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

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RolStoppable said:

pezus said:
Btw, isn't this what Miyamoto would call: "Discrimination"? People who don't have internet are in the minority (of people who actually buy consoles), and for that reason Nintendo did not want to focus on online with Wii. Now, people who download are in the minority, but there are still a lot of them, and they force them to gobble up for an external hard drive or buy the game via retail. What if it's significantly cheaper digitally? I know it's that way for me, because I buy games digitally at US or UK prices.

If you were going to buy all of your games digitally, then every HDD size Nintendo put into the system would have been not enough for you. Suppose they put in a 500GB HDD, you could still end up needing a new HDD, because you could only fit 25 20GB games on there. In that case you could complain that you had to pay for a 500GB HDD that you knew wouldn't be enough in the long run and could argue that Nintendo should have sold the console at a lower price without a HDD and let you choose the HDD size for yourself, because such a solution would be more cost effective for you.

The people who complain in this thread should have also called out Nintendo for shipping 3DS units with a 2GB SD card, because 2GB isn't much either. Never happened though.

I think even Penny could come up with better logic...