Viper1 said:
radiantshadow92 said:
Viper1 said:
radiantshadow92 said:
dahuman said:
radiantshadow92 said:
Viper1 said:
radiantshadow92 said:
wow @ the 8gb of storage -_-. Not for me thats for sure. |
So buy a 2 TB HDD for $50 when it launches.
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Thats a waste of money when they could just put it in and charge the same ammount themselves. The more news that keeps coming out about the wiiu, the less i am intised to buy it.
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You are shitting me right? USB HDD is cheap as shit these days, and Nintendo is doing us a favor by not releasing like 2-3 SKUs at once to rip people off, how can you bitch about that? What do you think I did when I got my PS3? I tossed a 500GB HDD right in there that didn't cost me an arm and a leg, that's one reason I like the PS3 better than the 360 as well. The casual won't need that space right away, and those of us who know better will have a drive just laying around already.
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Its true, its really easy for me to get space. Im not saying i wont buy the wiiU because of this, i am saying though that they can easy just have 1 sku with 120gb. And charge the same ammount that they were if it has 8gb. Its like you said, its super cheap.
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Youa are confusing HDD's with flash memory. 8 GB's of flash memory (far faster than a HDD) would cost Nintendo about $5. But 128 GB's would easily cost another $75. An internal 128 GB HDD is rarely manufactured anymore and because of that would cost almost as much as the flash memory. The prefect balance is to offer a starting point that is both very fast and large enough to gain an apprciation for just how much space you think you'll need. Then you can purchase at your leisure the capacity that will suit you best.
Go take a look at HDD and flash memory price structure today. You'll see why it makes more sense to handle it this way.
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By 8gb i mean internal storage. Meaning the Hard drive. Is that right? If it is, then i am at a dissapoint.
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It's not a hard drive. It's an internal flash memory system just like Wii (which had 512 MB). I'm almost certain that no one manufactures an 8 GB hard drive anymore. But remember that flash memory is also much faster.
Something else to note real quick. Sony pushes mandatory game installs because the Blu-ray drive is just 2x which isn't very fast. By installing the game to the hard drive, the system can access game data much faster. With a fast optical drive speed, mandataory installs won't be necessary.
And one more thing, DLC sizes. Many times DLC content will include multiple languages and repeated content already found on the game disc. Thsi saves them from having to create multiple DLC files for various regions and puts the relevant game data closer to the relative files for faster access again. If you remove all that, DLC sizes can shrink on mulitudes of serveral times.
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ah, well that would have been nice to know lol
