News - Americans get the Nintendo TVii service starting from today

[HEXUS]

All your cable, satellite and video-on-demand services accessed from the Wii U gamepad.

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[hesham1516]

What a missleading video, surely the pad needs to be hooked up to a power brick to do all that. The battery will die before a movie is even over

[directhex]

What a missleading video, surely the pad needs to be hooked up to a power brick to do all that. The battery will die before a movie is even over

2-4 hour lifetime on the gamepad.

[MrBozack]

Yes, the controller has very good battery life - but does require a good pre-charge. The screen is mega bright too. We get around five hours use before it warns us to attach to mains. The deluxe version comes with a controller cradle too. So you can use it like a teeny touch-screen in almost full HDTV. I'm interested to see what TVii will be like when it comes to Europe. The console's amazed me so far.

[Noli]

Yup - if user replaceable batteries for the pad ever get developed which extend battery life significantly (as with the DS), I'll be first in line... but it's not a big deal as it is if you remember to cradle it.