.