Wii U needs an update to play Wii disc games

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thranx said:

osed125 said:

thranx said:

MS, Sony, and Nintendo disagree with you. If so many people had their consoles connected to the internet their would be no need for on disc system updates such as all three have. Many people (in the US) do not have great internet access. Those living in the mountians, and those in the more open and spread out midwest states do not. Europe is probably better off as they have a better network set up for the internet, but the US (possibly the biggest and most important market) does not have an awesome backbone for internet through out the whole country.

I understand that point of view, but keep in mind that those people who live on the mountains won't be interested in a Wii U (or any other console for that matter). And if they are interested in one I'm pretty sure those will be an extreme minority. Also, if they were interested in a console it was probably the Wii and I don't see those people wanting to upgrade (at least not yet).

Like I said, MS, Sony, and Nintendo disagree with you. If they were such a minority there would be no need for system updates on disk as people would get them through the internet. But they are there. Other stats back up this claim. I think something like a third of all xboxes have not been connected to the internet. In fact this is the first gen that inernet has been present and used on all gaming sytems available.

Not being connected to the internet doesn't mean those people don't have any form of internet connection in their homes. This is from 2010, couldn't find any newer articles, so the numbers may vary.

http://www.destructoid.com/higher-percent-of-net-connected-ps3s-than-other-consoles-170797.phtml

Imo the reason why the 360 doesn't have as many people connected to the internet as the PS3 (as mentioned in the article) is because you have to pay for online (I know a couple of friends who have a 360 but aren't sign up to xbox live for that very reason). 

I think the main reason why the system updates are on disk is to avoid downloading it and then install it, it's still annoying to install them but at least you don't have to download the updates, so it's a "less tedious" work, so it's not necessarily because those people don't have internet. This is speculation though, I could be wrong.