Iwata Asks: Wii U (Hardware Devs + A look Inside the Wii U hardware)

[Viper1]

happydolphin said:

sperrico87 said:

Yeah but if you remove the disc drive then you lose backward compatibility.  That wouldn't go over well.  Personally I wouldn't have a problem with it... but backward compatibility tends to be a big deal during the first few years of new consoles when original games are in short supply.

Couldn't they just sell that as an external USB disk drive?

Bad idea.  May as well keep it built in.

 

Besides, we have no idea how many layers the Wii U game discs could be.  It may be up to 3 layers deep.  Don't think I want to see the price tag on a 75 GB SD card based game.