Xenoblade Chronicles X is so big it almost needed 2 discs

[VanceIX]

curl-6 said:

VanceIX said:

Nintendo has more than enough money to be able to include a non-proprietary bluray drive in their console. I doubt it would effect their profit margin much at all, and it would at least allow it to keep up with the PS4/One when it came to amount of storage available for games. It's the least they can do since there's no HDD in the console. Not to mention that Nintendo tends to sell hardware at a big profit margin (much bigger than Sony or Microsoft), and the slight loss they made over the 2012-2013 period was easily overshadowed by the great profit they made this fiscal year and the Wii years.

Besides this one game though, it seems that 25GB is no obstacle for them; hell, most of their games would have fit on a Wii disc.

True, but think of the multiplats that the Wii U could have gotten if it supported more storage. Third party devs hate optimizing games based on storage, and that combined with the fact that the Wii U is more than a bit underpowered is keeping third party devs away.

Overall though, you're right in that it doesn't effect the Wii U's main software developer (Nintendo) much. It does effect third party reluctance to develop on the console, but that's another story.