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Nintendo Sneaks Out Wii U, 3DS Firmware Updates

Doesn’t appear to be much more than stability tweaks, not new features.

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IWATA.

With a Nintendo Direct scheduled for tomorrow morning (Friday), Nintendo has pushed out a firmware update for both Wii U and 3DS ahead of whatever announcements are coming.

Wii U’s update brings the hardware to version 2.1.0 and addresses the following, according to Nintendo:

“Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.”

It’s a similar vagueness on 3DS, which moves to version 4.5.0-10U:

“Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.”

Based on user reports so far, not much has changed, but maybe we’ll learn more tomorrow?

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Edited By Zaxex

Patrick's gonna be bummed when he comes in to work today and finds out that it's only mid-week.

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Sweet, sounds like the Wii U might lock up less....? Although to be fair I only had one lock up thus far.

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I hope "system stability" means I'll no longer have to yank the power cord out of my WiiU because it locked up.

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Hopefully this fixes some of the lockup issues. Tired of having to yank the power cord every time the thing locks up.

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Nintendo sneaked up and stabbed us in the face with firmware updates.

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@Fawkes said:

Friday?

Well, it is Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) Friday.

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If nothing else, the Wii U Gamepad turns itself off when I'm in Wii mode now, so I don't have to do it manually. It wasn't doing that yesterday, so I'm guessing that was in this latest update.

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They better address the slow loading times...or I'm not interested!

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I'm hoping they sort out this Wii U freezing mess before I get one, or in other words, when there's games worth a damn available for it.

I'm looking at you Pikmin 3. I expect glorious GameCube era quirk.

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Nintendo and Sony are backwards in that they always release patches which remove features. Given enough time you will eventually upgrade to a nice looking box on your table.

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@Igottadeuce said:

Nintendo and Sony are backwards in that they always release patches which remove features. Given enough time you will eventually upgrade to a nice looking box on your table.

This is funny to read because on Windows, the way they handle patches is just as backwards. And I'm never sure why people say the XBox 360 patches are fast where if you don't stay on top of them you end up in "patch hell" downloading a thing to download the patch which reboots and installs the patch so it can say "Oh, this needs a patch".

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Proofread guy

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Edited By optimusprime223

Dam update hasn't resolved my issue with my Wii U! still cannot do anything cause it wont load the OS! totally out of ideas and there don't appear to be any kind of hardware reset or anything...

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was a nice update for me at least, my menu loads are quite a bit better now

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またバナナか…

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I had to share this, I saw it on gaf and I'm not sure where it came from.

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I don't even get how the load times can be this bad on the Wii U. It has more RAM than any console ever (that it doesn't have to share with the OS) and the disc drive is supposedly thrice as fast as the PS3's atrocious 2x Blu-Ray drive.

The RAM is supposedly slower than the 360 and PS3 though, so that might be why.
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The Nintendo guys seem to really like to stare at fruit.

There's also the end of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30sKQ5ghi-Y that video. Dude is in deep thought with that orange at about 14 minutes in.