Will modded consoles get bricked? No. That's a horrible business practice.
This update probably took Nintendo 20 minutes tops to code and it patches a huge vulnerability in the system that allows people to pirate and play hundreds of dollars of games for free. Imagine if you owned Nintendo...
+1 Legend of Zelda: Windwaker HD (They perfected everything from the original and made it better. Plus it's my favorite Zelda besides OoT).
+1 Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (Just great).
+1 Smash 4 (Self explanatory, one of the greatest fighting games).
+1 Mario Kart 8 (Where I blow off...
Yeah. Seems like other people have it working. I've never used Haxchi but after installing it for 5.5.2 it's more clean than BrowserHax anyways. I upgraded both :)
Sure, you're not wrong. But don't act like Smash 4 isn't a selling point of the Wii U. I know people who bought a Wii U and the only game they own is Smash 4 for the competitive circuit. I'm just surprised they didn't do this to BotW either, unless they plan to.
Plus.. they lose digital sales to.
On my main console I installed Haxchi and updated to 5.5.2 and am having absolutely no problems.
On my second console, I cannot force Smash to play at all on 5.5.1E. I forced the update, run CFW, and Smash refuses to run unless the system update is present.. not sure what to do here. Can you...
I willingly updated to 5.5.2. I was on 5.5.1 using BrowserHax. I installed Haxchi and went through with the update, everything is working perfect. Inevitably a new browser exploit will come along so I'm not too worried about it.
Smash is working fine online via Haxchi on 5.5.2 I can confirm...
without pubg popping off, fortnite wouldn't add battle royale, and call of duty wouldn't go even shittier than it did before because of blackout, warzone and dmz