Video taking off 7.8x its usual first day

DJ Slope points to Hynix chips in Wii U failures

His fast-starting Short challenges the unplugged-console theory, while owners compare the hardware inside their machines.

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Slope's Game Room Story of October 23, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 45,390 views a day, 7.8 times a normal first day on this channel (5,820).

Is Your Wii U A Ticking Time Bomb?

Holding a Wii U GamePad, DJ Slope introduces an unsettling idea for anyone with a console packed away: could leaving it unplugged destroy its memory? His answer is that the problem lies elsewhere, in the chips Nintendo put inside.

"Is Your Wii U A Ticking Time Bomb?" has drawn around 27,000 views before its first full day. The comments have already far exceeded the usual first-day response to a Slope's Game Room Short, with owners discussing stored consoles, working launch models and ways to identify their memory chips.

Daniel Ibbertson, known as DJ Slope, builds the explanation around error code 160-0103. He recalls players encountering it when returning to their consoles before the Wii U eShop closed, then turns to an investigation highlighted by TechPowerUp and the homebrew community.

His central distinction is between time spent unplugged and a manufacturing problem. Nintendo used memory from Samsung, Toshiba and Hynix; Slope identifies flawed Hynix chips, particularly in early Deluxe models, as the culprit rather than simple neglect. That makes this less a warning about forgetting an old console than an account of different components hiding inside apparently identical machines.

For a channel devoted to preserving gaming history, it is a practical wrinkle in the nostalgia. Slope closes with a sarcastic answer to where players might find former Wii U exclusives: footage of their Switch ports.

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What viewers say

Got mine second hand, it's been sitting in a box unused for nearly a decade, but maybe it's time to see what mess I'm in for.
@Chalky.See it on YouTube
If you have a modded Wii U, you can look up which chip you have with WiiUident. I fortunately have one with a Samsung chip, which honestly was a big relief to find out.
@Irgendjemand_211See it on YouTube
The Wii U is worth it for modding and exclusives that haven't been ported elsewhere
@vincenzomottola7778See it on YouTube

1 more comment

I have an early model Wii U but I think I lucked out on what chip it may have inside since I havent turned it on in years yet it still boots up and plays perfectly fine.
@KnifeToMeetYou_See it on YouTube

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The facts

Channel: Slope's Game Room
Subscribers: 215,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 915,651
Channel views, pace per day: 128,056 (on a normal day: 76,903)
Video published: October 22, 2026
Video views so far: 26,783 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 45,390

The numbers

The Wii U Short is drawing views well ahead of the channel's usual early pace for Shorts. Its comment section is also unusually busy before the first full day is over.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,820

this video

45,390

subscribers

215,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

47,933,586

views per day

128,056