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Conegamer said:
Maybe this will finally add Nintendo TVii in Europe!


What is nintendo tv? Have they realeased it yet?



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I didn't notice anything either, even made a Miiverse post about it - but it seems some people think WiiU is a little bit faster now.

SCIENCE: Does the Wii U update really improve loading times?

Wake up everyone, it’s time for science!

So today Nintendo released a small Wii U firmware update, and since then I’ve seen a few outlets claim that it “seems” like the update has sped things up on their consoles. Unfortunately, “seeming” isn’t good enough for me, and since I hadn’t taken it upon myself to update my console yet, I decided to test some load times both before and after the update to see how they compared. A few things to note: Firstly, the update auto-triggered (without giving me the option to opt out) halfway through my testing so I couldn’t get as many readings as I wanted in the “before” category. Secondly, I eliminated two results that were clearly technical outliers (a 35 second post-update “Miiverse” load and a 39 second pre-update “Settings” load) because that’s how statistics work.

Here’s what I found:

Startup

What: Time from hitting the power button to when users are selectable.
Pre-Update: 19.6s
Post-Update: 25.4s, 25.6s, 25.2s
Conclusion: Hard to say since the update auto-triggered before I could test more than one pre-update startup time. It would seem that things have gotten worse though.

Miiverse

What: Time from hitting the Miiverse icon to when things become selectable within Miiverse.
Pre-Update: 14.5s, 24.1s, 21.7s
Post-Update: 13.7s, 11.7s, 11.4s
Conclusion: While still not perfect, there is a noticeable improvement in the loading times of Miiverse after the update.

eShop

What: Time from hitting the eShop icon to when things become selectable within the eShop.
Pre-Update: 21.7s, 23.5s, 35.5s, 37.9s, 19.0s
Post-Update: 22.6s, 17.5s, 16.0s, 16.0s, 21.8s
Conclusion: Overall, a noticeable improvement. It’s much more consistent than the load times pre-update.

Settings

What: Time from hitting the “Settings” app icon to when things become selectable within “Settings”
Pre-Update: 18.1s, 20.8s, 24.1s
Post-Update: 16.6s, 16.0s, 16.0s
Conclusion: Again, a noticeable improvement. Nothing mindblowing, but an appreciated speed-up. And significantly more consistent.

Returning to the Home Menu

What: Time from hitting “Close” in “Settings” to when things were selectable on the Home Menu.
Pre-Update: 23.3s, 24.0s
Post-Update: 23.4s, 23.4s, 22.9s
Conclusion: No appreciable change.

Make of this data what you please! It’s hardly 100% science-proof, but it’s about as good as I’ve seen so far.



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GeneralTsao said:
How much memory do you have left after these updates? I mean if you bought the cheaper box you have none, but if you bought the 32gb model you probably have like 2gbs left? Lol.

Do you really thing a system update stays on the HD/internal memory? They will be written to the firmware and deleted afterwards from HD. I thought everyone with a little bit of technical knowledge knows that.



no update onmy system as per this morning.. is this only US?



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The numbers above would suggest there has been some performance improvements, but this isn't one of the two updates of which Iwata spoke, is it?



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I'm surprised no one noticed anything. it is faster than before especially when it returns to the main screen. maybe three seconds and it is there



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

I didn't touch my WiiU yesterday, but from that post's suggestion it seems that things are over 25% faster. That's a big jump! I'll have to check it out. Nintendo needs to work to ensure Wii U is running flawlessly and with as many features as possible for when its competition launches.



hsrob said:
The numbers above would suggest there has been some performance improvements, but this isn't one of the two updates of which Iwata spoke, is it?

I think that is next month, the update that “adds new features and further improvements to the user experience”.

Although Miyamoto said that, "We think that by this summer, the system is going to be very much improved over how it’s performing currently."
http://techland.time.com/2013/03/07/miyamoto-the-wii-u-gamepad-gives-us-advantages-over-tablets-smartphones/



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