{"id":44785,"date":"2018-09-04T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/wii_u_receives_first_system_firmware_update_since_2017"},"modified":"2018-09-04T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:05:00","slug":"wii-u-receives-first-system-firmware-update-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/wii-u-receives-first-system-firmware-update-since-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii U Receives First System Firmware Update Since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53efe12cc91c1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53efe12cc91c1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside \/>\n<p class=\"description\">Enhanced stability and usability<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span class=\"icon icon-time\" \/> <span>3 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Wii U\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53efe12cc91c1\/wii-u.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/53efe12cc91c1\/wii-u.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wii U\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo might be busy <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/rumour_switch_firmware_update_6_0_0_is_imminent_dataminers_uncover_the_details\">preparing<\/a> for the launch of the Switch online service later this month, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped it from rolling out a brand new firmware update for the Wii U. This is the first time the system has received an update since July 2017, according to the patch notes page.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing particularly\u00a0exciting about Version\u00a05.5.3. &#8211; with further improvements made to the overall system stability along with other minor adjustments. We&#8217;re guessing this has been rolled out to\u00a0prevent any recent system exploits. Here are the patch notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Improvements to system stability and usability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Are you surprised to see an update to the Wii U&#8217;s firmware after so long?\u00a0Are you still playing the system on a regular basis or did you buy a Switch and never look back? Tell us in the comments.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/en-americas-support.nintendo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/1436\/~\/system-menu-update-history\" href=\"https:\/\/en-americas-support.nintendo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/1436\/~\/system-menu-update-history\">en-americas-support.nintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/wiiu\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2018-09-04T04:03:28+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enhanced stability and usability by Liam Doolan 3 hours ago Nintendo might be busy preparing for the launch of the Switch online service later this month, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped it from rolling out a brand new firmware update for the Wii U. This is the first time the system has received an update since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}