The thing is most people buy games on discs, people that need huge memory to dwnld full games are the minority, of the minority...you cant really blame Nintendo for not adding a big hard drive, minorities are not priorities....

thats not true, digital sales have been growing a lot, ubisoft says that digital downloads of their games on the vita are between 15% to 20%. fire emblems digital downloads in the usa account for over 30% of its tottal sales. digital downloads are growing, and fast. and nintendo's limited storage doesnt really help it

Also Nintendo pride them self on being the most family friendly console on the market. How family friendly is it when some parent is trying to purchase and setup lego city for their child and just as they are about to download the game they are prompted with "An external harddrive is required to download this software. visit support@nintendo for information about storage options". Seriously after already doing a 5 gig update this is not looking like a very family friendly console. I mean shit it took me a couple of hours just to get the Wifi to work on the Wii U. I had set up the connection manually. It was so hard for me to do!!

I feel that would be a parent too conscious of gaming and I doubt that that is a majority. I feel a parent would look for a physical copy of a game along the Wii U console, let the little bastard open the present and let him do what he will with the game and console.

Lol this is hilarious, posters making a big deal about a lack of a harddrive? Wow some people have nothing better to do than whine about a company they don't even support. It makes more sense to those posters for Ninty to increase the price of the entire system for an overpriced harddrive? No thanks lol. I'll just buy the game in store like majority.

well at least the game is using the capacity given to it, cheap external hard drives are always a good option especially considering how big the downloads are getting. downside is downloading games takes forever and unless you have unlimited downloads it takes alot of your data usage

Like he said majority are buying physical and that's all that matters. If you want to digitally download buy a harddrive. Its cheaper than Ninty overcharging you like some companies. Lol at all you have is one game as proof.

Hahaha man that sucked. I've made it through the whole generation with just those 20 gbs so the Wii U with 25 should work out for someone steering clear of digital distribution.

Also I'm interested to see if this applies to all Wii U owners, even those with enough space on the drive.

yeh but lego city is just the first. What about when an older person is trying to download the latest brain age or wii fit update and they are prompted with the same message. No other mainstream product on the market today makes you go out and buy a hard drive just to download something people expect a brand new console should have no problem doing. I don't really understand why they did included such a small hard drive. It's definetely not a very family friendly choice. 

do you really think that a guy with the name"super mario world" and dozens of nintendogames in his sig is not supporting Nintendo and has nothing better to do?

or is his reaction the result of several dozens small things nintendo screwed up in the past  years ?