Throw them at your younger sibling, you won’t need them anymore. Installation is simple, grab your Wii Remote and take out those cruddy AA batteries. So far there’s only black ones available so consider your purchase before you buy one of these. The Wii Remote Control Quick Charge Set comes with a charging cradle, Wii Remote battery pack, Wii Remote condom jacket, Wii Remote Strap and even a Nintendo 3DS charger to power it all. Wii Remote Control Quick Charge Set ~$55AUĬan you believe it has taken Nintendo 7 years to release an official Wii Remote charging solution? Sure there has been many others from third parties but Nintendo saw fit to wait until they release their next console to even bother. Installing the battery was a breeze, included in the little box with the battery was a handy tiny little screwdriver and the other battery just is easily pull out and the new one slides snugly in. Since we’ve just got the battery, we haven’t been able to test it for an extreme amount of time yet, but at double the size it is definitely going to last longer than 3 hours. Now Nintendo is usually one err on the side of caution when stating the battery life of things but the Wii U GamePad battery is pretty terrible. It’s capacity is increased to 2550mAh, up from a mere 1500mAh. However what it does is take the Wii U GamePad’s battery life from around 3 to 5 hours to a massive 5 to 8 hours. The Wii U GamePad is beautiful in its simplicity, it’s only a battery after all. Let’s take a look, there’s also a video at the bottom with more. Both of these items were released in Japan last week and we’ve imported them over here to Australia to check them out, trying to play Pikmin 3 attached the wall just wasn’t getting any more fun either. A couple of months ago, Nintendo announced a slew of new accessories for the Wii U and even some for the Wii.Īmong those were an official higher capacity battery for the Wii U GamePad and a Wii Remote Control Quick Charge set.