Wii U System Update Now Live, Finally Puts TVii Out Of Its Misery

RIP Tvii. You probably wont be missed. Or at least not in Australia where we didnt even get it avalible ://

Someday I'd like to see patch notes for one of these "stability" updates. Aside from the usual shutting down of hacks and exploits and whatnot, I imagine some of it will amount to "menu text misaligned, moved three pixels to the right."

My WiiU is so stable I was going to move it and wasn't able to.

Removing games and apps. Digital, the future! lol. Oh hai stability! Missed ya!

they should have replaced Tii V with a UStream app so you could live stream your games direct from your Wii U or a Twitch app

maybe youtube could add a live stream function to the Youtube app

Oh man, my Wii U is so stable, it can stand upright without the little stands!
@Zebetite Don't the "stability" updates mean smoothing things up such as some apps loading time and the overall look of the interface ?

@SanderEvers It would be funny if it actually meant nothing, as in they imply they modified something when they really didn't do anything...
...Oh darn, is it a conspiracy?

@Zebetite can't see Nintendo even bothering. The Wii U OS is misaligned.

My Wii U is so stable I can keep my horses in it.

TVii . . .

What a joke!

This is exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about when I say the Wii U was a bit half-baked and didn't fully live up to its potential; with features that are often lacking and/or gimped in some way, and then in the case of TVii just dropped entirely because it wasn't even used.

That does not equal a satisfying experience for consumers, and imo you can't simply counter-balance this kind of stuff by having a bunch of good games. Good games don't remove or even hide the issues.

If you want a truly successful and beloved console, then imo you have to deliver a system that doesn't have any obvious issues or disappoint the consumer in any significant ways, and then you have to have a bunch of great games, software and services, to go along with that too. That's what the NES and SNES were, and it's why they are two of Nintendo's most successful AND most beloved consoles of all time.

Nintendo don't have the skills, investment or talent to implement a multimedia service.

Any company involved with them run a mile sooner or later as proven by companies across the world.

This is an embarrassing U turn for Nintendo. Social Tv was one of their biggest pitches.

RIP in pieces, TVii.

If my user experience is enhanced any further, I fear I may explode.

Wii U the perfect person/thing to take a mortgage out with.

DAT STABILITY

RIP in pepronies

It was a good idea with a terrible follow through. I think that people were just not familiar with it. If it had been a little more connected with actual TV providers instead of just a digital TV Guide then it probably would have caught more traction.

A bit of a waste but I'm sure can only mean better features for Nintendo's next console

My Wii U is so stable, I can't even move it from my T.V. Stand.

I wish MS cared this much about stability! I had more crashes in my first day of owning an Xbox One that my Wii U has had since launch.

I could never get TVii to work right anyway. No loss to me.

meh, didint like the app that much, but RIP TVII 2012-2015

In the UK, the Youview box (made by Alan Sugar off of The Apprentice) is quite a cool idea - it was maybe what tvii was trying to emulate

Basically it's a TV guide that you can scroll backwards with, and if you click on a show that's already ended it links you immediately to a version of that show on the appropriate online player, all automatic

I think like Miyamoto said, by the time Wii U came out they had underestimated the rise of tablet computing - and it figures they did the same with the kinds of services tablets and set top boxes can now offer

No harm in innovating and trying something though.

If TVii worked, it would have been pretty neat and a valid selling point for the console.

But it didn't work, at least not for me. I wish it had, but since that support never happened it's impossible to miss now that it's gone.

Now we just wait for update 5.5.NX to put the Wii U out of its misery.

Seriously though, no more feature rich updates coming for Wii U any more that's for sure.

TVii was the best game I ever played on my Wii U. I spent many hours on it, and the boss battles were always challenging. The final level was insanely tough, but I managed to get through it with some help from friends.

I'm kidding. I'm not in America so never used TVii. It's a shame that Nintendo didn't make proper use out of the TVii idea.

250mb to remove an app?

@Kirk I think most people knew from the start that we in Europe would never get to use the Tvii function.

There are so many different TV and Satellite providers in the UK alone, it would have been a near impossible task to create agreements with all of them. If you then factor in all the other providers in Europe, it was a no brainer. I do not know what made Nintendo think it was even a possibility.

And it never got around to that DVR feature, the one thing I was looking forward to most on TVii. Well at least we still get the stability.

The Wii U OS is garbage why does it take AGGGEEEEESSSS to goto the Wii U menu why does it take AGGGGEEEESSSSSS to goto the system settings etc etc i cant think of a single device out there thats so stupidly slow as the Wii U, its a mess.

Good riddance. I never used it, and it was rather pointless. My TV already has a guide function, and I don't have my Wii U on while I'm watching TV. I do one or the other.

@akaDv8R "I do not know what made Nintendo think it was even a possibility."

Not really thinking things through maybe; which to me sums up why Wii U was already a troubled system right from the start and why it's not doing very well as we type.

Nintendo just didn't think things through properly when developing the Wii U, imo. It could and should have been so much more as far as I'm concerned, but as was the case with the Wii, it never really managed to live it to its full potential. Luckily for the Wii this never affected its sales, because Nintendo managed to get one extremely important thing right with the Wii and that was creating experiences right out the gate that truly sold what the system was all about, but the Wii U hasn't been so fortunate.

Games like Super Mario Maker and Art Academy: Atelier are only now starting to show what the system is really capable of and how much fun you can have with a system that has a "GamePad", and if there had been a bunch of games and experiences like this at launch, along with a whole bunch of small but imo necessary tweaks and fixes to the core system too, I really think the Wii U could have been winning the console war this generation.

It's about time,TVii wasn't a great idea,but I'll give props to Nintendo for trying

@Kirk Well, Microsoft promised the same kind of service with the Xbox ONE, but have not been able to deliver. Likely because of exactly the same reasons as Nintendo.

RIP little, under-used system feature. You will surely be forgotten.

@gatorboi352 Actually, that's not true. There's still the new membership service that's coming in the fall that'll require major system updates for both Wii U and 3DS.

@SuperCharlie78 lol

Alas. A moment of silence for Nintendo Tvii, the sickly and premature. And the stillborn Tivo app that never happened...

Rip Tvii... Now where is my custom Wii U themes?

After the update, I didn't even realize that it was gone. I just figured it was strictly a stability update

My stable WiiU can now fit 3 horses in it. Who would've thought...

@akaDv8R Microsoft delivered in a bunch of other ways, and also addressed a whole bunch of early issues and complaints people had with the Xbox One, such that this one misstep wasn't enough to turn the system into a flop. If only Nintendo listened to and addressed those early complaints with Wii U.

@Kirk We were talking specifically about delivering TV functions, and like Nintendo, Microsoft failed. No argument, they failed on delivering what they promised would be a feature.

I like how Nintendo is removing useless apps. Unlike Apple who add useless apps every update. I can name at least a dozen apps that I don't use on my iPhone that are default apps that you can't remove.

@akaDv8R Well; who responded to who first?

If we re-read my first post . . . we can see I was clearly talking about both the failure to deliver the TVii functionality and the failure to deliver in many other areas too.

So my view is that we are talking about more than just TV functionality here; or at least I certainly am.

I think the point I'm making here is that Nintendo dropped just one too many balls, as I see it, which is why it's in the situation it's in with Wii U; and Microsoft dropped just few enough that the Xbox One is doing just fine.

@akaDv8R honest question: where did Microsoft fail in regards to TV and OneGuide? Is it something specifically a UK/Europe thing? I don't use OneGuide much, but the TV, streaming and accompanying voice functions work extremely well and is periodically updated, based on if a provider does channel realignments. At least here in the US.

@Sir_JBizzle Yes, in the US maybe, like Nintendo did. You only have a few providers of TV. Europe litteraly has hundreds, and would be impossible to get them all on board.

@Kirk The biggest mistake Nintendo made, was not making the Wii U x86 architecture. If rumours from AMD are to be believed, it is something they are finally rectifying with what ever NX turns out to be.

@akaDv8R Ahhh gotcha. Thanks. I've always knew of the provider and licencing headaches you guys have out there, I just assumed MS had that all sorted out. Or at least mostly. the biggest problem with TVii in the US, while super slow, they never followed through with the complete remote functions. It never fully worked with my equipment and when I changed cable providers, they never updated it to work at all with my new cable box. So TVii was pretty half-baked here in the US.

Of course Wii U never gained traction in the first place, because of all it had going against it, some of it their fault, some of it third parties and some of it consumers. (we all know the never ending vicious circles between the three) So in some ways it's quite understandable that they never really poured resources into intitives that wasn't really going anywhere...

@akaDv8R Well I certainly think that was another one of the many mistakes they made.

When I first saw the TVii unveiling, I thought, "that's an interesting set of ideas, but there's no way it gets the support it needs to be as good as it seems in this video."

I was very right. The all-in-one box is not really what I want my console to be. I'd rather have it be very good at gaming, to the exclusion of all else. If the effort that went into developing and promoting TVii (I do like the name, actually) had made one more solid launch game, it could have made a huge difference.

If you're going to do a TV or multimedia service, the smart thing is to just set up a partnership with some company that does that better than you.

Who needs Tvii when you have Stability?

I actually really liked the prospect of TVii - unfortunately it didn't pan out. I used it extensively at first, I'd plop down pull up the movies section - it recommended movies to me pretty dang well actually and they were across the baord - live TV, netflix and hulu. Then netflix and hulu support was taken out and it was just live TV. I don't have cable but if I did I'd use the TV Guide button which takes all of 2 seconds to access. Booting up Nintendo TVii just to see what's on the tube isn't worth my time.

The interactive element was AWESOME. I imagine not every one is in to sports but watching the game with the Gamepad on the side, guessing the next hit, pass, etc was really fun. The stats on play were also very useful. All in all however that was eventually the only reason to use it. I have few friends who watch sports so it didn't get used that often.

Sad how it turned out. I thought it was a creative tool to add to Nintendo's otherwise featureless system. Clarification - it has games but there aren't a whole lot of non game things to do. In fact outside of video streaming there really isn't anything.

And still no folders.
Thanks, again, Nintendo.

@kensredemption Actually, they've been available for almost a year! What's worse, is I just realized I've actually used them!
Ugh... my brain sometimes...

@kensredemption My brain hasn't been corrupted by that particular children's cartoon, so no, not really!

The Wii U OS needs a complete rewrite from scratch. It has a full 1GB to play with yet it can only multitask one thing at a time? I can see were the resources are wasted - the ARM processor the Wii U OS runs on is wasting too much rendering the silly 3D ground.

@kensredemption Yeah your making alot of sense with that comment.

my wii u is so stable that a earthquake will do it no harm

stability powah!

I was using TVii for quite a while when my main TV in our living room kicked the bucket. When I brought our second TV downstairs is when all the problems started and some of the functions no longer worked. Well mainly on the TV side of things. That's what I get for buying a no name brand 42 inch TV 10 years ago. So I just stopped using the function all together.

Well say goodbye to your WII U. It won't last any much longer. Glad they are releaseing a new console. I wonder if xbox or sony will bring out an other console in a few years. The games are getting more and more demanding