Over the weekend and through yesterday there was rampant speculation that the update was coming Monday due to NOAs usage of a countdown for VC service. Well, apparently it seems that the countdown was actually for a release of the launch line-up for Wii U's Virtual Console service. Why the hell Nintendo thought that deserved a countdown when its obvious the users are far more interested in the actual release of the updates, is beyond me.
After the Nintendo Direct stated the update was coming "next week" (which is now this week) and VC would launch the day after, most of us, me included figured that meant a Wed/Thur update with VC being Thur/Fri. It appears our speculation was accurate.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp
If you pay attention to this network status page at Nintendo you'll notice their was a large update across all of eShop on Monday. Then there is another Wii U only eShop update happening on Thursday from 5pm to 7pm PDT.
No one should think that the update we all long for is going to happen before that scheduled Wii U eShop maintenance. Thus, it seems appropriate that the update will hit, at least NA Wii U, Thursday after 7pm PDT with the VC service coming Friday.
There is also rumors that the MiiVerse functionality for 3DS/smartphones/tablets will come this weekend as well.
Guess we'll know when we know because Nintendo is simply unwilling to actually provide dates for these things.
