How long have you been sitting on that 1.76 waiting for the exploit eggs to hatch, out of curiosity? Its thing like this that lead to my tirade in the Open Letter... thread as this whole "buy two systems just in case" thing is a very recent invention. Taking the WiiU as an example, hackers held off releasing the exploits they teased firmware after firmware, people bought two machines and then when something did come out the only people left on the "scene" were pirates and thus all of the fun emulation and homebrew potential of such unique hardware was never utilized.
Contrast that say with the Xbox which had an immense and active scene with a great vibe from the jump and the developments came thick and fast. Out of this XBMC was birthed, the pre-Netflix Netflix experience for those with an in home server full of movies as well as a wealth of emulators as the hacks became more and more streamlined and elegant as they pushed the machine far beyond what its official use was. That was an awesome scene and joy to partake in and that's what I feel is so crappy now as the raw power of the platforms is immense as is the connectivity, unique hardware and pool of talented coders. If only those pesky exploiters would stop their douche laden antics we could get it cracking in a timely fashion whilst people were still motivated as live platforms are the ones that garner the best support.
Are you listening?