SuperMarioWorld said:
AbbathTheGrim said:
SuperMarioWorld said:
Also Nintendo pride them self on being the most family friendly console on the market. How family friendly is it when some parent is trying to purchase and setup lego city for their child and just as they are about to download the game they are prompted with "An external harddrive is required to download this software. visit support@nintendo for information about storage options". Seriously after already doing a 5 gig update this is not looking like a very family friendly console. I mean shit it took me a couple of hours just to get the Wifi to work on the Wii U. I had set up the connection manually. It was so hard for me to do!!
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I feel that would be a parent too conscious of gaming and I doubt that that is a majority. I feel a parent would look for a physical copy of a game along the Wii U console, let the little bastard open the present and let him do what he will with the game and console.
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yeh but lego city is just the first. What about when an older person is trying to download the latest brain age or wii fit update and they are prompted with the same message. No other mainstream product on the market today makes you go out and buy a hard drive just to download something people expect a brand new console should have no problem doing. I don't really understand why they did included such a small hard drive. It's definetely not a very family friendly choice.
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Seems like a budget choice to lower expenses. Bigger HDD, bigger cost. I recall updates that go to 600MB in the PS3, so a big updates + intalled games could present problems in the long run indeed. It could become a situation where you would need to sit down and be forced to choose what you'll have installed in the console and what is not.
In the end, it will all come down to whether the user believes that going through the process of dealing with the limited HDD space is worth the hassle.
Are updates downloaded automatically by the way? I guess they would give you the option of skipping the download in the worse case scenario.
