Played some blops with pointer controls, awesome, just like wii but with HD graphics. I can see myself putting many hours into this thing. Still have to try Zombie U, AC3, nintendoland and SMBU. Not enough hours in a day and I have to go to some 2 year olds b-day party now. Goddamed casual 2 year old babies ruining my day of old man nerd video game heaven.

2. No as far as i can tell im playing NSMB U away from the Wii u in another room and no sensor near by

2. Right now im doing the play on the pad test to see how long the battery lasts, so far im been playing the game since 11:45am est no battrery icon yet.  As far as the question, the wii u pad is constantly showing something on the screen, you cannot shut it off to view only the TV while pad is in hand.

Follow to above question.
On the game pad options you have the ability to choose power-saving mode (dont know what that implies) you can also reduce the screen brightness and turn off rumble which most likely increases the battery of the pad

Damn casuals...

I'd be intrigued to hear opinions on ZombiU in particular now. It sounds so...marmite-y, and that's a concern. Why? Why does it have so many varied reviews? 

A crazy world.

My son was with me when I set the remote feature and thought that is was too cool that it was setup in a matter of seconds.

edit again (learning as I go I apologize): Yes you can turn off the display off the display of the gamepad

Can you download games from the disc to the console?

Thanks, Train wreck!

Good to hear, if the game I´m playing only uses the pad screen to show exactly the same thing as the TV, then I definitely want that screen off to conserve battery.

Really? That's quite...unusual I guess...

Is there any games which can be played solely on the Gamepad? The E3 2011 demo showed Chess, for example.

just picked up my wii u updating it now