superchunk on 13 May 2013
| greenmedic88 said: I'm sure if you contacted the Nintendo service department and had a registered Wii U on record, they'd probably sell you a game pad, even if you had to make up some sort of BS story like "it was stolen" "someone took it out of the house and lost it" etc. It probably wouldn't be cheap, but I seriously doubt they would tell the Wii U owner "sorry sir/ma'am, but you'll just have to buy another console if you want another game pad." I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason why Nintendo isn't shipping them to retail outlets currently is because there is no reason for anyone to have two since no games support it, and because production costs are probably still at a point where Nintendo would essentially be breaking even if they wanted to sell them at a reasonable price that didn't create consumer backlash. On the plus side, there are decent odds that Nintendo may release an improved or upgraded version of the pad by the time dual/multi pad support is introduced. Or at least different colors, which is something Nintendo consumers have shown they like. |
People have and said it was $150.
Broken, under warranty pads seem to be billed as $90.
This was info that came out shortly after launch.
