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ironmanDX said:
Ostro said:
Max King of the Wild said:
 



People shouldn't have to buy extras such as external hardrives to take advantage of the product they spent hundreds on. But if it's no problem for the OP then more power to him


Yeah just like PS3 did it well when it was "new" (20, 40, 60, 80 and forced installs). And the PSV is even better with its memory.

This is like saying "I will never buy an iPhone because I don't want Apple to watch me -- I will get an Android instead!!" lol

Lol, answer that one Max.....


He can't really answer that. He made a mistake by posting in this thread without further thoughts of what could be answered to him. I guess we won't see him again in this thread and even if, he will try do evade somehow. This doesn't mean the memory-solution for WiiU is good but Sony's isn't good in some systems in any way either.



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Mine were horrendous. However, with the last update they sped up and I expect it to continue to get better. I think it had a lot to do with code within the OS and probably how their server farms worked/located.



I downloaded the Resident Evil Revelations Demo yesterday (~600mb) and it took around 10 minutes to download and install. Pretty good I'd say.



superchunk said:
Mine were horrendous. However, with the last update they sped up and I expect it to continue to get better. I think it had a lot to do with code within the OS and probably how their server farms worked/located.

Nowadays you pay for server-farms and connection, namely akamai. Nintendo uses them.



The first update was a bit slowish, but if you buy a system now that should be installed out of the box so no need to worry about that anymore. The rest is fine. It's faster then PS3 in any case.



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it varies depending on whos providing the servers i guess
mostly ok-ish, not too shabby really, dont worry about that



Max King of the Wild said:
wvelting said:
Lelouch_Vi_Brittania said:
Max King of the Wild said:
I don't know about download speeds but going digital only... on 32gigs? Have fun.


I have an external hard drive '-'.


Good answer!  I don't understand why people just don't get it.



People shouldn't have to buy extras such as external hardrives to take advantage of the product they spent hundreds on. But if it's no problem for the OP then more power to him


Yeah right they should spend extra 100 for an overpriced internal hardrive with 1/5 the  size of an external 100$ harddrive MAKES TOTAL SENSE.
Especially since the external harddrive can have music and movies in case you want to use it with a PC or TV with usb port.  And an extra WiiU partition in case you want to use it with the WiiU   while an internal harddrive is bound to the console....


And btw your SHOULDN'T HAVE TO  is nonsense since  going digital is OPTIONAL. You know what that means? Great!



Captain_Tom said:
Cobretti2 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
wvelting said:
Lelouch_Vi_Brittania said:
Max King of the Wild said:
I don't know about download speeds but going digital only... on 32gigs? Have fun.


I have an external hard drive '-'.


Good answer!  I don't understand why people just don't get it.



People shouldn't have to buy extras such as external hardrives to take advantage of the product they spent hundreds on. But if it's no problem for the OP then more power to him


i rather the freedom than micrososft charging me an arm and a leg for oen of their hdd upgrades.

Or get a PS3 with a built in Laptop Hard Drive... LOL yeah that is a positive that you have to buy an external... LOL Nintendo fanboys...Wow!


Sony also sells a 12GB flash version of the PS3.  If you want to buy digital downloads on that, you have to purchase a 2.5" notebook drive and install that.  Not a lot different than the Wii U....LOL Sony fanboys...Wow!...now mods, I was just going along with his reply....



Lelouch_Vi_Brittania said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
I have a good internet connection and I've had no problems. The downloads are the same as anything else. Plus, now that the OS is almost finished you can download while doing other things or with the system off.


It's as fast as the PC? that's all I need to know.


I have a 1000 mb/s and the connection was like something from the 90´s, I haven´t tried since i updated though so it could be better now.



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Max King of the Wild said:
orniletter said:
walsufnir said:

The 12 GB ps3-super-slim says hello...


The hypocrisity of some people in this forum is just baffling, let´s wait how he will weasle himself out of this !

Edit: Too late, Haha

No hypocrisy. No weasling. walsufnir's post was intentionally misleading. But you go convince yourself otherwise.


You are the one that convince your self your stupidity has convinced anybody.

How can you spin a positive thing to a bad thing unless you are trolling?

Let me spell it out to you,

On xbox you have to pay overprices for a hard drive

On PS3 you had to pay 599 and then still had to pay for a new HDD cause the old ones weren´t enough.

On WiiU you only pay for what you need, it save you money that you can spend on games instead.

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Vaio - "Bury me at Milanello"      R.I.P AC Milan

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird  and people take Prozac  to make it normal.

If laughing is the best medicine and marijuana makes you laugh

Is marijuana the best medicine?

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

“If any creator has not played Mario, then they’re probably not a good creator. That’s something I can say with 100 percent confidence. Mario is, for game creators, the development bible.