Nintendo Wii U And Day One Patch

The Nintendo Wii U is finally released, and on day one there is a mandatory firmware update for the Wii U system. That shouldn't be really a surprise, but this firmware update is no ordinary update.
First, this update is about 5GB large! Yes you heard me, it's that large! (I may have jumped the gun about  the actual size of the update. I've been reading about how people were complaining about the size and how long it took them to download it that I didn't really do my research on the actual size of the day one update. The actual size of the Wii U update is more like 1-1.3GB large and not the super large 5GB that allot of people are crying wolf about. There is also a second update and not listening to the people crying wolf, the second update is around 500MB large.)

Because of this large updates, some people have jump the gun and have turned off their Wii U thinking that their console have frozen during the update, but instead not realizing that the update is large and will take some time to download. These people who turned off their Wii U in the middle of the update have "bricked" their Wii U system, and the only way of fixing it is to get an exchange at the store they purchased their Wii U.

This firmware update adds allot of the Wii U's online features. One might ask, why wasn't these features already installed in the first place? Apparently, the online features wasn't done, until the very last moment of the Wii U release.

I know from my PS3 that I don't like large mandatory updates. It takes time away from playing the games. Hearing about this day one mandatory firmware update for the Wii U is very heart breaking since I've been a big fan of Nintendo since the NES back since 1985.

However, I have been reading a promising rumor that is currently going around the web that their may be a way to run the firmware update in the background.
When turning on the Wii U and getting the prompt to update for the first time, click the cancel button instead. The rumor is that when canceling the update will not really cancel the update but instead download in the background while the person uses and plays with their game normally.
Allot of Wii U users have said that it has worked for them, but it is all hearsay, and I couldn't find real prof that it does work.