{"id":95637,"date":"2019-06-25T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/the_wii_u_just_received_its_first_firmware_update_for_2019"},"modified":"2019-06-25T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:45:00","slug":"the-wii-u-just-received-its-first-firmware-update-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/the-wii-u-just-received-its-first-firmware-update-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wii U Just Received Its First Firmware Update For 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f7cfb66197543\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f7cfb66197543\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Stability is all you need<\/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 class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2019-06-25T01:45:00+00:00\"><span>9 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Wii U\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f7cfb66197543\/wii-u.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f7cfb66197543\/wii-u.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wii U\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It appears Nintendo hasn&#8217;t completely forgotten the Wii U, as a new firmware update has just been rolled out for the system. This is the first one for 2019 and quite possibly the last, based on its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en-americas-support.nintendo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/1436\/~\/system-menu-update-history\">recent history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t already guess where this is going, Version 5.5.4 improves stability and makes various other minor adjustments to enhance your experience. Here are the official patch notes, courtesy of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectly-nintendo.com\/nintendo-firmware-updates-wii-u-nintendo-3ds\/\">Perfectly Nintendo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\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 still playing your Wii U in 2019? Have you updated to this latest version yet? Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.perfectly-nintendo.com\/nintendo-firmware-updates-wii-u-nintendo-3ds\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectly-nintendo.com\/nintendo-firmware-updates-wii-u-nintendo-3ds\/\">perfectly-nintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/wiiu\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2019-06-25T10:55:31+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stability is all you need by Liam Doolan 9 hours ago It appears Nintendo hasn&#8217;t completely forgotten the Wii U, as a new firmware update has just been rolled out for the system. This is the first one for 2019 and quite possibly the last, based on its recent history. If you can&#8217;t already guess [&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-95637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95637","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=95637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}