| Gnac said: 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. |
Oh, someone will always complain, and I think that not having an HD in base models is not a big deal. There is people that will never need to digitally download full retail games.
As I said in my answer to KungKras, and it looks like you're agreeing, Nintendo made a cost/feature compromise. Let's not that pretend that it isn't detrimental to some customers only because MS ripped off people with proprietary HDs, or Sony ripped off people with proprietary memory cards. There was a way to be more customer-friendly here.
