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Jinova on 02 January 2016
Miyamotoo said:
Agree, also my only complain about gamepad, it has battery of around only 4 hours, but you can buy official high capacity battery 2500mAh, last around twice longer.

 


Does that battery also drain when the unit is off?



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Ultrashroomz on 02 January 2016

Yeah I really hate the battery, it just dies on me during a long session of Splatoon or XCX.

There is a high capacity battery that I use, and it's amazing, but it costs an extra $40, which is pretty ridiculous.



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Cloudman on 02 January 2016

It is a bit of a grip for me sometimes, though if I am really determined, I just plug in the charger directly to the gamepad. Though most of the time I just turn off the game and take a break. It's for the better...



 

              

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Conina on 02 January 2016
XanderXT said:
I'm guessing they overestimated the power of the battery.

No, they only used half of the space in the battery compartment. Seems like they planned from the start that people get annoyed and buy the hi-capacity-battery as accessory for $30.





Ultrashroomz on 02 January 2016
Normchacho said:
My god it's fucking awful. How Nintendo thought that it was acceptable I'll never understand, especially since you can't turn off the screen while you're not using it.

Go to the home menu and into control settings, it's right there.





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archer9234 on 02 January 2016

I use a long 3rd party USB charging cable. And plug it in my PS4. So I don't have to go near the box plug the cradle uses. Nintendo really should just put the larger battery in there by default, at this point.

Jinova said:
Miyamotoo said:
Agree, also my only complain about gamepad, it has battery of around only 4 hours, but you can buy official high capacity battery 2500mAh, last around twice longer.

 


Does that battery also drain when the unit is off?

Yes. The quick screen has to be updated.

Normchacho said:
My god it's fucking awful. How Nintendo thought that it was acceptable I'll never understand, especially since you can't turn off the screen while you're not using it.

Which is why I was forced to add a power switch to my Gamepad.



hershel_layton on 02 January 2016

They probably got their batteries from Apple...



 

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Normchacho on 02 January 2016
Ultrashroomz said:
Normchacho said:
My god it's fucking awful. How Nintendo thought that it was acceptable I'll never understand, especially since you can't turn off the screen while you're not using it.

Go to the home menu and into control settings, it's right there.



 


Let me explain my conundrum. I use my Wii U to watch Netflix quite a bit, and it's a pain to have the screen playing whatever I'm watching the whole time. 

So naturally the solution would be to turn it off. Unfortunately, you can only turn off the entire gamepad, not just the display. So if you turn it off, you can no longer use it to navigate the app.



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archer9234 on 02 January 2016
Normchacho said:
Ultrashroomz said:

Go to the home menu and into control settings, it's right there.



 


Let me explain my conundrum. I use my Wii U to watch Netflix quite a bit, and it's a pain to have the screen playing whatever I'm watching the whole time. 

So naturally the solution would be to turn it off. Unfortunately, you can only turn off the entire gamepad, not just the display. So if you turn it off, you can no longer use it to navigate the app.

The other controllers don't work in Netflix?





Normchacho on 02 January 2016
archer9234 said:
Normchacho said:

 


Let me explain my conundrum. I use my Wii U to watch Netflix quite a bit, and it's a pain to have the screen playing whatever I'm watching the whole time. 

So naturally the solution would be to turn it off. Unfortunately, you can only turn off the entire gamepad, not just the display. So if you turn it off, you can no longer use it to navigate the app.

The other controllers don't work in Netflix?

 

They probably do, I currently only use the gamepad and GameCube controllers for games though and it's a pretty convoluted mess to have to swap controllers and turn off the gamepad just to use Netflix.



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