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Forums - Nintendo - Rumor: Big Summer Wii U Update not Coming this Month

JEMC on 09 July 2013
Cobretti2 said:
SSJGohan3972 said:
Otakumegane said:
Isn't August still summer?

Surprised at this, I thought they'd at least try to fix it by the time Pikmin 3 released.


Summer officially ends when fall starts (Sept. 21st), not sure when Nintendo says Summer ends.

The spring update fixed the OS, runs fine now - this one should have the Miiverse drawing app they teased at E3 though which I'm excited about (drawing on Miiverse is pretty cool).

The update could still come before the NA Pikmin 3 release (Aug 4th I think) but I expect it sometime around mid September (Wonderful 101 releases in NA on Sept. 15 so maybe around then).

 

WTF? talk about over complicating when a season ends and starts. In Australia we keep things simple, 3 months per season. When the 4th month starts the new season starts.

There are two ways of talking about seasons: metereological and astronomical.

Astronomical_ It's every 3 months and they start and end when the Earth and the Sun are in certain positions: the as far as posible for the Sun, the closest to the Sun and the 2 times that the Earth is in the middle of both positions. This seasons are the ones that start on the 21th of June, September, December and March.

Metereological_ It's when the weather starts to change. It's also 3 months each and start the 1st of June, September, December and March.



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Turkish on 09 July 2013
curl-6 said:
Turkish said:
Was this the last big update? I remember there were 2 this year but dont know if this is the first or the 2nd update.

It's the second, the first was in April or thereabouts, and vastly improved the time it took to boot games or return to the home menu from a game.


Ah thanks, lets hope its another big improvement



superchunk on 09 July 2013

Figured it would be August all along. Didn't they say that in a ND?



superchunk on 09 July 2013
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.



NintendoPie on 09 July 2013

Welp, they've only got a few more months of Summer left, so they better get it out soon. It would be quite awkward if we got our Summer Update in October. Almost as awkward as the October Revolution happening in November.



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chapset on 09 July 2013
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



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superchunk on 09 July 2013
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.



curl-6 on 09 July 2013

If I were Nintendo, I'd be cutting down the OS to make more RAM available for games.



MDMAlliance on 10 July 2013
curl-6 said:
If I were Nintendo, I'd be cutting down the OS to make more RAM available for games.


If I were to cut down on anything in the OS, I would make the UI simpler.



curl-6 on 10 July 2013
MDMAlliance said:
curl-6 said:
If I were Nintendo, I'd be cutting down the OS to make more RAM available for games.


If I were to cut down on anything in the OS, I would make the UI simpler.

The fact that it takes up 1GB in the first place tells me it's probably bloated as hell and simply needs optimization.