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

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JazzB1987 said:

Otakumegane said:
Well.

Nintendo why you make so many bad decisions.

Where was the bad decicion here?

Include some memory for savegames. CHECK!
Make harddrives optional so people dont have to last years HDD prices when they buy the console today.  CHECK!


I'd say. Awesome!

There's nothing awesome about skimping on the cheapest parts of a console to wedge in needless ones (Gamepad and SSD drive). Nintendo could have easily dumped the whole SSD idea and gone with a 320GB or even 500GB drive for the same price or less. There's no need for a SSD anyway since the bus transfer rates and overall hardware is too slow to make good use of it.

Offering the same services as the competition with none of the flexibility and foresight is not awesome, its silly. Nintendo have dropped the ball big time with the Wii U concept.