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Adinnieken on 19 November 2012
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HappySqurriel said:
homer said:
HappySqurriel said:
If you've never bought a system at launch before ...

Systems at launch generally have some problems. A good launch will generally have (most of) the problems isolated as software problems that are 'mostly' fixed by patching within a couple of weeks; a bad system launch will have a significant hardware problem that kills systems that isn't resolved for months.

A system freezing is generally not something to worry too much about as long as it doesn't happen regularly. If it is something that is common and/or reproducible contact Nintendo Support.


Good sir, you are talking out of your butt. Never experienced any of the problems listed with my DS, GBA, Wii, or GCN. Tis be a recent trend at best because modern devs are lazy and apathetic.

Older systems (NES, SNES, Playstation, N64, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, PS2, XBox, and the Nintendo DS) generally didn't have much in the way of built in software so most problems experienced were hardware problems; and first generation hardware generally had a much higher failure rate than later revisions ... but with the XBox 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS and PS-Vita the inclusion of (more) complicated operating systems has resulted in more software problems in their systems.

I'll agree with Homer, you're talking out of your ass.

The difference with the Wii U is that it's Nintendo's first system with a real OS.  All prior Nintendo gaming systems when the game was inserted, the game booted via the OS on the game cartridge or disc.  With the Wii this was adapted somewhat, in that the system software was upgraded on the hardware via either downloaded updates (when connected) or disc.  However, the games themselves booted into their supported OS. 

This is how the Wii achieved backwards compatibility.  As long as older OS versions could be supported, everything the game needed to boot was on the disc.  

Both the current generation consoles, as well as the last generation consoles have had an updatable OS.  The current generation of consoles, provided system updates via both online download and game disc.  The PS3, the Wii, and the Xbox 360.