Wii U System Update 5.1.1 is Now Available

Yay.

Hah. No Nintendo direct surprise to go along with update it seems.

I think it's about time nintendo released a major upgrade for the wii u. An account system would be most appreciated nintendo especially with the holidays coming up. Put it up now so if you put it up around christmas it doesn't take the eshop down.

Thank god my hopes weren't high.

What about N64 and Gamecube...maybe an announcement of Zelda MM or OoT for eShop?

So improve, much adjust, such stable, wow.

@blaa6 absolutely.

Heh, this system is about as stable as a Jenga Tower with all the blocks on.

Now we just need to add some heavy duty glue.

Wiiu is becoming so stable that in near futur u could build a house over it...

So again, in other words "one of our coders found an exploit, so we fixed it." Glad to see the software engineers at Nintendo are put to good work.

The Wii U is so stable now that I could place an entire Wailord on top of it, and it wouldn't break.

mmmmm stability.....

Seems too coincidental.......like something is gonna happen to shock us all.....and I suppose by shocking us all I mean nothing will happen other then stability and the engineers at Nintendo are laughing at all of us for getting excited about every minor update.

Looking back on older Nintendo consoles it's nice to enjoy one that can be easily updated regularly along with patches to games and extra content.

I am wondering if Nintendo will do the account thing this generation. I was already to go mostly digital, but the tying of games to hardware has stopped me (had a bad time with our Wii in the last year before Wii U). Wii U to Wii U transfer is a start, but that means if something goes wrong on my hardware I have to get it in working order before transferring. Not good enough for me yet.

So many questions to answer with an account system and a big infrastructure to go around it, too. What cool Nintendo-ish features could they add as a result? Would be nice.

For those getting all excited about the timing. I wouldn't expect too much. I don't think they'd want to have an update AND a launch of a demo on the same day/night. It would be good to let the update breath a week and make sure it didn't add additional issues — though it is a minor update...

My vote (since I have none) is an out of the blue/orange Splatoon Demo! Woohoo!

I've given up on Tvii for Europe now, like most people..

For those who were wondering, it fixes an exploit that was leaked (and has nothing to do with piracy before anyone gets crazy) a few weeks ago.

At this point I'd do just about anything for even the most basic new feature.

Wild speculation time? I'm gonna guess an announcement for a DS Zelda (Phantom Hourglass) available on VC in all area's to celebrate the upcoming Hyrule Warriors

Garrus working for Nintendo, a few calibrations on Wii U.

@DiscoGentleman
a demo might get them lots of fans but it just might turn off a lot of people too. Specially if it is as repetitive as some people think it might be.

They will probably just be showing off the English dubbed version. I wouldn't expect very much. Then again if they said they were releasing a playable demo of the new Zelda at the end of it, I can't say I would be mad.

Any chance the stability helps w/ the Quick Menu? Every time I start WW HD fomr th equick menu the Wii U come s to a compelte halt w/ just Wii on th eTV. It' shappened aout 6 o r7 time sso I'm not trying again. IT happened 4 or 5 times w/ a disc in s I stopped leaving the disc in a nd it worke da few times but then it started freezing again so I'v ehad enough of the uickstart meu.

Knew it was nothing serious. Nintendo doesn't really do demos of mainstream games of course this wasn't going to be a Hyrule Warriors demo

@tysonfury That is a sad fact yes, I believe so too. TVii will never be enabled in Europe.

I'm all for a more stable system. Hopefully N64 games will be available on the VC soon (and I know this is a pipe dean at the moment).

My system is so stable I could hang a towel from it.

Hooray for "stability".

Nintendo's updating the stability so much, i'm sure by the time they reach 6.0 they will have reached Singularity

@Vrael That sadly probably won't be for a while, because they just released the 5.0.0 update about two months ago and these major updates tend to take them a long time to develop.

Hopefully it will stop mine crashing every 3rd time I turn it on.

Hopefully this minor update is going to really stand out for a change. I've been getting some lag in MH3U since the last one..so hopefully this will fix that. Need to watch the direct too!

Maybe it has to do with a fix for that X-type leaderboard crashing thing.that was removed from the e-shop.

When I'm cleaning my gamepad while switching it on (so I dunno exactly how to replicate this bug again but it happened 4 times already with the last one being last night), sometimes the left stick gets stuck (on the system not on the gamepad itself) and the hand cursor on the screen keeps going up. I can scroll down but when I let go of the left stick, it goes up again. I'll need to put off and on the console again to fix it.

@outburst that's it losing calibration. That would also happen when starting up a n64 with the joystick pushed.

@crasheffort
I see. I will try that later if I could replicate it again. Thanks!

So many questions. So few answers... Sigh!

How much more stable could it get?

Has anyone played Stability yet? Is it worth downloading?

@ThomasBW84 As I said in a message I sent to the staff (not that they ever seem interested in the specifics), this update was for the browser. It blocked an exploitable vulnerability that was leaked about a month ago.

While Microsoft and Sony add things like MP3 playback, 3D Blu-Ray support and pre-loading of games etc, Nintendo gives us more "stability" and very little else with each new update.

How about actually adding some meaningful stuff to the system, Nintendo, like basic MP3/MP4/AVI/DVD playback, a proper unified account system or some useful TVii functionality in the UK, etc...

@DiscoGentleman me too

@outburst I think there's a way to reset the stick calibration, I read it somewhere on the manual where you hold A,B,+ and - for at least three seconds, oh and don't hold the stick from its neutral position when you turn the console on, launch a software and quit the software.

@Kirk Read my previous response.

@JoostinOnline

I don't see the relevance.

The point I was making was that these updates are mostly worthless from the end consumer point of view in terms of actually adding any features and services that we give a sh*t about.

Yes, there's the obligatory fixes and "stability" increases but what about Nintendo actually adding some meaningful stuff we want too, like the various features and services I mentioned for example...

Don't Dream guys. This update is ONLY to block the webkit exploit. Some stupid guyz release their NAND dumping tools screenshots before they finished the hack. Nintendo answer by an update

More stability is always welcome, specially for us who leave the system in the upright position.

@Fidu21 "Nintendo's updating the stability so much, i'm sure by the time they reach 6.0 they will have reached Singularity"
@Ootfan98 "Has anyone played Stability yet? Is it worth downloading?"

lol
prease understand stabirity
Oh well, I'd rather Nintendo gives us some updates rather than none.

This update was just to increment the version number.

Makes me wonder if certain hard drives playing up since 5.0 is being looked at or can even be fixed. If I were Nintendo I would have feature updates in place and held back so when security patches happen they can brush it off as "lol no it was this"

What kind of features? Simple things like folders or being able to change the colour of the wara plaza or something...

@Vrael I wouldn't count on a full cloud account system as in Xbox Live or PSN for Nintendo hardware this generation at least. Their recent update adding wiiu-to-wiiu system transfer just makes it more cumbersome to de-attach the Nintendo Network ID from the hardware... From what Iwata presented on January, their target is to unify accounts with NNID until the next generation it seems. I just hope that all my purchases on my WiiU/3DS are transferable to whatever they are releasing...

Feel...so...STABLE!!!

little bit too many updates

Did someone say stable?

@Kirk My point is that this update wasn't something scheduled. The others have added new features.

I think for now I will stay physical on Nintendo's hardware game consoles until they have a proper all digital system ready to go. Which means I will just go for all digital on my PC laptop for now.

I feel so much stability. Definitely not getting vertigo any time soon.

@JoostinOnline

My point is that most of the updates have added very little of any genuine worth for the most part.

Nintendo should be pushing out some big new compelling features in these updates, like the basic MP3/MP4/CD/DVD playback, proper unified online shop accounts and some actual meaningful TVii integration in the UK, as I mentioned.

@Kirk I disagree. With the exception of this latest update, there have been some very nice features.

CD/DVD playback will never happen. The drive isn't capable of reading either.

Enough stability, we need folders on the WiiU menu before I run out of space.
And a real account system

The web browser version has been updated in the latest system update from version 3.0.0.9561 to 3.1.1.9577. The NX version has changed too. No idea whats new, perhaps security updates.