Wii U froze on me.

[HappySqurriel]

Adinnieken said:

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.  

You can believe what you want, but I can't think of any game console released in the last 14 years that didn't have some issues at launch ... Only the big problems that are handled poorly (RROD) are usually remembered though.