Is your Wii U dying of loneliness?
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#69KNC)
Wii U system on display at the Nintendo Store in NYC. Note the melting joystick - I wonder if it still works... | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge
Thinking of dusting off your Wii U real quick before the eShop goes down forever so you can nab a digital copy of Wii Party U while you still can? Well, hopefully, your Wii U is of sound health. Wii U owners on forums and Reddit are finding that their systems aren't working anymore, with errors many owners suspect are linked to leaving them sitting unused for a long period, as Exputer reports.
The issue seems to have come to light based on an account of NeoGAF forums member cireza, whose friend booted up a Wii U system after a long while and got error code 160-0103 on the Game Pad screen, which points to an issue with the on-board memory. Some Twitter users are also reporting the issue. And a similar error 160-2155 was also reported by...