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Home News Wii U Day One Patch Download Is A Whopping 5GB

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Wii U Day One Patch Download Is A Whopping 5GB

Posted on Saturday, November 17 @ 22:01:10 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Those of you looking to pick up a Wii U, throw it in your media center, and begin enjoying the next generation are in for a rude awakening.

Upon booting up the Wii U a mandatory firmware update needs to be downloaded which weighs in at an absurd 5GB. Inherently, you'll spend your first hour or two downloading and applying the update before you can dive in and begin enjoying your big purchase.

Forums are flooded with people patiently waiting for the download to complete. Those with slower bandwidth speeds are really in a sore spot with the update taking an entire night.

If you plan to get a Wii U today, make sure you have some popcorn ready.
Tags:   Wii U, Nintendo


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  • sg4real
    sg4real
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 17th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
    Wow, that sucks when you buy a new console you just wanna hook it up and play!
    Also, its going to eat up the hard drive that's already pretty small...
    0 4
  • usaglory
    usaglory
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 1:08 am
    This is a perfect example why I never buy a console at launch. The next batch of consoles they produce will most likely have the firmware pre-installed but with the advertised 8GB/32GB intact.
    0 1
  • BigTruckSeries
    BigTruckSeries
    Joined: May 2006
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
    I still have NO IDEA what the hell a Wii U actually is. I played with the controller in Gamestop and I just can't figure it out. this thing has failure written all over it.
    1 0
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Nov 17th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
    Wii U! Your parents help you hook it up, but they're at the mercy of the day one patch!
    0 4
  • damo_rox619
    damo_rox619
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 12:04 am
    You know what the worst part of this is? People are going to be opening up their Wii U's on christmas day, and the first thing they are going to do is download a huge update instead of playing their new games. Do Nintendo realise they are ruining christmas morining for kids all over the world (....and me)?
    0 3
  • usaglory
    usaglory
    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 1:02 am
    Must be a console for "hardcore" gamers 'cause user-friendly it ain't.
    0 5
  • wildmario
    wildmario
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 8:11 am
    Well now people cannot complain about that since it's perfect for hardcore
    0 0
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 9:31 am
    If you're a kid with good parents, or a good parent, you have the sense to open the console up and patch the thing before Christmas morning. Otherwise you get what you deserve.
    0 2
  • damo_rox619
    damo_rox619
    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
    christmas is saved!
    0 0
  • slowdiver
    slowdiver
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
    Always assuming of course that the Wii U servers don't crash from all the people downloading at once, and that the skeleton staff assigned to maintaining them (it is Christmas day, so it will be manned by as few people as possible) can get everything working again. Ho Ho Ho indeed.
    0 0
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 12:51 am
    I'm downloading this darn update right now. It seriously has made the whole unboxing and setup less enjoyable...
    0 2
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 4:45 am
    huh, day one and they already Wii on U...
    0 9
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 8:57 am
    Haha! I chuckled. ;)
    0 1
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 5:30 am
    Are the servers are least fast so people with high speeds can download at max speeds or is it gay capped at only 1 MB/s?
    0 1
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
    Gay Capped at 1 Mega Boner per Second.
    0 0
  • whytenoiz
    whytenoiz
    Joined: Feb 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 5:51 am
    Day one of being on the waiting list post-launch commences.....at least I got on the waiting list the morning it became available...
    0 1
  • uptown710
    uptown710
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 6:54 am
    Wii U : too complicated for soccer moms and too frustrating for hardcore players.

    What demographic is this aimed at exactly?
    0 2
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 7:23 am
    the one that makes Forest Gump look like an intellectual?
    0 4
  • uptown710
    uptown710
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 9:38 am
    If that's what audience they are seeking, Nintendo will be making more money than Apple then.
    0 1
  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 7:27 am
    Wow that suck nothing was compared to unwrapping my crystal Xbox and playing fable on christmas
    0 1
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 7:33 am
    Wow, 5GB in under two hours, that's some serious speed, here I was thinking 400kb/s was like the biggest thing ever, boy are people over here gonna be pissed.
    0 1
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
    Your internets are the slow.
    0 0
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 9:04 am
    Can't you just not hook it up to the internet and get your excitement out playing offline until you go to bed and download it overnight?
    0 1
  • uptown710
    uptown710
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 9:35 am
    I don't know many systems that let you play while a firmware update is in motion.
    0 0
  • uptown710
    uptown710
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 9:37 am
    Oh wait, I misunderstood! Who knows what bug fixes this update contains though...
    0 0
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
    No bug fixes IIRC. Just enables a lot of features.
    0 0
  • Kakulukia
    Kakulukia
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 10:09 am
    Let me get this straight. Let's say someone buys an 8GB system. Basic OS install takes up 4 GB (from what I've read), and you have to download a 5GB patch on top of that?

    Do you SEE the problem here, Nintendo? A first-grader would.
    0 2
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 10:36 am
    That was my question....how does that work?
    0 0
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy
    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
    I'm assuming the 5GB replaces the original OS files. Otherwise Nintendo is going to have a whole lot of angry customers.
    0 0
  • hewhowasonceme
    hewhowasonceme
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
    5GB isn't that bad, it's like an hour tops. Then again I'm not buying it.
    0 0
  • cereal13killer
    cereal13killer
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Nov 18th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
    Nintendo is taking the Battlefield 3 approach to game/console development.
    0 1

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