Okay so Every time I bought a game I had to constantly sit through that intolerably annoying update screen. I don't know why they would make a game system unable to just start a new game when you first get it but always make you update even if it was a brand new game that you got on launch day right from the store, but whatever. Anyway, I wanted to start fresh on my ZombiU game (because it was getting pretty littered with all my dead survivors being listed) so I wiped everything ZombiU from the Wii U and started new. Apparently my internet had gone down during this time briefly because it tried to update and couldn't and, worst of all, then wouldn't let me play the game AT ALL.
After the internet came back up I updated the game and everything wroked fine, but then I got worried, so I deleted the entire files of a few other Wii U games, shut off the internet completely (as in deleted the wifi network from the Wii U's memory) and lo and behold not a SINGLE Wii U game would let me start up without updating first!! Of all the missteps Nintendo has made that I can overlook, this is a pretty major flaw! Are you seriously telling me I am unable to play games for the first time unless I am connected to the internet?! Why on earth would you make a console that REQUIRED internet access to even START the game for the first time? Obviously if you want in game connectivity, spot pass, miiverse and all that other stuff then great, obviously you need internet, but if I bring my console somewhere where there is no internet, or say I simply don't want my console to be connected to the internet anymore, I just am not allowed to ever get a new game ever? That's pretty ridiculous!
Please tell me there is some setting I am overlooking, because if the Wii U is unable to function as a GAME system unless it's connected to the internet, this is an unbeleivable stupid move on Nintendo's part! Come on! Donwloadable content, update patches, virtual console, miiverse, sure, all of that makes sense to require internet access, but I cannot play a new game out of the box unless I update it? OMG!! That is pure lunacy!!