I know this is a very common issue among wii u users today, that at some random point while playing a game, the wii u freezes and produces a sound like an auto-tuned vuvuzuela with a bee stuck on the other end. I have turned the language setting in miiverse to english only, and that reduced the amount of freezes, but they are still present. It's happened in more than one game too. Now, I've been reading this issue up on other forums and people have said that the only way they could turn off the wii u after that was by unplugging it, but I was able to do it by simply holding down the power button on the console for 5 seconds. Do I have a different issue than everyone else? I'm worried that this might be doing permanent damage to the wii u, all of these frequent freezes. If they are, then someone better file a lawsuit against Nintendo for selling us broken consoles and make them fix them for free! Kinda like what happened with Nvidia a couple years back when they were sued for producing faulty graphics chips for laptops resulting in the laptop to cease to function.
To sum this up, is there ANYTHING at all that I can do to stop these freezes other than what I have already attempted, or do we just have to wait it out for nintendo to get their act together and actually fix it? An answer is greatly appreciated. I don't want my gameplay to be interrupted by this anymore.