Why does Microsoft and Sony get a free pass?

[fauzman]

Part of the reason is that the Wii U update took a long time but also that the Wii U was very large considering the capacity of the basis Wii U version at the time. From memory, downloading the update would take up half the hard drive space the Wii U had available. Compare this with 300mb update for the ps4 and a hdd of 500GB (dont have a clue about the X1).