Nintendo continues to slowly release details on some of the functionality Wii U will gain once gamers access its Day One update. As we previously revealed, key features like Miiverse and Wii U's backwards compatibility will only be available once this patch is downloaded. Today Nintendo showcased more of these elements in a video. Most of it was previously known, but the footage does provide more context than we previously had, plus actually shows things like Miiverse operating on a Japanese Wii U.

Check it out. We're still waiting to receive the update stateside, so this is currently the latest information we have about these new programs.

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