Wii U System Update Released March 5, 2013

A small system update was released to the Wii U today which greatly shortens load times when running or quitting programs.  This was probably one of the biggest complaints that people had about the Wii U’s Operating System at launch, and it looks like Nintendo has listened and fixed it.

The update will download automatically in the background whenever you start your Wii U today.  For people who had the latest version of the Wii U firmware already installed before today, it is a small update and shouldn’t take too long to download.  Once the update has been downloaded, you will need to restart your Wii U in order to apply the update.  The system update will launch once you turn the Wii U back on.

Since installing the update, I’ve noticed load times when loading and quitting programs to be greatly cut down.  Nintendo promises that more updates and bug fixes which will further improve system performance will be coming to the Wii U down the road.