Rumor: Big Summer Wii U Update not Coming this Month

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chapset said:

superchunk said:

chapset said:
Good for the 8GB model owners they'll have a bit more space for their games

Everytime there is update talk on Wii U someone brings this up. You do realize a update doesn't really affect the amount of space the OS takes up right? Likely 98% of the entire update simply overwrites some other portion of the code.

sure, nothing ever does, whenever I update my any of my consoles the update never take any extra space on my HDD

ugh.

Let's pretend its a 500mb update. That 500mb goes to a temporary folder. Of that 500mb a portion of that is the update executable code that runs the updat while the rest is the data for the update itself. The system then unpacks that update and the update overwrites existing code in the OS to fix bugs or enhance existing functionality. That's at least 90% of the update (and I'm probably being very generous here). Then you have new features that are likely a very few mbs each if that.

Once its all done, the temporary folder (the 500mb file) gets deleted or left to be garbage collected when space is needed.

So, in the end it is only a very small amount of net change that could either be bigger or smaller depending on what the overall update is doing. But it is in now way relative or equivalent to the size of the update itself.

This is all for the OS updates. Games that you have on disc and receive an update are an entirely different manner.