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keroncoward on 01 April 2013
OdinHades said:
Just look at Vita if you want to see a really fast OS. No waiting times AT ALL. Wii U will never get there.


True....thank god Wii U will never get like the Vita



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Chark on 01 April 2013

I'm kind of surprised the Wii U didn't do a better job initially with its OS speed. I mean the Wii had an OS, this wasn't Nintendo's first OS. I'm sure the Wii U in a few years will be very different and optimized, but I don't see MS or Sony hitting that kind of obstacle. In fact PS4 is trying to be the instant console isn't it? No wait kind of goal. We will see how that turns out. Wii U has time to improve on things but it seems their headstart wasn't put to great use, at least not to expectation.



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keroncoward on 01 April 2013

This is good news. Iwata said there will be another update after this one that will make it even faster.



kitler53 on 01 April 2013

xmb is too slow. i'll be mad if the ps4 doesn't improve on that.



Scisca on 01 April 2013
keroncoward said:
OdinHades said:
Just look at Vita if you want to see a really fast OS. No waiting times AT ALL. Wii U will never get there.


True....thank god Wii U will never get like the Vita

Don't be such a Wii U hater! We all know Wii U will never get like the Vita in total sales, but it's still a decent console.



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Th3PANO on 01 April 2013

a fairer comparsion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LY5jjoZ5zo&list=FLA2eWbxGWe23ZiZBEC1eGGA&index=1

both games are disk based now. the one before was a psn game.



superchunk on 01 April 2013

Pretty much what everyone said. After April's update WiiU OS will be about as fast as PS360, two consoles that have had 7 years worth of optimization and upgrades.

Then after the summer update, WiiU will hopefully be nearly instant in transition and be what a modern electronics user expects from new hardware/OS.



ethomaz on 01 April 2013
superchunk said:
Pretty much what everyone said. After April's update WiiU OS will be about as fast as PS360, two consoles that have had 7 years worth of optimization and upgrades.

Then after the summer update, WiiU will hopefully be nearly instant in transition and be what a modern electronics user expects from new hardware/OS.

XMB not changed a lot in speed with the years... it is a lot slow yet.



outlawauron on 01 April 2013
Th3PANO said:

a fairer comparsion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LY5jjoZ5zo&list=FLA2eWbxGWe23ZiZBEC1eGGA&index=1

both games are disk based now. the one before was a psn game.

I wonder which PS3 they're using? I find that my new slimmer model seems to load faster than my launch PS3. Not sure if it's just placebo, but it seems that way.



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Lafiel on 01 April 2013
dsgrue3 said:

If you're content competing with 6/7 year old units, who am I to disagree? I find the XMB to be incredibly slow, especially in comparison to my laptops.

yea, the PS3 is slow - vita instantenously switches to the menu