VetteDude said:
greenmedic88 said:
PlaystaionGamer said:
how Expensive are HDD's really these days for big companies like Nintendo.. COME ON!
Wont memory cards make it easier for hackers though?
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HDDs are currently the most expensive single component in any console being produced.
While I'm not one to praise Nintendo's hardware for any other reasons than characteristic "Nintendo durability" and the company's ability to use mature, lower priced technology to create hardware that is greater than its sum of parts (at a profit), from a business perspective, going with internal flash memory standard is good business.
NAND flash memory in low quanties is cheap. Minimum size HDDs are still pricey components. 8GB of NAND memory is well under $10. The lowest capacity HDD currently being produced costs many times more.
As long as Nintendo allows for the use of any USB based external HDD (no mandatory proprietary specially formatted "Nintendo brand" HDDs) to expand storage for game downloads and the like, what it means is a lower standard price for the console without additional cost for budget minded consumers who in all likelihood already have a USB HDD.
Installs will be an issue with developers though as the base 8GB internal memory essentially eliminates the practicality of mandatory installs. It will likely be the same issue developers had with the Xbox 360, and were forced to work around.
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So what? So remove the HDD and now "THE MOST EXPENSIVE PART IS THE GPU, NINTENDO SHOULD DITCH THAT!!!!" 8GB of memory is pitful, short-sighted, and I might even add arrogant. "Well if people want storage, do it themselves. We are Nintendo, screw digital distribution even though we are in dead last when it comes to online gaming" USB HDD's are slow, and a PITA. Why do I want a freaking external hard drive plugged into my console?
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uh, it's not really slow, USB2 has the peak bandwidth of 480mpbs, that means about 60MB/S, usually averages at 30-50MB, which is a lot faster than optical drives. I have multiple external drives, they don't require power, you just plug them in and USB would take care of the rest, it's plug and play, takes no effort.
