14 DAY TRIAL // Shigeru Miyamoto, the main game designer working for Nintendo, says that the company is working on a major system update for the Wii U home console which will be launched later during the year, and will fix the most obvious problems that players have been reporting.
The developer is quoted by Game Informer as saying, “We hope to cover a wide range of requests while simultaneously ensuring it’s a very stable update to the system. We think that by this summer, the system is going to be very much improved over how it’s performing currently.”
It seems that the launch of the Wii U was such a monumental undertaking that problems were to be expected and Nintendo is working to make sure that all issues are fixed as soon as possible.
Shigeru Miyamoto adds, “with many of those features, you don’t get a true sense for how they interact or where the advantages and disadvantages lie within the broader framework until you’re able to bring all the components together into a single unified system.”
Nintendo plans to use system updates to improve the overall performance of the Wii U, and gamers can expect to see an improvement in transfer rates between the console and the GamePad controller.
The company offered a firmware update on launch, and it seems that it will continue to deliver big updates rather than answering all user suggestions on the spot.
Shigeru Miyamoto has also recently suggested that it is working on titles which will use two GamePad controllers, to be launched during 2013.
There are also plans to make Near Field Communication an important part of the Wii U experience, allowing gamers to mix virtual and real products.
The device has been selling worse than Nintendo had expected, with less than 5 million expected to get to players before the end of March.