The Vita has a strong digital focus with all games will be available digitally day and date of release. The Vita has 0 internal storage and if I remember you are exited for the Vita so why the double standard???

It's not a hard drive.  It's an internal flash memory system just like Wii (which had 512 MB).    I'm almost certain that no one manufactures an 8 GB hard drive anymore.   But remember that flash memory is also much faster.

Something else to note real quick.   Sony pushes mandatory game installs because the Blu-ray drive is just 2x which isn't very fast.  By installing the game to the hard drive, the system can access game data much faster.    With a fast optical drive speed, mandataory installs won't be necessary.

And one more thing, DLC sizes.   Many times DLC content will include multiple languages and repeated content already found on the game disc.   Thsi saves them from having to create multiple DLC files for various regions and puts the relevant game data closer to the relative files for faster access again.  If you remove all that, DLC sizes can shrink on mulitudes of serveral times.

ah, well that would have been nice to know lol

See, you cant even come on a damned forum to defend youself without dissing Nintendo. We do read you know ? We do remember you know ? It's obvious how many times you diss Nintendo.

I think it is a great idea. Giving customers their own choice. I'm still rocking like 90 gb free on my PS3. 120 gb was way too much for me. I think 60 gb would have been enough....it's like paying extra for something i dont need.

You think i diss nintendo, but really i just diss thier system and most of thier games. Its not nintendo, its what they have. And i say good things about them too http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4096195 Plus i said that Zelda looks awesome. Like i said, its not nintendo, its a bunch of thier desicions lately. If you have a problem with one of my post, please by all means, debate and tell me why you think i am wrong. Thats what a forum is all about. But saying that i only come to diss nintendo is just a bullshit. 

Edit: you know what nevermind, i noticed that even if i do only say negative things *which isn't true*, all you guys do is say positive things about them. Which is just retarded. Peace.

Devs already need multilayered bu ray discs for PS3 games.....don't doubt that within 3 years 25GB, nay 50GB may be too small.

Only because they load them with all the language tracks, uncompressed audio (pointless) and redudnant data (makes data reads faster).

But the game is the production stage, that's where the sounds are mixed, reverberation and other effects are added and projected over 5.1 or 7.1 channels. To get the best results you need lossless compressed audio, preferably in 24bit 96khz to give you enough headroom to do all the calculations. You can downsample it after all the mixing is done and all effects are added. However outputting it in 24bit 96khz is still preferable if your amp is going to apply extra filters and effects as well.

For textures compression doesn't matter as much as resolution. If the WiiU is going to do 1080p then you better get some higher res versions of textures for up close, requiring a lot more space.

25gb should be enough without too much pre rendered fmv. The Witcher 2, although not so high quality in the sound department, has pretty good texture detail for 1080p and is about 15gb. But if you add tons of high quality pre-rendered fmv in 2D and 3D versions then a 12gb game quickly turns into 41gb, see Killzone 3.

Anyway the chances that 3rd party devs are going to do HD sound mixing and make higher res textures for WiiU ports is pretty much 0. Nor do I think Nintendo will do it themselves. Stylized graphics is their strong point, not detail, same for sound effects. But it's nice to have 25gb available for ps4 / nextbox ports.

Keep in mind that the Blu-ray drive in the PS3 is slow (only 2x) and developers have used redundant data for most games as a way to reduce seek times and disc spins.  If the optical drive in Wii U is faster (and I see no reason why it won't be as even the cheapest of the cheap BD drives are 4x with most being 8-12x now with still 18 months to go) then the volume of redundant data will be reduced greatly - likely to no redundancy needed at all.

Witcher 2 is also coming to the X360 now.  We'll see how much of an impact the lower capacity has on the graphics, content and audio and how the faster drive speed of the X360 reduces redundant data.

[PS3 - 9 MB/s || X360 - 16.2 MB/s]