New Wii U update may take an hour

Hmm what will this mean for the people who have the 8 gb system?

Whats with all the Updates.... How can Nintendo mess up this bad. Nintendo is so far behind the times...

I guess that "U" stands for update. I now don thee the Wii FU. (Frequent Updater)

Here's Mega 64 enjoying the Wii U! :

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/5tiyk9/mega64-the-update-of-a-lifetime

since they are making so few systems to force the people to buy now before they think about it. i hope they take the time and go ahead install the update theirselvs

I wonder whether they're going to fix the eShop at any point soon...

... the error code I'm getting (107-3003) doesn't appear to have an entry on the Nintendo.com error code lookup system, either. God knows what the problem is.

[sigh]

Here comes the barrage of moaning. Seriously, it is getting boring now. "oh no, now I have to wait around, blah blah blah", get over yourselves. Do something productive with you lives whilst it's being carried out, come back, then play. The overreactions to these stories are really quite pathetic.

Nintendo should release one update every 6 months minimum not every few days lol.If Nintendo releases firmware updates too early all the time people are going to think wii u is not worth buying.

I can think of a lot of other things that take an hour. Don't know why you thought it was necessary to write an article about it. I am sure those who download the update will find out when they download it.

lol Nintendo has second update for their new system already. didnt Nintendo update there wii u few days ago with another update.Nintendo released there wii u too early in rush for christmas sales.looks like l will not be getting a wii u anytime soon.

You know, the 8th gen ain't lookin' real hot right about now.

Yay! "Other minor adjustments"! Just what I wanted! :P

Just to make this clear, if you plan on getting a Wii U during the holidays, you will now have to wait about 3 hours before you can play it, since each update they release takes an hour to download and install. According to my internet speed tests, my internet speeds are faster than 96% of America. I pay a lot for it, and it is blazing fast. I'm talking about downloading a 4 GB movie in a few minutes fast, and it STILL took the first update over an hour to download on my Wii U.

Prepare yourselves. If you guys and gals think the PS3 download speeds are bad, you better get ready for something truly, unbearably long. Not only that, but just switching between menu's on the Wii U takes about 30 seconds to load everytime you click something. Just getting to the settings to change something, and coming back to the main menu takes over 2 minutes worth of loading.

I literally have 20 year old PC's that run faster than the Wii U.

An hour?? That's nothing compared to World of Tanks!!!!!!!

Is this update 2.1.0? That's where my system is right now on versions...

no slow downloads on my end ;]

Mandatory updates are a pain, but they're certainly not exclusive to Nintendo

It seems that the Wii U update may have reduced the loading time of the system as the most noticeable improvement.

Sounds like Nintendo delivered a half-assed product

Nintendo seriously needs to find a way to make the updates only contain a patch to fix the areas that need to be worked on. This "download the entire OS" over and over just isn't gonna fly.

And I thought the first few Wii updates were horribly slow.

Well, I'm happy with the Wii U even with the updates.  I like the "social gaming" type experiments nintendo is making with the miiverse, etc.  Plus I never had a wii.

When the PS3 came out, updates weren't slow. That was half a decade ago.

So much fanboy hate already and we only have Wii U. I can't imagine the non-sense that will happen when PS4 vs. Xbox 720 starts and then fanboy rage will go out of control. 12 more months of Nintendo hate and then 6-7 years of fanboy wars...only to see COD end up occupying top 9 out of 10 best selling games on Xbox 720. It's funny some people think the day they open PS4/Xbox 720 they'll be playing games that look like the Enix demo. Wishful thinking. It'll be Crysis 3 in real HD. 

I just did the update in question took me 29 minutes...not anywhere near an hour...I suggest getting better broadband...

if they just sell thier console with normal pro controller for a a lower price i'd buy one! =/

I jush wish Iwata would replace Reggie or at least demote him. He's a windbag and has poor promotional skills. I wanted to punch him when he zombified his face at E3. 

OMG, I don't have an hour in my day in which I can stop playing Wii U games in order to update the system!!! What ever shall I do!?

I don't own the system yet but if I did, I'd sure plug it to an UPS, like I do with the computer. Seems kinda risky not to do so.

No wonder Nintendo took so long to make a system up to the current console standards. Not even up to the standard in fact. They obviously have no idea what the hell they are doing.

They must be going back to Windows 7.......

an hour to download means nothing..give people a filesize if they are talking about downloading..I wonder how long it takes to install 

I rather have a long update and have the system fixed than for it not to be fixed. There are plenty of things to do for one hour.