DrForester
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Play games and carry on. You don't have to do the update to play games.
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First Wii U update is at least 1GB / CLEAN OUT YO FRIDGE
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Play games and carry on. You don't have to do the update to play games.
piratepwnsninja
Member
Doing a speedtest has absolutely ZERO to do with his average download speed on a particular download.
elongation
Neo Member
I want to defend Nintendo but honestly, there's no defense of a 5 gig update. Ever.
If it is closer to 1 gig.. less bad, but still stupid as hell.
If it is closer to 1 gig.. less bad, but still stupid as hell.
Its all dependent on users downloading and quality of Nintendo servers.....the latter i dont have faith in.
No he had his data activity showing ... I don't know else to say this. His speed test meant nothing. The thing showed peaks of 300 something kbps when not doing the speed test.
It only prompts you for an update if you try to use a feature that requires it. So the scenario is flawed, given that the FIRST thing that the son is going to want to do is PLAY A FUCKING GAME.
Yes, folks, for those who forgot, this update does not prevent you whatsoever from doing the primary function you bought it for.
The overexaggeration of most of this astounds me. That's not to say that 5GB isn't a big deal, but let's be honest here: given the options of having lots of stock for launch, having minimal stock because they waited to pre-install this update, or having a less rigorously tested online experience, which would you have preferred?
Metalmurphy
Member
Not once did the update even go remotely near 35mbps. The max was about 500kB/s and that didn't happen very often.
I don't think this is right. It prompts you for ADDITIONAL updates after the first big one. That's what I saw in the stream.
Gouda Jouji
Member
DORITOS POPE HAS SPOKEN.
ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
CoffeeJanitor
Member
What a huge fuckup. The thing already has almost no memory...Wow.
Oh man, your probably right. It didn't make any sense to me why the Wii U would brick if its interrupted while downloading.
Baconsammy
Banned
Unless your intent was to buy your games off the E Shop and make use of the 5 dollar rebate that Premium customers get.
It gets deleted
I think its a real concern.
Also, whether its 1gb or 5gb, its pretty crazy - I don't recall any patch for a day 1 hardware anything like this. Shit, a 1gb patch on the ps3 would have taken a week...
It wouldn't surprise me if he's making an assumption based on something Iwata said during a recent Nintendo Direct about available space on the internal storage.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Glad to hear it doesn't chew up additional space. Bad that it's that big a download!
I'm just saying that on his speed, a 5 GB taking an hour would make more sense than 1 GB.
Either way, Nintendo really messed this up.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
OS memory =/= storage memory, as has been said many times in the thread already.
Darko
Member
Any basic users tried it yet?
Baconsammy
Banned
I hope it's just adding all the shit that was missing, and future system updates will be far more efficient. If every system update replaces the current OS then Nintendo should be smacked with a shovel.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
What???
DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
Ugh. I have horrendously slow Internet. 5 Gigs could take me upwards of 6 hours. I want to play my Wii U with all the features on launch day dammit! Gonna have to go to a friend's house to download this crap.
Are you sure. I thought the nd just said what the overall OS size was, not about any patch....
Visualante2
Member
You know I don't appreciate your tone.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Well his question was about people without wi-fi, in which case they're screwed anyways.
I would have preferred they prioritized better.
Again, I just saw it when he did the speedtest... I didn't look at that. Was busy watching football.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
No. Iwata said that is the total OS footprint. This update isn't the whole OS
Wait.. The Wii U doesn't have an Ethernet port?
piratepwnsninja
Member
That's not how internet works. Just because you're able to hit a certain speed doesn't mean the servers you are connecting to will allow you to download at that speed. If that were the case, my steam downloads would get done a lot faster.
No. The OS requires 4.2GB. That includes 512MB reserved space for Wii legacy mode and such. The actual OS itself is much smaller.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
If the server is only sending it to you at 1kb/s, then you're downloading at 1kb/s, nomatter how much bandwidth your connection has. Is this complicated? The guy said the download was averaging a speed FAR SLOWER than the maximum that would be allowed by 35 mb/s.
An average of 300 kbps is like 1 gig an hour. Nintendo is probably throttling download speeds so it doesn't blow up the servers.
nhlducks35
Member
Darko
Member
Nope... You have to buy a dongle...
Nope
-Pyromaniac-
Member
lol I love that moment when someone discovers something like this
White is usable space after the update I believe, the blue is space taken up by the OS and other stuff.
Thats an image showing the full OS size, not an update size....
Well, if you want to buy games off the eShop, you kinda need wifi, which is also needed for the update.
Explain one more time. I must be having a brain fart cause I really don't get what you just said. Requires but actual is much smaller?
Ninja Scooter
Member
Gary Whitta is about to go HAM.
WrenchNinja
Member
Of course theyre going to do that. All the companies do that. Nintendo already does that with the Wii, DSi and 3DS. Theyre just not ready with the Wii U.
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