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teigaga on 16 September 2012

The Wii U pad has headphones jacks and I'm assuming the main purpose is for when you want to play games on the control as opposed to TV. I wanted to know if you can have the game displayed on the tv and still use the headphones?

If so this would be amazing for me personally, theres always  so much noise in my house I can never really appreciate the sound design/music in games. This would definitely lead to me getting a Wii U early next year. 



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RedInker on 16 September 2012
teigaga said:

The Wii U pad has headphones jacks and I'm assuming the main purpose is for when you want to play games on the control as opposed to TV. I wanted to know if you can have the game displayed on the tv and still use the headphones?

If so this would be amazing for me personally, theres always  so much noise in my house I can never really appreciate the sound design/music in games. This would definitely lead to me getting a Wii U early next year. 



Just plug your headphones into your TV.



Ostro on 16 September 2012

I suppose this is for chatting. They showed multiple times that you can easily start (video) chatting. So it's most likely used for your headset/headphones if you don't want to use the GamePad's speaker/mic.