Maybe cause...
good god
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Wii U bricks if you shut down during software update process
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good god
Maybe cause...
5gigs? lol it would take me 11-13hours. So if sth. happen in this 11-13hours with my console it would be broken oO
Updating Software is different from updating OS.
That's why updating a BIOS is the kind of thing you do on a sunny day, on a battery back up.
One wrong move and its dead. You have to flash it back into existence.
Pai Pai Master
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5GB update on day one? Next-gen indeed.
Maybe cause...
HOLY SHIT - 5GB ??!! that can't be true right???
- the idea that Nintendo launched a console with a 5gb patch is NUTSO. I remember a time when people freaked out over 1st day small patches for games, let alone a console.
Imagine the excitement on Christmas day....only to be drowned out by a 3 hour patch.
This would mean they didn't finish in time but knew they had to get the hardware out for the holiday season. wow...
alfredofroylan
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Next Gen updates !!!!!!Maybe cause...
grimshawish
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Well this was stupid.
Also update process is 1 hour. Not 2-3.
Also update process is 1 hour. Not 2-3.
Randolph Freelander
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A 5GB update and a 2-3 hour process?
Nintendo, you're doing it wrong.
Nintendo, you're doing it wrong.
TheDarkKnight774
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how's the update work again? the only period of risk is after the download and its applying the firmware right?
RobotsAnger
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Wow, and I thought the 200MB ps3 ones were bad.
The download+install are probably in one progress bar. If you turn it off during the download nothing should happen. Dude on twitter didn't say (and probably doesnt know) during what stage he unplugged it.
DICKS AHOY
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What if your internet goes down while it's updating but not your power?
Randolph Freelander
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How do we know Keighley wasn't amped up on Mountain Diew game fuel and Doritos when he made that post? Can he be trusted?
Criminal Upper
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Who the fuck turns off their console or unplugs it during an update?
If it is like any other piece of hardware it should be fine then. It will just reverse the update.
I was going to say "I'll believe it when I hear it from someone not stupid enough to turn off a console during a firmware update" but apparently probably.
ymmv
Almost as stupid as a day one 5 gig patch.
I loled
SolarPowered
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Rule #1 of system launches in next gen
No day 1 3GB+ software updates. Someone is gonna shut it off and try again because the shit takes hours to download.
Your move, Nintendo.
I get paranoid as hell about any of my consoles when they are in the middle of a long save or update. Making such a huge update a day one thing is bound to bite some impatient people in the ass though.
No day 1 3GB+ software updates. Someone is gonna shut it off and try again because the shit takes hours to download.
Your move, Nintendo.
Seriously
I get paranoid as hell about any of my consoles when they are in the middle of a long save or update. Making such a huge update a day one thing is bound to bite some impatient people in the ass though.
Blind people and/or the illiterate, perhaps?
Ding ding ding.
MiamiWesker
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Is there anyway to download this on the computer and use a USB to install it like PS3. Cause there is no way I am waiting hours on my first day with the Wii U for that shit to download.
ViewtifulJC
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Tell mom and dad to plug up the Wii-U beforehand on X-mas morning, get that 5 GB download going
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