Wii U Receives First System Firmware Update Since 2017

Exactly what everyone has been complaining about with the Wii U, not enough stability and usability!

Seriously though it is hard to imagine anyone who is still using a Wii U that has been waiting for a system update.

Wii U all the way, baby. Just beat Calamity Ganon again, about 20 minutes ago as a matter of fact. With all the great games for the Wii U, I'm not feeling left out without a Switch just yet.

Better get those data miners in there. Think the last time they updated the Wii U firmware, they discovered the first hints of Miiverse ending. Hopefully with the Online Subscription coming, they won't decide to give the Wii U servers or eShop the axe....

they said it was dead.
they said it would never get an update
but look who's laughing at us, now! the Wii U all grown up with it's new stability update!

@JayJ just this morning I was booting mine up to play Other M and I thought aloud “I really need more stability in my life!”. Suddenly, Reggie appeared in the corner of my kitchen door window, tapped the glass to get my attention, then winked at me. When I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, he disappeared into the ether, likely continuing his magical journey to bring wishes of stability to other gamers.

Huh. I was actually playing mine with relatives this weekend, and decided to update the firmware. Now there's another one, out of the blue.

@HobbitGamer Gotta love Nintendo, all they want to do is add stability to people's lives. Reggie is like Santa when it comes to it.

@HobbitGamer I hope he does that for my 3DS. It’s not near stable enough

@JayJ Tell that to my little brother, he's always complaining about it being slow and I'm just sitting there with my Switch like "Well that's unfortunate".

Just last month, Sony shutdown Motostorm Apocalypse on PS3. I hope Nintendo isn't the next to start pulling plugs!

There must be some kind of secret hidden in this update. When they launch the subscriptions, the secret will be revealed?

@SMW

I wouldn't worry about that. Sony is known for axing their servers way earlier than any other company. They axed Gravity Rush 2's servers after just one year. Motorstorm actually had a long tenure though.

"If it dies, it dies."

I still use mine for Smash and Virtual Console.

Stability, a word that has many meanings, for some is just enhancing the user experience, for others is the gate of the realm Reggie, a realm that no matter what console you have stability is for everyone regardless of race, beliefs, and country my heart has been moved to tears THE STABILITY IS REAL PEOPLE ITS REAL!!!!

"to enhance the user experience".

Nintendo is so cynical... But Wii U is awesome.

Keeping fighting, little Wii U. You're still the best console ever!

The government must be using Nintendo technology to keep nuclear reactors stable. There’s no other logical explanation.

With the timing of the update it has to be somehow related to the Switch Online service. If not, that’s a really strange coincidence

The Wii U is so painfully clunky and slow now after playing the Switch for so long.

That's clear that Nintendo don't want that you use an exploit on the Wii U. So, they invoke the almighty stability but it's just another way to close a backdoor.

This timing feels like it may be the beginning of the end for the Wii U's servers, I hope I'm wrong.

huh? that thing still around

I was enjoying my Wii U today, and I saw the update! I was excited that it may AT LEAST remove the Miiverse image. No such luck though. Maybe its to stamp out some hackers that don’t feel like paying for the Nintendo Online service on Switch. Take away ROMs and modded Smash enjoyment or something. I don’t know, all my stuff is legit though. I recently enjoyed some Metroid Prime Hunters from a MyNintendo coupon. I’m one of those that has had the system since launch, and has so many purchases that even with a partially filled external hard drive... I’m still forced to delete games. Lol. Skunkware games and Nindie demos had to go.

I can see a Healing Vision from Wii U.
It still alive !

Found a new security loophole to close, eh, Nintendo?

My Wii U is still plugged in. There was still things I want to do with it. But I hardly touch it. Still gets more use than my PS3 or PS4. lol

I still use my Wii U. In fact, it is updating right now!!!
I actually used it a lot this Labour Day weekend and enjoyed every minute of it.

While waiting for the new Smash to come out, I'm going through a bit of a revival with my Wii U, dusting off a few games in my system's backlog (Wind Waker HD, Darksiders 1, Xenoblade Chronicles).

One of the only Nintendo consoles I didn't buy.

Stop worrying guys, “stability” is code word for “we are targeting homebrew.” Nothing more.

Occasionally playing the many games I haven't beaten yet,
a few stages in Kirby and the Rainbow Course and New Super Luigi U at a time, and of course still using it for Super Mario Maker, Smash Bros., Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors, Youtube and Netflix.

The last games I completed 100% were Captain Toad and DKC Tropical Freeze and I recently beat Super Mario Maker 100-Man on Super Expert for the first time!

@HobbitGamer: Sounds like the start of a decent Twilight Zone spinoff!

"It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between weakness and stability, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the...Nintendo Zone."

Been playing Wonderful 101 recently.

Even with my Switch I still have my Wii U plugged in. I still love the thing unconditionally. Even when I get my PS4 this Black Friday, I'll still just keep it plugged in because that thing really is great.

I don't know but I think Wii U would need a little more than a stability update to enhance the user experience at this point.

Haven't turn my Wii U on since I completed Tokyo Mirage Session #FE and Paper Mario: Color Splash, hopefully Nintendo port all their Wii U stuff to Switch before they discontinued the Wii U. I really cherish those great Wii U first party games so much and if they all had Switch ports, then the Wii U would had rest easy with Darksider I & II, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Need For Speed Most Wanted U, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 at least.

very sneaky Nintendo. Keeping the homebrew community at bay for a dead console eh?

Omg. Why doesn't Nintendo just come clean and give us the truth? This update is meant to kill homebrew and piracy.

@retro_player_22 I'm still holding my breath for Darksiders 1 and 2 on switch though. 😊

I’m not a fan of the indie games scene. I had a Switch but didn’t really play it much. For some odd reason I even prefer Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U. 🤷‍♀️
I’ve switched back to the Wii U now and I’m glad I did. I play it all the time still.

@Geeks4Life That explains why my permanent homebrew installation didn't even get wiped after I updated.

This update was purely for GDPR reasons, no joke. Even though the US and JP consoles got updates too, it mainly affected EUR consoles.

Love the Wii u. I still play it more than my switch. OCD backlog

I better start buying a VC game a month or something to avoid a mega buy out if th eshop is closed down. Although I don't expect that for a few more years.

Need to plug the thing in first though.

@JayJ Me for one.

Uh-oh, I think I forgot to turn off auto-update... homebrew ruined, was playing Tokyo Mirage offscreen.

Yes, the Wii U is making a comeback! Clearly, this is a sign that we're about to get the sequel I want more than anything else in life... Devil's Fourth!

I still play Breath of the Wild on my Wii U, and occasional bouts of Mario Kart 8 and Nintendo Land, and I was feeling a bit left out with all the stability the 3DS and Switch has been receiving!!

Anyone ever spot Wii U Axiom Verge in the stores? It was planned by Badlands but i never saw it yet!

@FX102A
Haha same here man, and I've seen many people working through their OCD Wii U backlog. I've never really OCD'd any backlog, but with Wii U it's really bad. I wonder why it is with this specific console o_O

Aww I miss the blue Nintendo Life colours.
Anyways, hopefully this sorts out the problems with Netflix, but i doubt it

Of course this update is aiming homebrew. With a new paid retro service they'll try to shut down every single possible not allowed emulation.

Just when I'm thinking about unlock my Wii U (to inject wii, GameCube and VC games). But I'm at my parents' and I don't know if my autoupdate is off. I'll discover it at Sep. 11th 🤔

Picked Up a Wii U and a bunch of great games 2 months ago for peanuts... love it... online multiplayer for games like Mario Kart 8 still awesome. The wii U lives on.
When online multiplayer stops for Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon and when I finish all my games... so... in another 3 years.. I might look at getting a switch.
I'm a budget gamer that always picks up the 2nd latest system

Nintendo should add some new features and a game or two for free to show that they care about their die-hard fans that they let down with a short-lived console. But well Nintendo got other priorities. My guess is that the update fix some bugs and exploits that could make Wii U run free games.

Spent a chunk of the weekend in Nintendo Land, and the lack of stability was severely affecting my ability to Octopus Dance at a competitive level. Maybe now I can finally take my skills to the 2018 Octopus Street Dance Finals in Munich. I’m sure I’ll be still be out in the first round, but at least I won’t be able to blame an unstable Wii U.

In all honesty, I did genuinely have to recalibrate the gamepad between each round to earn the star. Still got to Star Pikmin Adventure and I can put it back in the backlog for another 5 years...

@joey302 said "Anyone ever spot Wii U Axiom Verge in the stores? It was planned by Badlands but i never saw it yet!"

15th of October apparently...

@Sculptor I still haven’t finished a load of titles but really W1010 is the only one I have any desire to go back to. But honestly I never have the drive. My biggest bug with the Wii U was its slow boot up and how everything took ages like the eshop, loading, start-up, etc. Such a far cry with the Switch. Last time I started playing my Switch whilst waiting for the boot up.

@Cobalt I think i still have mine preordered with Amazon Spain. Need to go check. Ironically opened a drawer today to discover my Vita copy actually did come through. Honestly though that game disappointed me. Totally failed to grab me and the colours were so one note drab.

They are still updating this thing? Its like dragging an old bag of garbage out and spraying it with air freshner and saying it is new:p!

Got a WiiU for my kids this Christmas and it's been brilliant! The whole family can play together with the great range of multiplayer games on offer. Games are cheep and the catalogue - while not massive is top quality - and it even plays Wii games so we can access that whole catalogue as well.

I wanted to get my kids into Nintendo early because their pals and cousins started getting PS4's and Xbox's and they were getting into the idea. Watched them all sat playing Forza together on afternoon and thought - they'd be having so much more fun if it was Mario Kart. Turns out I was right. Had a bunch over the other day and we had a great time playing 5 player Nintendoland.

We'll get a Switch eventually - they're already asking about it - but I showed them all the brilliant games we don't have for Wii U and it did the job. My youngest is 3 so I'm not ready to let them have a portable console yet.

The Switch looks amazing but the Wii U is the perfect family console if you have younger kids.

Wii U - one of the best consoles ever. In some time people will miss this console and prices will be very high.
There is no console like wii u where you can plan on tv and gamepad, there are so many controllers and accesories, and what is more important you can play nes, snes, gameboy advance, nintendo 64, turbographx, ds, wii and wii u games, also balance board games! There are so many great games to play.
Yesterday I played castlevania 3 (nes), dracula x ,contra and wild guns (snes), pokemon pinball (GBA), mario 64 and wave race (N64) and mario kart (wii u). All games available in seconds at will and with savestates. I own almost all great virtual console games + wii and wii u games and this machine is great and provides fun for years of gaming.
Can't see another console (even switch) giving all that.

@ninty

The WiiU will go up in price but i dont think it will be because people will miss it. It will go up in price because it will be Nintendo's last dedicated home console.

This opinion might be unpopular here but its really how i see things from my own perspective of the WiiU.

There really is a reason why it only sold 13m global sales in 5 years, I've owned every Nintendo console, i could only put up with the WiiU for 6 to 8 months before selling it to a friend (who also didn't like it)... Most people won't miss that, plus much of the experience that was on the WiiU was also on the 3DS to a better standard. If you include the games coming on the Switch that were on the WiiU... The experience the WiiU gave can easily be gotten elsewhere.

I do admit i want certain HD Zelda games to be ported from WiiU to Switch and Mario 3d World too. But aside from this. I miss nothing else about it.

I am grateful for the WiiU though, i don't think the Switch would have come to be what it is without Nintendo having experienced the WiiU.

Thank god, I was starting to get worried

To me big thing in wii u is that i can play all these great games in a seconds on 1 console. I have other nintendo consoles but found myself rebuying some games to have them on wii u just for convinience (and save states). Wii U on it's own has great games but if you add virtual console there is no console to compare. And these virtual console games are much better than newer games. The other thing is you can buy wii and wii u games now very cheaply. Switch games in comparison are very expensive right now.

Personally I have not get the update yet on the EU version of the console. A few notes from me regarding the system: I play everyday on the Wii U. I still have some titles to enjoy on it like the 3D World, Yoshi's Wolly World, Watchdogs, Zombie U, Mass Effect III and the BOW. Calculating quickly all the aforementioned games will give me about 500 hours of gaming. I do not see any reason at all to move on to the Switch, perhaps some third party games and the upcoming Pokemon Eevve but seriously I am totally satisfied with the U and I bought it quite late in September 2015. Lately I enjoyed Bayonetta 2, the Wind Waker HD, the Twillight Princess HD, Xenoblades Chronicles X, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush. Too much quality for such an underated console. Probably I will not even buy the Switch but the next console after it. On a last note I have not try also the Skyward Sword on the Wii so add this too on my Wii U-to-play list!

Useless things for Nintendo to do in 2018:
1. Close a couple rom sites that will ultimately have zero effect.
2. Update an old console with stability.

The hacks are what makes the Wii U one of Nintendo's best consoles and worth picking up in 2018.
Play NES, SNES, Gameboy Classic/Color/Advance, DS, N64, Wii, Gamecube and Wii U games all on one console with HDMI output and on the tablet. Even other consoles. Just hook up an HDD and you're set.

Leave it to Nintendo to patch a dead console. Unlike Sega which basically handed the homebrew community some tools after the Dreamcast died.

@BigKing yep this is another reason why i just don't bother with it. If i knew home brew could thrive on the WiiU id have probably picked one up for cheap second hand just for that. (Even though i couldn't actually play them all the time due to lack of TV on my boat).

But these updates and generally Nintendo's stance on such things means home brew on WiiU is about as likely as a million £s falling from the sky onto my head.

@Razer
I have enjoyed my Wii U a good bit, but there have been a lot of issues as well. They did so many things wrong with that machine it ain't even funny.

From the outset, you couldn't even get it to work without downloading a massive firmware update. And you couldn't get it online to do that without looking for Nintendo's online guide on how to manually type in your WiFi information.
Everything surrounding the launch was a disaster. And that's not even touching on the actual design choices of the system and its menus.

When most department stores had stopped carrying the system after a full year of neglect and confusion on Nintendo's behalf, it became obvious that Nintendo didn't even mean to save the system.

Sony at least went in there and changed EVERYTHING about the PS3, in order to save their image, when it did poorly the first year.

I think the Wii U will have a very limited retro-value down the road. The few games that really utilized it well were not ones people really talk about. It's noisy, bulky, unpleasant to hold, impractical to move around, and needs a million wires.

That said, you're right that it's Nintendo's last dedicated home system. That, and the fact that there is relatively few of them, might add to the value.

Meh, glad I deleted my update folder 😜

Until Tokyo Mirage and Twilight Princess get ports, the Wii U will stay wired up under the TV.

Still have Wii U connected to my TV, still play some awesome games, GamePad is so comfy & works for 5+ hours with an extended battery, always prefer it with an Off-TV mode to Switch when it's possible.

I'm disappointed if this blocks homebrew and the like, which I imagine is the goal here, but Nintendo is well within its rights and naturally wants to stop those exploiting it's ips. Brats in the comments here whining entitlement.

@Pod i really actually couldn't of said it better. You nailed all the problems on the head.

But yeah based on the Nintendo's last home console thing... A boxed unwrapped WiiU would sell for stupid money in 10-15 years time... Just for the collection of it.

By stupid money, i genuinely believe it would sell for thousands of £s

Long live the King Wii U

@Razer Just pick one up and disable updates. There aren't any new releases any way that require the latest firmware.

I didn't buy a boxed one though, picked up a second hand for about €150 with a bunch of games. There is a ton of homebew. CPS2 arcade emulators, Mario Kart Arcade runs and so on.

I'm still using mine. Just picked up Lego Dimensions actually. My Wii U will be used for a good while yet - so many games on backlog at the minute. Lego games aren't doing me any favours - none are 100% yet.....ggggrrrrrrrrr

People have very little reason to remember the Wii U.

Meanwhile, I sit here remembering how it made Harvest Moon 64 convenient to play after a couple of decades, as well as its first time being legally available digitally. A game they claimed impossible to run, but they just told us that to throw us off the surprise. It's unarguably the best Virtual Console game it received.

If possible, I'd love for the Wii U to get Rondo of Blood before they stop Virtual Console releases.

@Pazuzu666
Looking at GBATemp, if you have Homebrew and Haxchii installed, just update and re-activate Haxchii using Homebrew. So that's good news.

Gotta say, my wife and kids and even myself play the Wii U more than the Switch, probably because of all the virtual console games and the fact that we own a massive Wii and even Wii U game library. Other than that, I just hope the store doesn't disappear yet...if the Wii's store is still going on until January of this coming year, then I hope they keep Wii U's alive (still a few virtual console games we'd like to get). Other than that, the system wasn't the best of nintendo's world, but I definitely see it (probably about 20 years down the road) being a costly system to try and buy...even certain games. Games like Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, I see being a big-priced game to try and buy down the road, only because it was a disappointment. Dreamcast is pretty expensive now (including many games), as well as other consoles, Virtual Boy, 32X, Sega CD, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar and even Gamegear. Heck, many Gamecube games (which is still my favorite nintendo console) are expensive to try and get!

Retro value may be gone in the console, and there's not many retail games available for it, but the console itself will be a collector's item down the road...just will take a while to get there. The only problem I see with it, is the pad dying before the console.

@Razer
I could fully image that!

It's depressing checking eBay at the moment though. A used Wii U premium with Nintendoland (unironically the best partygame the system ever got) goes for 55DKK, which is like 7 quid, or 9 dollars.

-_-

@Pod that's all used though.. Which is understandable still. That is real cheap still lol.

If you look on Amazon at new WiiU's... They're all upwards of £400 for brand new ones.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/ol/B015DXF2JC/ref=olp_tab_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

By comparison new Wiis are like £200.

A brand new GameCube would set you back a small fortune. If you can actually find one.

@Pod At that price, I'd assume there's something faulty with the console. Bricked by an update, Gamepad won't sync to the console, Gamepad not included, etc.

The Switch being Wii U port heavy devalues the Wii U significantly, but not to those extremes.

@Frendo
Lots of truth.
The eShop was a lot better than the Wii Shopping Channel, but still slow. And slower than that was the general interface. And it was hopelessly convoluted as well. A far cry from the speed and ease that sold the Wii.

The crummy indie games really scared a lot of people away from the eShop too.
When it became obvious to Nintendo that the big publishers didn't want to touch their system, they opened the floodgates for the "garage devs" that they had been insulting only a few years earlier during the WiiWare days.
They let them buy dev kits at unreasonable prices, and let them self-publish at unreasonable levels of software completion. Though they did also start some very interesting initiatives during those days.

My personal favorite games on the system were Nintendoland, Affordable Space Adventures, Mario Kart 8, and Knytt Underground. And two of those had no benefit of the system. The first two would be tough to pull off elsewhere in an out-of-the-box fashion, without them breaking completely, but it'd be nice to see them again.

MiiVerse was a cute experiment that I kind of forget about. I enjoyed it for a bit with the drawings and everything, but its downsides became apparent quickly. Like so many other things on Wii and Wii U, It was NOT video games, and not Nitendo's strong suit, and I really belive the Switch is better off without them.
Which games were dependant on MiiVerse though? And in what ways? It sounds interesting, but I didn't play anything like that.

@Razer
Aye, I always wanted a spice colored one, but it's becoming a worse and worse investment.

@Cobalt awesome thx!

@Grumblevolcano
Sure, there was only a few listings like that. So they might be gimped in various ways. Most are about ten times that.

@JazzyPone Yes. 5 minutes after I wrote that comment, It came to my attention that homebrew is still safe.

@Petriebird This is what I've decided to do. Whatever system has just been replaced is the one I will buy. Games are a lot cheaper, the systems nowadays will be more than powerful enough and I will know what games are good or bad.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

But, but, but Nintendo fanboys all say that Nintendo's done with Wii U, because it was the next Virtual Boy, despite selling like 100x as many systems, and like 1,000x times as many games. They also said the eshop was ending on it, that Switch was only its successor, that Wii U was finished, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Which is why Nintendo fanboys are some of the worst people on the planet...

Today's Switch threads? 20 posts max. WiiU gets a stability patch, we're on post #94.

How did this thing fail again?

Love the blue NLife for the WU section. I also love, and frequently play my WU. I don't have a Switch yet, may get one this year, or next Summer.

We're already 1, and a half years into the console's life-cycle. Knowing how Nintendo does not try to save failing consoles, has me skeptical of the NS. Also, lots of games I want are also available on other platforms. On top of that, the system, and its accessories are ridiculously expensive. Then add an optional online subscription service to that! Nintendo needs to be willing to take a financial hit on their consoles, and bank on the software moving the hardware.

WU is not perfect, but I enjoy it.

I hope someday smart fans find a way to bring Miiverse back online.

Nintendo needs to add a wifi link (ala Cross play PS4-PS Vita) between the Wii U and Switch. Then boom! Instant (limited) backwards compatibility and access to the huge Virtual Console!

you are sh!tt!ing me, I just did the home-brew channel hack and said, nahhhh, I don't need to turn off the auto-update and DNS routing...

Got the wii u under the bedroom TV. And I love the chunky gamepad. Survives being slept on for a good eight hours (this has happened more than once). And turbografx is to wii u what neogeo is to Switch (ie brill)

@Frendo I think the difference between vc and porting wii u games to switch is this: vc gives you access to very old games for relatively cheap. Some wii u owners may have never played those games before, may not have even been alive when they first released, or may not have played them for many years and no longer have access to them elsewhere. On the other hand, for some wii u owners who also bought a switch, it's not appealing to pay full retail price for a port of a wii u game that you played fairly recently and could still play on the wii u. (Some really want those games portable so I guess it's worth it for them.)

For me, I love having Nintendo's entire back catalogue (well, almost) on one console. I can play (almost) every single metroid and Zelda game there. I also find the gamepad a lot more comfortable than the joycons. I love the wii u. I have a switch but still find myself playing the wii u more.
If you can afford to buy all the latest games and accessories then great, but there's a lot of awesome gaming to be had on the wii u and it can be done quite inexpensively now.

@PAppleyard @Petriebird I'm sort of the same. It's sooooo much cheaper, and there are so many amazing games from the last 30 years, you'll never run out of stuff to play.

I do have a switch but have only bought three games so far for it. I generally don't care about getting new games day one and I still have a bunch of games I haven't finished yet on the wii u. It's a great system!

I just don't get these stabilities issues. Does it crashes or freezes? I never got any issues, it may be a little slow but it is the hardware performance I think. Not a freeze problem. I think it is more a piracy protection than anything else.

This is probably to patch the browser exploits that allowed for jail breaking the Wii U. I haven’t done mine, don’t know if I ever will, but as soon as I saw this I pulled the plug on mine to make sure it doesn’t update before I choose to haha

@tedko this is exactly my point. I can play almost all zelda, mario, metroid, castlevania and many more (like advance wars, drill dozer and many many more) on one console. I have so many great quality games on wii u I haven't yet completed (like 100) that I can see myself playing it for years. And biggest problem with switch is there are not so many good games. Actually I would be interested only in mario oddysey. Can't see any other game worth playing when you compare it for example to any castlevania or metroid or mega man which are plenty on wii u. These are very high quality games and cheap.

@Ichiyama Switch is a shovelware swamp. There are a few good exclusives on it but very small amount compared to Wii U. Unfortunately Wii U will be without exclusives soon.

Awww, come on, man. Where's the comedy angle on the stability updates? I'm disappointed.

@ninty Actually I felt even Mario Odyssey did not live up to the hype. You're just running around finding moons everywhere. I had more fun with Mario+Rabbids.

I play Duck Hunt on the Wii U. I don’t have an old school TV laying around, so it’s the only imaginable way I know to play that game. And all the other light gun games from the NES released on the Wii U.

@RainbowGazelle so sweet 😀

Everyone calm down. The new update was purely to add a new privacy notice (so that they dont get sued by the EU) and a few Amazon certificates. All exploits still work. Your Wii U consoles are safe. Emulation still works.

@TJM
Really sounds like the perfect setting for the system.

Have you been playing some Luigi's Ghost Mansion or Mario Chase with the kids? Those, and to some degree AC Sweet Day never fail to rile up even my older friends and family.

@Angelic_Lapras_King They won't let the Wii U die until they announce the next Mario Maker since millions of people still play. It is really the only reason to play online with the Wii U right now. I am waiting for them to announce it for Switch so that I can finally hack my damn Wii U.

@Jokerwolf Except they do have the less features 3DS version as an alternative if the do shut down the Wii U servers and still are making the Switch version.

Millions is probably a little too generous. Under a million maybe but certainly not above the million mark, not for a system like Wii U. And then, how many of those users are 3DS owners exactly?

But as mentioned, the data miners to this update with have some answers, if there are any...

@Angelic_Lapras_King The 3DS version does not allow you to upload your levels online, you can only create share them locally as far as I know. The Switch version is coming and I bet it is in the next Direct.