Metalmurphy
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Launch day is going to be chaos, if it took over 1 hours to update with minimal users imagine millions trying to update.
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First Wii U update is at least 1GB / CLEAN OUT YO FRIDGE
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A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
5000 US MEGABYTES
Pai Pai Master
Banned
This might be the dumbest thing a platform owner has done at launch.
yes it wasn't done on time and they needed to make launch? thus, you patch it. Imagine if nintendo delayed it past this launch into next year? 3rd parties, investors etc... would have shit a brick
Visualante2
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Welcome to 2012.
SolarPowered
Member
Right.
It's weird that they waited until release rather than having it in there from the get go. A major release should not be getting an update this significant. Many people are going to be hammering their network.
It wasnt ready until this week.
This hardware release had to be a pre-Black Friday rush priority. A multi-GB release day update is just asking for trouble.
I have no idea how the servers are going to stay up if demand is there.
abstract alien
Member
Take that shit to someone's house or something. You don't need a tv, just a power source. I would do it.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Hey man, you'll never use those 3GB anyway. Probably. Maybe.
They probably have a ton of dummy files so the OS can function and the Day one patch is replacing those with the real things.
Quoting this because people are probably going to ignore it
Amazingly, not until after you install this firmware update.
Nintendo reaaaaaaaaaally should have pushed this to be on the game discs for the launch.
No one I know has decent internet, unfortunately. My parents house is prone to frequent drop-outs so like hell am I going to attempt it there. I would be there all month.
It disables while updating.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Hey if you get to keep your space then that's good. But the idea of a 5GB update on LAUNCH day is still beyond ridiculous. Shit is going to be hammered.
Well its not like you can download anything until you update the firmware so its pretty much impossible to not have the space to do so.
Best Xmas gift ever:
Parents: Hey Son why you not test your new Console now.
*Son plug in the new Console*
Son: What is that?
Parents: Looks like an update, will not take long my Son
Son: Okay.
*2 hours later*
Parents: U need to go to bed. Sorry, but you can play tomorrow. It will download the rest over the night
*blackout at xmas Night*
Son: My console is broken *cry*
Parents: Hey Son why you not test your new Console now.
*Son plug in the new Console*
Son: What is that?
Parents: Looks like an update, will not take long my Son
Son: Okay.
*2 hours later*
Parents: U need to go to bed. Sorry, but you can play tomorrow. It will download the rest over the night
*blackout at xmas Night*
Son: My console is broken *cry*
papersleeves
Member
FIVE MILLIONS TWO HUNDREDS AND FOURTY TWO THOUSANDS EIGHT HUNDREDS AND EIGHTY AMERICAN KILOBYTES
faulty_fork
Member
WTF are Nintendo doing? The Xbox 360 has a ton more features and its OS can't be much bigger than 100 MB.
Wii U OS uses 1GB of RAM. 360's under 32MB. Also, at the very least we know Wii U's webbrowser is much more complete than 360's.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
How do they know the size? A friend was watching the stream of the guy who downloaded it, he said it was averaging 300K/sec for an hour and five minutes. Which works out to around 1.15GB. A 5GB update being downloaded in that amount of time woulda had him downloading it at like a meg a second, and the guy had graphs and shit showing his up/down speed while he was doing it. And they did not show a meg a second.
So uh
So uh
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