Nov 19, 2012 11:52 PM
Wii U bricked?
Just got my Wii U set up today.
After trying repeatedly to start the system update and getting that error everyone was getting because the servers were overloaded, it finally started. I left it alone for a couple of hours.
When I came back, it said the update had completed and I needed to restart my system. When I did so, it booted up fine once. I got to the point where I could pick the account to log in as, and I decided to edit my Mii. For some reason the system was taking forever navigating to that part, and then the pad went black and gave me an error message (which I foolishly didn't write down.)
After that, it was hard locked. I had to pull the plug from the main console. After trying to restart it, I see the "Wii U" logo appear on the pad and on my TV, with some sounds/music for maybe 20 seconds or so, then it fades out, and...nothing. It just sits there. At that point the console is hard locked; you can't turn it off by holding down the power or anything. I have to pull the power cord again to turn it off.
I tried unplugging everything and waiting five minutes and plugging it into a regular wall outlet that's worked fine, and still no dice.
My theory is that something went wrong when downloading the massive day one update and despite saying it completed the update successfully, it actually did not complete it successfully and screwed up.
Any ideas? Is this yet another day one bricked Wii U? Pretty disappointing if it is. 
