Lucky for me that I never buy Digital Releases! I suggest, if you don't want an External Drive, to just buy the Physical Copy.

I don't think that's too hard of a thing.

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"The digital version of Ni no Kuni requires you to have a new hard drive for your Playstation 3 Super Slim 12 Gb , Sony has cautioned."

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Even if there was a drive bay, even if it was empty in retail units, people would still complain about having to buy an extra thing.

Not including a component which itself hardly ever lowers in price (capacities just get larger instead) was a good move, and this will make it much easier to drop the price of the thing to that magical sub-99-space-credits point when the situation calls for it.

Will someone please explain why Nintendo keeps getting picked on for this.  MS makes a 4GB 360 and Sony makes a 12GB PS3, both of which would have to be upgraded to download a game like this.  Nintendo decided to let people use external HD's instead for expanded storage which workes just fine and is far cheaper than a hard drive pgrade for the 360 and for the most part no more than an upgrade for the PS3.  So...what's your problem with it?

Most people don't download full games anyways.  Why should everyone have to pay for a built in hard drive if most people would never use most of the space anyways.  To me, Nintendo's decision on this was a good one.  Also for me, we have 4 different external hard drives in my house, so it saved me money.

This is the only thing i hate about nintendo, it pissed me off about the wii too, the consoles cheap, but then buying 3x Nunchucks and 3xWiimotes so me and my brothers could play co-op, then a couple of years later the release wii motion plus, that costs 40 pound aswell! All these additions you need to buy to the basic console makes the price of it skyrocket.

Probably costs more than a PS3 + 3 controllers

Wii U supports MicroSD cards right? How big in capacity are they these days? And couldn't I use one of them instead of a HDD to install games/apps/etc? How much would the cost of a bigger capacity MicroSD card be when compared to a 500gb HDD?

Oh, someone will always complain, and I think that not having an HD in base models is not a big deal. There is people that will never need to digitally download full retail games.

As I said in my answer to KungKras, and it looks like you're agreeing, Nintendo made a cost/feature compromise. Let's not that pretend that it isn't detrimental to some customers only because MS ripped off people with proprietary HDs, or Sony ripped off people with proprietary memory cards. There was a way to be more customer-friendly here.

i got a 1tb hdd from amazon for $50, so for those ppl who want alot of extra storage space the price isnt a factor either. it just seems the ppl who dont like nintendo or the ppl who just wana hate on them because they want too own one of there systems but dont wana show it in public.
this isnt a issue at all, why because tekken tag 2 is a 17gb download for the ppl who go digital . so thats a 5 gb difference.
i will keep saying this till the day i stop gaming, ppl just need to enjoy the systems they like and play the games , and stop being a bunch of imature morons.

I think even Penny could come up with better logic...

the number of people who buy digitally is to big to be ignored, digital downloads are getting bigger, accept that. its BY FAR the biggest way of selling games on PC and digital sales are growing on each platform. its not one game as "proof", its an example, and i also stated one game on teh 3DS and ubisofts entire library of games on the vita. how the hell is that just one game?