Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced during the latest Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation that a Wii U system update is incoming to help fix the slow OS. Iwata said that the update should come before January 1st. No other details were provided about the system update.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!
Please come soon! My system hangs a lot.
well its not posted here but the update is coming tomorrow with nintendo tvii
For realz?
Please, fix the “if the light’s out during an update, the system bricks” problem too.
Oh my gosh, dude. That is not a fixable problem, lol.
This is a problem for all technology, not just the Wii U. So we need a young technological person to develop something for this. It’d be like the post-it note of this generation.
All you would need is a powerbrick that charges up and reserves energy and springs to action when the mains are disconnected.
Yup. My brother uses one of these for his gaming PC setup.
I’ve been thinking about getting a powerbrick sometime this weekend. The thought of me having to call my Wii U into Nintendo to get it fixed and being without it for weeks has me on end.
Seriously? Your borther has one of those ? I just made that up! :D . I need to by one of these so I can make my portable wiiu gaming back back.
It’s called a UPS: Uninterrupted Power Supply. they last for like 2 hours or so. mostly meant for people who work on computers and would lose a lot fo work in the event of a power outage.
I have one of those. Lasts only 30 minutes for my game consoles, but that’s more than enough time to cancel an update.
Its called a upc
(Universal power supply) companys haved used them for servers for 30 years
People have a ups for their game systems? Geez…overkill much? That is usually only used for servers.
Yeah, not overkill.
Definitely not when the state of your console and everything that you spend money towards on it is at stake when merely downloading an update. .-.
And it is called an APC battery backup unit, as Christian pointed out.
It’s called an APC battery backup unit for your entertainment center… it’s about $60 at office depot or other office supply places. It keeps your console tv and whatever else is plugged into the battery backup part alive for about 4 hours if the power goes out. My solution, but doesn’t have to be yours.
This doesn’t happen to Windows. So what they need would be a restore-defaults feature in case things would go bananas. But that would probably take up even more of the OS’s filespace.
Not true. Most systems (including the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC) have an emergency back up which it will boot into next time. It then immediately searches for an update or restores the previous system software.
Here’s an idea. DONT TURN OFF THE SYSTEM WHEN ITS UPDATING.
Thats how tech work, you all those times on a console, or PC, where its said “BLAH BLAH BLAH, do NOT turn off the system”? This is why!
That is totally not what happens on the PC and you know it. Unless your PC sucks that bad.
If your registers or BIOS is updating or whatever, and you power it off, then yeah, in THAT case, it would be bad.
For any other update, you can easily turn the PC on and off and it will be as if the system never tried updating itself. Sometimes you might have to turn the PC off; the damn thing could freeze when you’re updating.
And dude, control your temper.
No, when you INSTALL something, it has a risk of bricking, that ALWAYS happens.
BIOS = firmwares… i mean, same scenario. can happen.
Here’s an idea . Why don’t Nintendo just write WARNING DO NOT turn your system off whilst it’s updating. :)
THEY DO!
I didn’t see it xD ! When I was setting mine up , my lil bro tripped over the wire and nearly pulled it out LOL. It was hanging on by a milimetre.
Was a true ”NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” moment .
When something installs, it has a chance to brick i you turn it off. Its not just downloading.
Blackouts are very rare where I live, but it happened last week.
Now imagine if I was updating a Wii U at that time. Yeah, shit can happen.
Well thats just bad luck really :/ not Nintendo fault though.
Pay that electric bill sir.
The way to fix this problem from happening is a 2 place writing system. Two spots, one for the OS, the other for the backup. When the system starts updating it backups the consoles OS. When that is done, it overwrites the original. Then when that has completed it deletes the backup file.
This can only be broken if you don’t have or somehow overwrite a line of code that says in case of OS failure check system backup.
if at anytime during the process above the is broken the system should check the backup. If the new OS can’t boot, it checks the backup.
why this wasn’t implemented idk. But hopefully it can be. And when it does get implemented (if it can) there will be system bricks because that update isn’t yet applied, until it is.
It would take up much more filespace. Probably why it hasn’t been implemented.
It would only take that file space during updates though. People would be warned if they have insufficient space about the risk of bricking or they would have the option to make space. Easy.
Cool beans.
So, I’m really excited about this. Sort of. I purchased my console launch day, but I’m not opening it until Christmas (I would flunk this semester if I didn’t wait). So, while it’s great that the OS is getting cleaned up and sped up, I sort of feel gypped because I may not get to experience it being slow and then feel the improvement.
I’d never be able to wait a month and a half(or more depending on where you live) to play the Wii U if I had it within reach no matter what! I salute your patience, friend.
You have the patience to wait that long yet feel gypped? Or, you can just not do the update play, and then do it, which would make no sense. I bought a new iphone and the software was new already for it, that’s a good thing, we got the kinks out kid, enjoy.
I really haven’t noticed a slow OS at all. Then again my pc is 5 years old.
lol
I just hope they make an update that let us have Miiverse launched in background all the time, i dont like to launch it and launch it and launch it all the day.
The OS is a little slow. But sometimes works much faster than others. The faster the better , But it’s not a problem to me having to wait 11-17 seconds every now and again…
Wiiu gettin a lot of unfair criticism. All my multiplats I bought look and run great , Sonic racing and Trine 2 the pick of the bunch in terms of comparing to ps3 and 360.
But blops looks way better on wiiu than ps3 , that’s something.
AC3 runs nice , Batman runs really nice with the odd slowdown. It drops to about 5 FPS for about 1 second every half an hour or so. People were over exagerating. It’s an excellent port and it has AWESOME anti aliasing.
The wiiu will blossom into a Beast. Best console I’ve ever owned. The remote play feature is one to not be underestimated. For me , it’s fully revoloutionary.
A “little slow”? Don’t be too forgiving, it is slow…
On the topic of ports, AC3 looks quite amazing. Arkham City on the other hand, had odd blocky textures (not too noticeable) and low framerate at some key moments.
Batman looks exactly the same as it does on 360 , My little bro has it on his 360. The wiiu version looks noticeably Sharper , due to much better AA. No blocky textures on my version.
The framerate is about 30-45FPS for 90% of the game. Every now and again you run into a bit of choppyness. Just codeing and rushed porting issues. But for the large , the game runs just as smooth as it does on ps3 and 360 on wiiu.
Another thing to note is . When playing on the Gamepad with remote play , The performance of everything , Gameplay and cut scenes is dramatically better. Even the touch screen menus operate noticeably smoother.
If I had to review batman on wiiu , I would say it runs WELL with the odd (irrelivant) drop every now and again. Which doesn’t affect anything at all.
I know; I saw those points during an Arkham Asylum comparison video, but it highlighted those specific points as if the entire game was ruined by them being there, or as if those specific points somehow made the rest of the game look like crap.
I hate when people blow a few momentary flaws waaaaay out of proportion.
And a patch note for accessing the Home Menu during an online multiplayer game would be great too…
yes, annoying to have to keep backing out to main game menu or having to load campaign from multiplayer in blops just to get to the home menu.
Awwwwwwwww yeah! Wii U is magnificent, im loving it, its really cool when i play Sonic & all stars with my bro, he plays on tv and i play on gamepad, its amazing.
I hope Nintendo will mind the file size, ’cause otherwise the 8GB edition will be very filled with updates by the end of the next year >_>’
I doubt that’ll happen. Most updates are in double or triple digit MB, so it’s not that large.
On top of this, a lot of data will be deleted after the install. The OS data has barely increased in size in the last update.
Good guy Iwata.
Says he’ll fix slow OS.
One month later, does it.
YES….. THANK YOU!!!
Can we start a petition to get them to add a suggestion forum ont miiverse. They had something on the wii where you got to give input. But this one would be perfect because they could see trrends. Find out if there are issues and maybe start a poll to see what game franchise we would love to see.
That’s a good idea!
everybody in miiverse should make a post of that. Nintendo would possibly take notice since all of the participants in miiverse are chanting the same thing
Please add the notification popups on tv and home button can be pressed anytime even while online almost like the 360 this is 2012
^ This.
I want those little messages to appear like “Friend is now online” “Friend wants you to play something” we really need that.
in the game Your Shape it does have a thing on tv screen that says when friend is online and who, at the same time home button lights up. its up to game developers to impliment that in their games.
sigh… developers.
Hell just make it blink different colors. Blue is a friend is now online, green is a friend wants to play/video call, orange is a friend request.
@JBlaze..That’s a great suggestion.
Yoshi appproves this update.
This is nice to know they are listening and working on patches already. I’m amazed with my wii u, my ps3 and 360 haven’t been turned on since Nov 18.
F*ck yes.
This is the kinda news I like to hear! Awesome!
Somebody else think the Wii U came out with a year of been really finished? at least software wise.
About time, it’s so damn slow. Next gen my butt
you should probably remove the penis off of it.
classic
hahahahahahahahahahahaha_____________________________dead.
your butt is next gen!? :O
This is how U will poop next.
I don’t think it’s that bad, but cool.
Just some news NSMB 2 is getting its last dlc tomorrow. Audrey was talking about it on Ign, there is a pack thay exceeds the 5 star range and is called the impossible pack.
oh my god, that is AWESOME! i need to get NSMB2 now.
So, what does making the OS speed up do for the system, performance-wise? Does it help game devs when they make their games for the Wii U?
It improves loading times and overall speed across the board.
Can that translate into the possibility of more FPS, or something?
How about some new games?!
THANK THE VIDEOGAME GODS!!!!
They need to fix the freezing issues. At least make it so the power button still works when it freezes. Having to unplug it from the wall makes me worry its gonna ruin the HDD or brick the system.
I’ve found that the freezing issues stopped after the latest update. If they continue to be regular, it may be a hardware issue.
The freezing issue was fixed in that update awhile ago. If your Wii U froze then its your system being faulty.
Don’t listen to them. Freezing is normal and happens with every system. Only worry if it happens as often as it used to before the update.
The number if freezes has certainly lessened after the last update but it will still freeze every now and then. The freezing wouldn’t be such an issue if you didn’t have to unplug it to restart it.
Yes love the improvements Nintendo is doing.
That’s awesome, if there’s ever an update to integrate the Wii Mode into the Wii U so you don’t have to boot it separately and integrating the Wii Shop Channel into the eShop, i’ll have no complaints.
Patience I told you Nintendo faithful. Updates are coming. Now if WB can send an update for the three times that Batman Arkham city sows down, again it’s not the Wii U’s fault but the developers rushing a great port.
* slows down * WB patch please.
Awesome. I love Wii U but it is so slow right now. At least they are going to fix it soon.
They need to fix the freezing issues. There have been no official patch or update from Nintendo to address the freezing issue…..Most important is the stability of the Wii U than to make it faster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a patch awhile ago. Since then Wii U’s should not be freezing anymore. If so its incredibly rare and is a faulty system. Mine hasnt frozen since the update.
This is great news! I love this new eager-to-please Nintendo.
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I dont see the problem. My wii u loads way faster than my 360 and ps3.
First world problems………
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This seems to work but needs more testing port 9103 seems to be causing the slow downs on the system including menus and other issues, and the fix is quite simple.
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