New Nintendo Direct 11.14.12 per neogaf

[Viper1]

osed125 said:

Viper1 said:

osed125 said:

"- In Data Management, you must format the connected media drive. Note that this means you cannot use the drive with a PC"

What!? Maybe I read that wrong, am I only allowed to use the external HDD with my Wii U? I can't use the same external HDD on my PC!?

No.

This is likely a combination of Nintendo having their own storage formatting system (think NTFS and FAT32) which simply makes it unreadable by a PC that doesn't understand the formatting and a piracy prevention measure so you don't upload your games online.

PS3 does the same thing for the internal HDD.

Ok, so as long I don't download any pirated games I can still storage music, school projects and other stuff on my external HDD?

You can but you'd need to partition a section of that HDD for that purpose.    If you formatted the entire HDD with Nintendo's file system, your PC wouldn't know what to do with it when you plugged it in.   If you ahve an NTFS partition on it first though, it could access that portion.