I am sorry to bring this up. My only reason is to let gamers know how biased they are to respect to one company or the other (the big 3).

When Wii U came out last november with an 8GB and 32GB of Flash Memory, it was bombarded with critism because of the small capacity of memory. Now next gen games size have been announced to be way above 30GB per game with obligatory installation. Around 16 games of about 30GB can be installed in the 500GB hard drive inside XBOX ONE and PS4, without counting how much space the operating systems on those consoles will take. Realize that one of them is a derivative of Windows 8. 

Add 1TB of external hard drive for $70 (really cheap but still good quality) and $50 for the online subscription. And I am not adding one game $60 that none of the consoles bring with them inside the box. You will probably say, 16 games is too much for launch I can live with that. Well, you are right in the fact that there is not enough games on any of the two consoles to fill that hard drive at launch. The same thing happened with the Wii U, yet you enthusiastically suggest people to buy an external hard drive when the Wii U was just left in shame because of the same reason, and also that the Wii U had no games at launch. 

Now, keep in mind. This thread is not because I am a hater of any of the consoles. I have nothing to do with consoles I don't own or will ever own. I just want to point out that simple fact, how the bar is set high for Nintendo when others just crouch with no major noise. I will suggest to drop that "console war" that only bring discord to the community. 

Have a nice gaming session.

Umm I've actually seen a few threads about people complaining about the huge install sizes and saying they are waiting for Sony and Microsoft to increase to 1 or 2 TB HDDs.

I'm fairly certain the HDD concerns for the Wii U were about the basic model which can hardly fit two games.

In my opinion it will be better for both companies to leave the SKU's with 500GB. More than that will probably increase the cost by a considerable amount. And no one want that, when both are at the limit of what people want. Especially PS4. XBOX ONE is a little too high. 

Ok, well 16 full games is still more than the wii u holds. I just dowbloaded re revelations today and it took half the space with one game. Storage is a big issue this gen, but nintendo definitely skimped out more than the other two.

Don't you think there's a difference between the MS and Sony situations in which you can install 10 or more games until you have to manage things versus he WiiU situation where you have 4 gigs once you factor in that initial update?

Seems like false equivalence to me.

Probably you are right. I have a 32GB Wii U with around 10 downloaded titles, and I still have around 18GB free. Now, Wii U port games are at max around 16GB, if people like to download titles (considering the Deluxe promotion is really good) 30GB is just about 2-3 games at best. 

This and there are methods in place to make installing as painless as possible.

Not to mention, a lot of people are angry and lashing out about it. Me included!

I am focusing on price. Even if you buy the external hard drive with the WIi U at the same time, the price is well bellow both other two consoles. 

Yes sir, you are right. But the final price of the console are way above what people expected when Sony said the console cost only $399.

The Wii U is in no way valuless for the price is it right now.