Where’s your Nintendo Wii U? If you are wondering, it may already be too late.
While everyone is (or almost) waiting to see Nintendo Switch 2 land, many nostalgic gamers are also turning to their old Nintendo Wii U for reminiscences. And to the amazement of many, it turns out to be completely useless. For what ?
Your Nintendo Wii U doesn’t like solitude
As reported by the website spitone thread further the NeoGAF forum is currently much discussed. As user Wax explains, leaving the console unused for a long period of time can lead to its complete corruption. Persistent errors in the storage system then render it completely unusable and even seem impossible to repair. More precisely, they act an issue related to NAND memory corruption, irreparable if no backup was made prior to the corruption. So the sad observation is this: as soon as the console is left unused X times, it displays error code 160-0103, like a last breath before death.
Another thread, on Reddit This time the same error indicated:
My Wii U started throwing the dreaded error codes 160-0103 and 160-2155. I narrowed the issue down to corrupted internal storage as I can download and run games on the external storage with no issues, but when I try to download updates to the internal storage the download freezes and won’t finish.
I also currently have the Smash Bros game data stuck in the Download Manager section, but when I try to launch the Download Manager app I immediately get a black screen crash (160 -2155). This means I can’t re-download the game data to the external drive.
Is there any other way to fix this other than sending it to Nintendo?
All consoles in question?
However, as one user explains, this could only be related to a specific batch of Nintendo Wii U consoles. See his message instead:
This is a known issue and is caused by a faulty batch of 32GB (Samsung) eMMC chips that some early Wii U models used (some reports of this happening with the 8GB version are also known, but this seems to be much more common on the 32GB model). They can be damaged randomly during a read/write cycle and even more so as the chips age. It was probably because the chip had not been used for a long time.
Reading all of their reviews, many current owners are concerned about the possible damage to the handheld console. That is all the more alarming official communication from Nintendo on this topic does not seem to solve the problem for the majority of users. Is the Nintendo Wii U doomed to die slowly?
