Wii Firmware 3.2 now live

It’s time once more to fire up your Nintendo Wii as good ol’ Ninty has let loose another update for your motion-sensing consoles. This one’s a bit from left field, but with Super Smash Bros. Brawl closing in, it’s definitely worth spending the miniscule amount of wait time to get that blue bar all the way across. All the details after the jump!

Heads up, Nintendo Wii owners – it’s that time of the month (or year) again where your Wii’s disc slot glows a bright blue. No, it’s not charging up to fire a bright blue beam of sparkly death at whoever’s in front of it – in fact, it’s just saying that there’s a new firmware update available for you to download, and it wants you to download it right now. Before it fires a bright blue beam of sparkly death at you.

So, what’s in this update? Not much. Here’s the direct changelog from Nintendo:

Wii Menu 3.2

• This update does not affect any prominently-used features or menus; however it does provide some behind the scenes updates that will improve system performance.

That’s not much to go on, is it? However, with the release of a certain first-party game temptingly inching nearer and nearer (read: Super Smash Bros. Brawl), it’s certainly feasible that Nintendo wanted to make sure that the Wii can handle the ridiculous amount of awesome that will be slid into its disc tray come early March. We know we won’t be able to. Updates as we get them!