Wii U external hard drive required to download Lego City Undercover, Nintendo says

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WereKitten said:

KungKras said:

Otakumegane said:
Well.

Nintendo why you make so many bad decisions.

Not selling proprietary hard drives so consumers can buy better ones for cheaper is a bad decision?

A non proprietary internal hard-drive that you can just push in a sled would cost less to the consumer than a non-proprietary external drive with casing, controller, vcabling and maybe external power. And it would be faster. And it would be neater.

Really, the decision to leave off a replaceable HD option has no advantage for the consumer. It was an upfront cost cutting decision.

Even if there was a drive bay, even if it was empty in retail units, people would still complain about having to buy an extra thing.

Not including a component which itself hardly ever lowers in price (capacities just get larger instead) was a good move, and this will make it much easier to drop the price of the thing to that magical sub-99-space-credits point when the situation calls for it.