Wii U Has 8 GB of Internal Storage

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Khuutra said:

mrstickball said:

Mr Khan said:

Or it could encourage developers to reduce bloat. With some of the dlc size figures i've seen people quoting me, they're taking PS3/360 gamers for a ride on some of this...

Why would they spend time and money 'reducing bloat' when the competitors will not have the huge limitations on size?

A small HDD is going to cripple online games for the Wii significantly. Some of the higher end downloadable titles between XBLA and PSN are nearing 1GB, as well as most major pieces of DLC.

And downloadable games? Forget about it. You will not be able to download a single new or recent title and meet the cap. No Arkham City. No Assassin's Creed 3. Nothing. That will hurt the WiiU immensely.

Eh, I'll be able to

And it also keeps me from being locked into buying a proprietary drive, so that's nice

You'll be able to, but you'll be in the small minority that will add an SD card or USB drive.

And that's the problem. If a developer gets feedback that, say, only 2 in 10 WiiU users have add-on drives, then they'll know that the likelihood of their content selling well is going to be very, very poor.

Look at the developers that utilize any perpherial piece of hardware among any console - Wii's balance board, Kinect, Move, and so on. Very few utilized any of those devices, despite the fact that many sold very well. The likelihood of users purchasing SD/USB hard drives is arguably less likely than those devices. So think of the likelihood that a developer is going to utilize Nintendo's download services, knowing that, say, there are only a few users that will likely have the space available for their content.

Mark my words. Nintendo will suffer for it immensely. The AAA publishers are going to back away from developing tentpole DLC as fast as they can when they get the sales numbers for their 1GB+ content packs.