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Fireforgey on 15 March 2013
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bananaking21 said:
DieAppleDie said:
bananaking21 said:
DieAppleDie said:
A second hand 500gb hdd costs next to zero, shouldnt be a big deal.....the key word is should


they just released the system and already games are requiring you to change the hard drive. it was obvious from day one that this will be in issue yet nintendo decided to go with the extremely low memory choices. so much for nintendo going all out on the digital and online space like they claim they are doing



The thing is most people buy games on discs, people that need huge memory to dwnld full games are the minority, of the minority...you cant really blame Nintendo for not adding a big hard drive, minorities are not priorities....

thats not true, digital sales have been growing a lot, ubisoft says that digital downloads of their games on the vita are between 15% to 20%. fire emblems digital downloads in the usa account for over 30% of its tottal sales. digital downloads are growing, and fast. and nintendo's limited storage doesnt really help it

Sooooooo, wouldn't these people have a significantly larger HDD than 32 GB already?  Especially if they want to download a 22 GB game?  I don't see how this is an issue.

 

AbbathTheGrim said:

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 SSD 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.

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