The Wii U’s Colossally Large Day One Update Not Going Anywhere For Now

One of the most aggravating things about the Wii U is how, once one has been obtained and finally set up, you have to then immediately ensure a mandatory system update that is quite massive in size, and which also takes forever to download and install. And as noted in the past, if something goes wrong, there's a chance that new console might become unusable.

The colossally large and painfully inconvenient update was addressed by Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, in a recent interview with Gamasutra. Unfortunately, it's going to be here for a while. When addressing the need for the patch in the first place:

"Nintendo developers want to make sure that the very best product is available to consumers… That creates a dynamic where our developers are working on elements until the very last point possible. That's why the system update was required on Day One – and this is quite similar to what's happened with other consumer electronic products…

Every time we launch a new system, there are significant challenges… There's everything from supply to making sure the new offering meet our expectations. In the digital, connected services area, much of what we're doing is groundbreaking, so we are having to learn as we go to make sure the consumer has the very best experience possible."

As a result, the update won't be built into the system for a while. Fils-Aime notes that it will only happen after the updated firmware has been on the marketplace for a while, for whatever reason. Gamasutra projects that the soonest that might be will early of next year, perhaps spring.