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

[WereKitten]

KungKras said:

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.

What about consumers who feel uncomfortoble with tech? They wouldn't want to have to install anything into the hardware.

Now you're on a different subject, though: you were talking about cost-effectiveness, now it's installation ease.

As I said already: the  keyword is option. Let the consumer know that the HD can be added/replaced at any moment by opening a slot and sliding a standard HD in (because that's all it takes e.g. on the PS3) . If they can't or are not comfortable with trying that, maybe their son or nephew will, or the guy at the desk in 3 minutes or less. Some customers might not like the idea to do that themselves, but still appreciate not having a more expensive extra external device attached through an extra cable.

They are probably familiar with people buying extra RAM for their laptops or changing their HD. That operation might not be one that they want to perform, but is a known, estabilished option.

If they are really reluctant to do that, let them have an external HD. Why not? I just think that it should not be the only way to increase storage memory on a system that offers games for downloads in the tens of GBs, and where even demos can span several GBs.