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Mummelmann on 21 February 2014
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fleischr said:
Mummelmann said:
That's one major problem with the Wii U's design though; there is almost no storage available. 32GB won't get you far with modern games. I have a couple of games on Steam that take up 15-20GB each and it's certainly not uncommon with 6-7GB for a fairly standard title, this is one of the reasons why digital won't be as viable for Nintendo in the 8th gen (the other being the actual availability on the store itself).

Adding storage is pretty simple though.

Just add a SD card, USB stick or even an entire external hard drive. All are easily formatted to the Wii U.

They're not beyond the point of adding an SKU with extra storage either.


Of course it's simple, but that's not my point. It should come with the capacity to make full use of the fastest growing distribution method in the world out of the box, not more or less require another expense for the customer. People talk about the amazing value of the Wii U and then forget the fact that you need to add more storage yourself in order to make full use of online stores, heck; even mandatory installs could pose problems.
To top it off; Nintendo have by far the poorest track record in allowing and acting as a segue for 3rd party accessories on their platforms.

I suppose that you could simply delete stuff every time you download or install something but that feels a bit excessive to demand of your customers as well. We saw MS discontinue the Core model after a fairly short amount of time on the market due to these exact problems; online components, installs and other forms of media quite simply need quite a bit of space, one can imagine how much you can get your hands on in 5-6 years until you purchase a new console.

Bolded: This should be at the very top of Nintendo's to-do list; add more storage in the box. I also can't figure out why they went with SSD, and a tiny one at that, these discs are the least cost-eficient on the market and it's not like it has made neither the OS nor the games perform any better (which is the whole point of an SSD in the first place).

Small storage in tablets and phones is okay, they don't really need as much, no huge games or massive mandatory installs or savegames to handle.