Topic: 20 hours to download a game

Big games like these in general take forever to download, its not just Nintendo's. I remember when I downloaded The Sims 3 on PC...took the ENTIRE day.
Main reason I'm sticking with physical discs for the Wii U.

Pretty much. When you have to pay the full retail price for a digital game and wait 20 hours for it to download, there really is no reason to go digital.

Sony and Microsoft are doing digital distribution just fine. Nintendo isn't to going ruin any of these convenient features all by themselves.

@Chrono_Cross You're right. Nintendo won't ruin digital distribution, but their actions will serve to keep retail games alive.

At least you have data to back up the claims. I only have 7mb/s service from Century Link, so my consoles all top out at around 6.5mb/s, regardless.
We'll see if Nintendo improves their system, but even if they do it won't matter to me. I'm not trying to argue for or against any company. That's a fact.

On Nintendo consoles. And when the demand hits it, Nintendo will be left in the dust.

You buy a book with QR codes that you must scan everytime you want to play your game!

Let's just all use dial-up from now on since it's free and everyone usually has imediate access to it. Instead of boycotting EA or Ubisoft, lets boycot the internet, electricity, gas, water, and cable companies. Haha.

I don't believe dial-up is free.

Is dial-up even around anymore?????

Looks like I'll be on Google for a while. I'll go see what the cheapest way to do stuff is. I already know digging a well will get me water, so don't need to worry about googling that... I'll just tie some cans together for phone service. Haha.

Ya it is. I'm pretty sure modems and routers just 'ampilfy' the connection to work faster. These are total guesses, which is why I said I'll be googling for a while.

I had a feeling if I said that someone would let me know! I would have thought that they'd have it sleep automatically if you had it downloading. Cheers, I'll remember this next time and for playing videos and anything else where I don't need the Gamepad screen.

You'd have to pay for the phone call, but that all depends upon your calling plan. Of course I'm talking old-fashioned BBS-style connections where you're phoning up someone's computer attached to a serial modem on the other end. I'd be surprised if there were people running DHCP servers attached to modems handing out Internet addresses to all comers gratis!

For him it is. His parents pay for it, lol.

Dial up was used by 6% of users in 2010, because of economy, or mainly amish areas according to wikipedia. Just for laughs, there's electrical outlets that are on the side the road sometimes, also fire hydrants where they plan to build houses. I'm guessing those are free. Maybe a dial up acess point with solar panels to amplify it are the future? Haha.

Ya. Muwhy pwarents wuv me swow mwuch! Bill Gates is probably rocking his first PC, using dial-up, and walking to save an extra $80 a month. Haha.

It's not the download speeds that are my problem, it's the 25GB a month quota restriction I have. Eventually a 25GB game will be released and I will have pathetically slow internet for the rest of the month.

It took about 20 minutes for me to download Tank Tank Tank, which is about 1,5 gigs.
The huge system update took me about an hour (that was somewhere between 3 and 5 gigs).
Based on that, I'd assume it would take me about 3 hours to download Fist of the North Star.

Perhaps the downloads work better in Europe.

Tank! Tank! Tank! took about 40 minutes when I downloaded it a couple of days ago. I think it downloaded a bit slowly compared to other things I've downloaded.
The "huge" system update took bit more than an hour.
Trine 2 took perhaps 50 minutes? I don't remember.
I live in Finland too!