So, I have had 4 hardlocks total since I bought the WiiU at midnight. I have put some serious hours into Assassins Creed 3 and my wife has put some serious hours into Mario U. Not to mention ZombiU and Scribblenauts.
Tonight I bought Darksiders 2 for download to the system memory (25 gigs free) and after FIVE HOURS of downloading and only reaching 52% I decided to play some Mario to pass the time and during the loading of the game the system hardlocked. After 5 minutes of attempting to cold boot the system normally I had no choice but to pull the plug. As Nintendos website suggests I waited more than 90 seconds, and connected back up.
Then this happened:
So following the instructions, I removed the remaining Darksiders 2 download data and started the download over... again. This time at 1% I decided to play some Mario U. The system hardlocked immediately and shut down.
Now my system does not even start. I get a flashing blue light for less than a second and then a red light. The Gamepad no longer 'see's the console as the power button no longer triggers the game console.
My WiiU is bricked.
Tomorrow morning I am going to call Nintendo customer service. However I already know the drill. Box it up, ship it out.
What are the odds that my save files will be safe?