Wii U Has 8 GB of Internal Storage

[Zim]

pezus said:

Zim said:

blunty51 said:
Wouldn't the transfer rate for usb-attached HDDs be pretty slow?

As gumby_trucker excellently explained it really wouldn't be. It would still be faster than playing from disc on 360/PS3. 

But faster than playing from their Hard Drives? Why is digital speed being compared to retail disks here?

Because the point is that playing a game from an external hard drive isn't going to hinder performance anyhow. So the transfer rate is fine. Slow would imply that it is slower than playing from a disc and would be an issue. It isn't. You could install a game to an external hard drive and it would run faster than off disc etc. 

I don't see any issue at all with the Wii U having USB 2.0. It isn't going to cause problems.

Also unless I'm mistaken those naughty people who took apart their 360s found that the 360 Hard Drive had a transfer rate of about 32MB/s. Which would mean a USb 2.0 hard drive would be between disc performance and internal hard drive performance.