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[Roo]

It looks like the Wii U menu has too many prompts. After you press the home button it asks you twice, if you want to close the darn software. People aren't idiots, they know they are pressing a home button.

You don't see the "Close this software and return to the Wii U menu" prompts in every Wii U game.
And don't understimate people's "idiocy" "I want to change the controllers settings.... Oh shit!!! I hit the close software button"

Don't know why it bothers you so much tho. I takes like half a second to choose the "Wii U Menu" option.

 

[Zero148]

For their next video they need to show the download and install of the update taking an amount of time comparable to everyone else instead of being roughly ten times slower.

well at least for me the WiiU is not slower than my 360. My 360 (I booted it up the first time this year recently) had a system update, it was no dashboard update so I don't think it was very big, and at the same time (actually a minute later) my WiiU donloaded a 150mb update for NFSMWU and the download plus install was still earlier finished than the 360 update

 

[Tehalemi]

the chimey bell thing at 40 seconds is the thing that annoys me, ever since watching a livestream of that guy who got his early, and it was that chime for like an hour straight

oh gawd, I remember that! Highly trollish that dude IIRC.


Caught Iwata's announcement on Miiverse as well. Very cool news indeed.

 

[Axspell]

Why? Both the 360 and PS3 interface received multiple iterations, addressing both speed and cosmetics, over the life of those platforms.

Just because someone else did it doesn't make it excusable.

And besides the degree to which the Wii U's OS force players to sit through much longer load times is a lot larger than the 360 or PS3's vanilla OSes did.

 

[Meelow]

Someone made a video comparing the Wii U update time to the PS3 time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32lo6mB8ng&feature=player_embedded

PS3 is a millisecond faster.

 

[xxbrothawizxx63]

Was about to post that. Yep, it's not bad at all. Hopefully they'll still be able to shave some seconds off with the next update over the summer though. The faster the better.

 

[TheDrowningMan]

Someone made a video comparing the Wii U update time to the PS3 time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32lo6mB8ng&feature=player_embedded

PS3 is a millisecond faster.

That is a very fast PS3.

 

[hatchx]

Do we have an indication if the update(s) will speed up the miiverse or eshop/downloads at all?

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

The only thing I can think about when watching the video is I'm absolutely blown away it shipped with that 'before' load time.

 

[The Lamp]

They almost shouldn't have released this video because it's embarrassing how bad it was before. Can't believe they launched a product like that.

 

[flippedb]

That is a very fast PS3.

True. My PS3 is sloooooooow as hell.

 

[frankie_baby]

its april in 4 hours time, maybe they'll spring it on us soon

 

[Jarekx]

looks good. I just want some VC goodness soon. Gimme LTTP and super metroid.

 

[War Peaceman]

looks good. I just want some VC goodness soon. Gimme LTTP and super metroid.

Super Metroid is May15th for only 30p/cents(?).

 

[Diddy Kong]

its april in 4 hours time, maybe they'll spring it on us soon

I have a feeling it will be the end of April. I really hope I'm wrong though. Really...

 

[MarkusRJR]

True. My PS3 is sloooooooow as hell.

My PS3 is very similar to the one in the video. I have a brand new one though (super slim 500gb), so maybe it's related to your hard drive's speed? I dunno, maybe my PS3 is magical.

 

[frankie_baby]

I have a feeling it will be the end of April. I really hope I'm wrong though. Really...

yeah we can hope though

 

[gemoran4]

hope 3ds gets a similar patch. Takes way fucking too long to do anything. Even going to notifications takes like half a min.

i just counted them time it took my 3ds to load the notifications menu (and update list)... it took just under 5 seconds.

Only thing that is really noticeably slow is opening up the eshop (at least of the apps i opened)

 

[gemoran4]

i always knew going back to the wii u os took a little while, but i think i became adjusted to it...seeing this though it makes me wonder how they could have released it in such a state.

There's supposed to be another update in the summer so i wonder if that will have give it another big jump.

 

[Sandfox]

I have a feeling it will be the end of April. I really hope I'm wrong though. Really...

Its probably going to come out after they speak to the investors later in the month.

 

[flippedb]

My PS3 is very similar to the one in the video. I have a brand new one though (super slim 500gb), so maybe it's related to your hard drive's speed? I dunno, maybe my PS3 is magical.

I have a 6 month-old Slim PS3. I hate that thing lol

 

[SmokeMaxX]

I have a feeling it will be the end of April. I really hope I'm wrong though. Really...

They were misquoted. They meant the "April Window."

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

i always knew going back to the wii u os took a little while, but i think i became adjusted to it...seeing this though it makes me wonder how they could have released it in such a state.

There's supposed to be another update in the summer so i wonder if that will have give it another big jump.

I thought the summer update is supposed to be the bigger of the two.

 

[JohnnyWestlake]

well at least for me the WiiU is not slower than my 360. My 360 (I booted it up the first time this year recently) had a system update, it was no dashboard update so I don't think it was very big, and at the same time (actually a minute later) my WiiU donloaded a 150mb update for NFSMWU and the download plus install was still earlier finished than the 360 update

Unfortunately the 360 dashboard updates are nothing like they used to be. They used to be tiny updates that only seemed to update specific files. Nowadays you seem to be downloading the entire firmware each time - every single dashboard update takes many times longer than they used too.

 

[Roo]

Where is my goddamn ND, Nintendo?
It's April already

 

[Frodo]

Where is my goddamn ND, Nintendo?
It's April already

it's coming... It will be here at any time!