Download Your Wii U Games Overnight

Wii U will launch with a digital store offering downloads of retail games, but with the Wii U disc holding up to 25GB you could probably learn a sport to an Olympic standard in the time it'll take to download Pikmin 3. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata knows this, so Wii U will let you download games overnight.

[mike1up]

Nice Read.

I am more concerned with the actual storage, than the download times. I am really hoping that Nintendo will allow you to use any external hard drive, as opposed to a branded Nintendo one. I have to pick one up for my computer anyways, so it would be nice to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

[sloth3395]

they already said you can use an external hard drive

[iamtehpwn]

Anyone remember WiiConnect 24?
yeahhh, similar concept to that, except they never did anything with WiiConnect 24.
Hopefully this one they will follow through on.

[--Onilink--]

its already working pretty well on the 3DS, so i see no reason to doubt it will work as well on the WiiU

[dirthurts]

I remember it overheating my Wii and causing odd video issues afterwards...
but other than that I don't remember much good coming from WiiConnect 24.

[Akuma-]

@ Mr Mike

Leave the birds alone and don't throw stones at them. Would you like it if people started to stone you?

[mamotte]

I hope this console comes with a really big hard drive, then...

[BitbyDeath]

25GB overnight? No way that'd ever happen on my connection.

[Game4life]

sorry to hear hat. I think i could do that in like 3 or 4 hours max

[BitbyDeath]

Seriously?
I might have it in a month if i'm lucky.
My connection only goes to like 10mb/sec

[Game4life]

ahah yeah. i think i usually get 5 gigs an hour

My speed i think is like 24mbps

That sucks though

[mamotte]

HA! Thats nothing! I got 540kb/s! Welcome to Colombia! oh, wait, sh...

[GamerSciz]

Ok...it would all depend on the cap that the server has. If you were to get a constant 5mb/s then it would take just under 2 hours. So that's not horrible but I have a 25mb/s dl and the fastest I have ever gotten was from STEAM which was like a 1.2mb/s. At that rate it would take about 6 hours which isn't horrible really since I get about 6+ hours of sleep nightly..

[kneon]

I think you've got your bits and bytes all confused, at 5Mb/s it should be over 10 hours.

I have 75Mb/s at home but most servers can't keep up with that speed, still I expect it would be an hour or two at most for me to download 25GB.

[--Onilink--]

also, the download speed you get from your provider is never going to be your actual speed when downloading something, you need to divide the number by 8, i think.

[ChickeyCantor]

@oni
Yep, you scale it back to megabyte if you divide it by 8.

1 megabits = 0.125 megabytes
(1 / 8 = 0.125)

[dirthurts]

Yeah, it's usually the server holding peoples downloads back, not the connection speed itself.
If my 25 megs per second actually meant something I could download huge files in no time.
Let's see, 25 megs per second...= 1.5 gigs per minute. Yeah, not happening.

[kma2k]

i have a 15mbps connection downloading a 16gb few weeks ago the file took me 8.5 hours on a wensday afternoon with a game that was well over a few months old. Imagine downloading say zelda on launch day with a million other people trying to it might take a week or two. Digital downloading is no where near ready for prime time!

[--Onilink--]

well, if they implement preloading, like steam, it shouldnt be an issue

[ChickeyCantor]

Am I glad I have 30Mb/s.
10 gigs within an hour.

I feel so bad for other countries that have IPs who charge sh/ttons for a crappy connection.

[dirthurts]

Like America?

[juaburg]

Like South Africa...

[FinalomegaS]

SPEED INTERNET 120

Ideal to experience the ultimate online access.

Download speed of 120 Mbps, upload speed up to 20 Mbps
Monthly data transfer of 170 GB download and 30 GB upload*
700-MB movie
49 sec

EST Canada, just hate the bandwidth cap BS