I was reading the title as

Wii U external hard drive required to download Lego City Undercover, Nintendo says "Fuck you".

It didn't stop Dragon Quest X from being on Wii and WiiU.(MMO)

Also defiance having a 10gb install and yet its still on 360, which means they are willing to make a game that forsakes some of the userbase, I don't see why the same conclusion can be drawn to the WiiU. 

As far as ammunition goes for not deveoping on Nintendo consoles, 3rd parties will always have some reason to not develop, and hard drive space seems like a small issue compared to some of the other reasons they don't want to make games on WiiU.

I agree that putting a smaller HDD is an issue, but I think we disagree on the scale, I think it's a minor issue because they can always add larger HDDs later on in the lifecycle and so far and you can buy your own HDD if you like, the only thing Nintendo should do like I said is brand some Nintendo HDDs and sell them at retailers.

Advancements happens automatically.

We always get dramatic improvement on graphics with each gen, but you need to do more then just the better graphics & hard drive by itself.

If the only you change each gen is better graphics and internal Hard Drive, then you will NOT be making a difference in the gaming industry.

You noobs don't understand that these those advancements you want are automatic with each new system release.........so what are you going to make a new system besides better specs? Which is automatic anyways.

You completely miss the point. We always get advancements automatically with each new system, and each new redesign, but what else will the console do besides the same old same old.

Thats the problem with you noobs. You don't understand that advancements are automatic in redesigns & new Gen Systems.

I've never had problem with needing a Y cable with portable drives. I've own multiples WD, iOmega and Lacie.
Just the desktop models that needs external AC power adapter that need more than just a single USB 2.0 to get enough power.

If you need a Y adapter to work, then it's most likely the portable drive is poorly designed and/or cheap off-brand or your usb socket is broken.

It could be poor hardware design, too. My friend has an Apple laptop and his WD portable wouldn't work without Y cable. I swapped cable with him since I never needed it.

I was planning on downloading a bunch of Retail games, but I rather save room for full 3D movies to download so I don't need the physical for that many 3D movies.

Anyways handhelds require external memory cards, and that only cost like $15 for a 32 GB SD Card.

People need external hard drive for their kids Xbox 360. So I don't see this as any different then the 360 with Kinect.

You only need to spend $85 to $100 if you get a 2 TB Hard Drive. If you get a lesser memory one then it's even cheaper.

What about consumers who feel uncomfortoble with tech? They wouldn't want to have to install anything into the hardware.

Now you're on a different subject, though: you were talking about cost-effectiveness, now it's installation ease.

As I said already: the  keyword is option. Let the consumer know that the HD can be added/replaced at any moment by opening a slot and sliding a standard HD in (because that's all it takes e.g. on the PS3) . If they can't or are not comfortable with trying that, maybe their son or nephew will, or the guy at the desk in 3 minutes or less. Some customers might not like the idea to do that themselves, but still appreciate not having a more expensive extra external device attached through an extra cable.

They are probably familiar with people buying extra RAM for their laptops or changing their HD. That operation might not be one that they want to perform, but is a known, estabilished option.

If they are really reluctant to do that, let them have an external HD. Why not? I just think that it should not be the only way to increase storage memory on a system that offers games for downloads in the tens of GBs, and where even demos can span several GBs.

Why? Consoles ARE becoming more like PC-mini, complete with hard drives and everything. Once upon a time, consoles were consoles.

Ok, you have a much more reasonable stance than most people who are complaining in this thread. An internal harddrive slot would be a nice addition to the console. But what Nintendo has done now is not a bad soloution, and leagues better than using proprietary storage.

It's still funny to think that with the new controller Nintendo is trying to go after the tablet market and yet the some of the tablets on the market have more internal storage space than the WiiU...

The bottom line though is that price of the WiiU isn't 350$ for the deluxe model, it's 350 + the cost of the external drive you're going to have to buy...