Wii U Spring system update hits next week

The spring system update for the Wii U is coming next week, and among the changes will be improved load times and the ability to move data between two USB drives, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said during today's Nintendo Direct presentation.

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The spring system update for the Wii U is coming next week, and among the changes will be improved load times and the ability to move data between two USB drives, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said during today's Nintendo Direct presentation.

The improved load times will affect switching between applications or returning to the main Wii U menu. The update will also allow users to automatically install programs and software updates that have been downloaded in the background while playing games. This process can also happen when the Wii U is turned off as part of a new standby function.

Players who are in a hurry to play when the console is starting up will also be able to press B on the GamePad to get to the Wii U menu.

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    April 17, 2013 10:05 AM

    John Keefer posted a new article, Wii U Spring system update hits next week.

    The spring system update for the Wii U is coming next week, and among the changes will be improved load times and the ability to move data between two USB drives, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said during today's Nintendo Direct presentation.

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      April 17, 2013 10:59 AM

      Lot of good underlying improvements here, it's clear the OS wasn't ready at launch but at least they're getting it there.

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      April 17, 2013 11:15 AM

      If you look at the video, pressing B at start up boots to the Wii menu, not Wii U. That way you dont have to click on the wii menu icon on the wii u menu to access wii discs, vc, and wiiware games.

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        April 17, 2013 11:19 AM

        Which, while interesting, I doubt I'll get a lot of use out of. Definitely a nice to have though (like the majority of the rest of the update).

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        April 17, 2013 11:21 AM

        Oh, man, that's fucking awesome. -Deathlove, who mostly boots up the Wii U to play Xenoblade.

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          April 17, 2013 11:24 AM

          I was going to comment about making Xenoblade faster to get to, I am now working on the Prime Trilogy in the middle of everything else. My poor poor backlog.

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      April 17, 2013 3:27 PM

      It's great the OS switching times will be improved, but what about the loading times for games? I thought the system's Blu-Ray drive was like 2x that of a PS3, yet the load times for a lot of the games are uniformly awful.... anyone know why that is?

      Also, rather than reserving half of the 2GB of RAM for the OS, it would be great if they could streamline the OS and make more memory available to developers...

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