Day one update necessary to play Wii games on the Wii U

On the day of the Wii U's release, there will be an update that will add extra functionality. You'll get Miiverse support, TVii support, Wii U Chat, and the eShop. That's been known for a while, and recently, it's been confirmed that you'll need the update to in order to play Wii games. If you try to play a Wii game without the update, you'll be asked to apply it to your system.

IGN

Fair enough. Better that than the alternative of waiting longer for the whole package while whatever stuff the update included was built in.

Okey. I don't see why they would not just install the up to date software during manufacturing. But okey.

DarkMarth wrote:Okey. I don't see why they would not just install the up to date software during manufacturing. But okey.

They're still fine-tuning it. Or at least, they were; I'd imagine they're done by now.