Is Basic Wii U going to be discontinued?

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Barozi said:

RolStoppable said:

UltimateUnknown said:

Well's that why I'm saying that the basic version shouldn't be selling less. It should be selling more. I don't really see anything much of value that the Premium gives you over basic, especially when you could be buying a sizeable hard drive that you'll need anyway even if you bought the Premium version.

Unless of course people would much rather give up the all important hard drive space for Nintendoland. Or if they want black colour instead of white, which is only aesthetic.

Most people probably don't need an HDD, so saying that it is mandatory is disingenious.

The Premium set also gives a discount/payback of 8-10% (depending on where you live) on all digital purchases until the end of 2014.

If you get the Basic SKU, I think it's almost mandatory.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/why-the-8gb-wii-u-can-only-store-3gb-of-downloaded-games-and-dlc/

Even without connecting the WiiU to the internet (20% worldwide don't have their WiiU connected), there's still only 3GB left for savegames, which might work, but you couldn't even install DLCs from GOTY editions.

Rol's point is that the premium's internal memory is big enough for most people (except for those who want to go digital).

They buy the premium so they don't have to buy the external HDD they'd need if they bought the basic, and they get a game and some other extra stuff for the same money.