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SnesTea on 05 June 2013
wfz said:
Snesboy said:

So...tell me where I can fit a 3.5 HDD inside a WiiU.

WiiU supports external HDDs. Is that not enough for you people?!


Of course not. People want to pay for overpriced first-party HDDs because they want their wallets to be ripped clean by these companies they love so much.

*smug ass look on my face*

Yup. Sounds about right.



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Teriol on 05 June 2013
Snesboy said:
wfz said:
Snesboy said:

So...tell me where I can fit a 3.5 HDD inside a WiiU.

WiiU supports external HDDs. Is that not enough for you people?!


Of course not. People want to pay for overpriced first-party HDDs because they want their wallets to be ripped clean by these companies they love so much.

*smug ass look on my face*

Yup. Sounds about right.

yeah this "argument" about  not enouth storage in the wiiu... It is a retard argument i have a 2TB HDD for only $79.99 dollars....



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SnesTea on 05 June 2013

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=204249&sid=95177c538c26a33a33f881c10a1d84bb

Woo! Debunked. Oh ye console fans of little faith.



outlawauron on 05 June 2013
aikohualda said:
put the 32 gig at 299 and 64 gig at 350?

I'd hope they'd be smart enough to actually offer a large HDD. This 32GB -> 64 GB upgrade is laughable for a console.



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TheLastStarFighter on 05 June 2013

People seem to be missing the point. If Nintendo starts it's major push at e3 - as has been said they will - and that push says "get your deluxe 32 gig Wii U in white or black" - like Japan - then 8 Gig Whites hanging around could cause confusion. There is surely going to be a new "one model" focused promotion and they can't have these 8 gig's out there. Otherwise they would just discount them.



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MTZehvor on 05 June 2013

Wasn't this rumor debunked by Nintnedo?



BlowoverKing on 05 June 2013

Doesn't suprise me that their trying to redistribute the 8gb model. The Best Buy I work at has been sitting on probably over 15 of them for the past 5 months. Nobody buys it, people just like the fact that everything comes in one complete package with the deluxe. System, game, larger memory, and more accessories.



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radiantshadow92 on 05 June 2013

They need bigger hdd anyways but this is not a good thing sony and ms always leave the old sku on the shelves so this is def a matter of sales



gigantor21 on 05 June 2013
brendude13 said:
superchunk said:
yep. Nintendo is going to add 32GB of ram and resell them as deluxe.

Since this is happening one week after E3, I expect big news on new bundling options and quite possibly a price change for $299 for WiiU. (only one sku from now on) and various pricing depending on bundled game.

Hell, they may go crazy and drop it to $249 to $279 and have $299 the price point with a bundled game besides NL.

I also hope this corresponds to a set of free digital stuff from eShop for us early adopters.

Damn, that's a lot.

I'm not gonna lie, I got hype for a second. XD

Still, this is probably for the best considering most people probably got a Deluxe anyway. Might as well put the Basic models collecting dust to work.



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pokoko on 05 June 2013

My guess is that GameStop requested that Nintendo take back some of their stock. This isn't something that would normally happen otherwise, as shipping product around is expensive.

Speaking of expensive, there is no way Nintendo would have taken back new product in order to add more memory. That would be hugely expensive and would represent quite a loss per console.