Wii U's first system software update weighs in at around 1GB, which we should have been able to pipe down in less than five minutes on a 40Mbps fibre connection. As it is, the update took us 62 minutes to acquire in full, with reports from some of up to three hours' waiting time. This bears all the hallmarks of a lack of capacity server-side, something Nintendo should have been prepared for, but even the installation itself isn't exactly swift, taking 11 minutes to apply before the machine restarts. Poor online data throughput applies to game patches too: Nintendo Land's patch took about 20 minutes to download at 3.30pm on a Sunday afternoon, UK time - that would be early morning in the US, where demand is likely to be lower than usual.