This guy... not Mario, but this battery, Can't see from the pic but it's probably a 2032 cell, can get an 8 pack of them for about 1.50 worth trying before investing $93

Is it always $93 to send in a Wii U?

If it is then fuck that, I'll just get the damn special screwdriver to open it and replace the fan myself. This is the sort of shit that makes me hate consoles until I cool off and immediately revert back to loving them.

So I haven't played my Wii U in about over a month and I decided to finish a game today and it's not turning on, the red light just keeps blinking red, i unplugged it and it didn't work.

Of course this happened to me a week before E3.

Can anyone help me please?

It was $100 but the tech support girl I was talking too was really cool and got me a discount, it would of been even cheaper then $93 but I asked for the faster shipping which costs $17 and will take me 1 week to get back to me vs $10 shipping and 2-3 weeks.

It's a shame they don't open up a couple repair centers in the states/europe etc to make shipping cheaper for the consumer... it seems rather unreasonable to punish the owner of the console for built-in-faults. In fact, I feel like I remember them having repair centers here at one time.

I'm not sure what the line is in regards to price for me, but since I'm 99% sure I know what the problem is and that it's a problem that would normally cost a few dollars to fix, I can't bring myself to ship it to Japan lol

So damn frustrating... I know there's warranty reasons for doing it but I miss the days when hardware shipped with simple screws and such so that you could repair it yourself. Virtually everything was designed with repair in mind at one time, and now everything is designed to make it impossible for the consumer to deal with it themselves.

I need to have a screwdriver to unscrew that, do you know what kinda screwdriver can do it?

Looks like a small Phillips head screwdriver would be your best bet.

Thinking the exact same thing, absolutely pathetic. Zomg you nasty mods banning that poor man he was going to help too, because ya know.... everyone on the internet was born yesterday.

@OP sorry to hear about that, no exp with damaged Wii-U's but like others said go through the basics first as with any hardware, disconnect everything from it SD/usb drives and try and power it up, try taking out the hdmi lead too and fire it up using the gamepad if you can, could be an issue with the video out port, worth checking at least.

It's a shame they don't open up a couple repair centers in the states/europe etc to make shipping cheaper for the consumer... it seems rather unreasonable to punish the owner of the console for built-in-faults. In fact, I feel like I remember them having repair centers here at one time.

I'm not sure what the line is in regards to price for me, but since I'm 99% sure I know what the problem is and that it's a problem that would normally cost a few dollars to fix, I can't bring myself to ship it to Japan lol

So damn frustrating... I know there's warranty reasons for doing it but I miss the days when hardware shipped with simple screws and such so that you could repair it yourself. Virtually everything was designed with repair in mind at one time, and now everything is designed to make it impossible for the consumer to deal with it themselves.

I'm terrible with this stuff but this?

https://www.google.ca/search?q=philips+standard+4-way+screwdriver&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqof7W3pnNAhVHw4MKHX-cAhYQ_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=635#imgrc=c5j0ue0rGG9zZM%3A