Millenium said:
freebs2 said:
Millenium said:
While not the most impressive specs, and they may run into the same Wii problems if 3'rd party abandons them, the 32mb eDRAM and Tesselation support are good though.
No standard 60GB (At least) harddrive is a mistake though. |
To be honest an internal drive doesn't seem like a necessity. Almost anyone has an external HDD drive at home, and if not a new one comes for cheap, also you're not forced to buy a proprietary hard dirve (like on 360) or to break the warranty seal (like on Ps3).
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Isn't it though?  Nintendo for what it's worth seems to be trying to catch up with Sony and Microsoft in re-capturing "core gamers" and catch up in entertainment possibilities.
And these are the audiences that are going to need at least some sort of harddrive, for demo's, video's, DLC and so on, so forth. Seems a bit odd to me then that they're going to rely on USB sticks and internal memory mainly then. It also seems like a strange proposition that I should then go out and buy a 50 euro harddrive (They're not cheap here atm and buying one below 500GB seems silly) even though I probably just put down between 300 and 350 for their system...
Just my take on the matter though.
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You have a point. Having to buy (or use) another device could be a sort of "psicological" barrier for former Wii users who are not accostumed to download demos and buy DLC. But to an internal HDD contributes to make the console more expansive, and if you're not a really "core" DLC user, using an external drive you may already own could be the most convenient option.
And I don't think you really need a 500GB hard drive, you generally don't keep stored dozens of demos at the same time, and you really have to download a lot of DLC to reach 500gb. Even if you add an hypotetical Gamecube virtual console you could store more than 300 games in 450GB Now I understand I'm not really accostumed into buying DLC but so far I've been fine with my 40GB Ps3 model.
