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How will you purchase MK8?

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DIGITAL (eShop - even with code from store) 58 18.30%
 
See Results 36 11.36%
 
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Getting it digitally. I have a 2tb HDD hooked up to my WiiU so have no worries about space, and bought mario kart on virtual console so get the £5 off MK8 deal if i buy on eshop.



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Getting physical regardless. Also, is this Nintendo's biggest game yet?



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the2real4mafol said:
Getting physical regardless. Also, is this Nintendo's biggest game yet?

Nope, Tropical Freeze was 11GB.

Hell, there are Wii games bigger than this. (Xenoblade, Metroid Other M, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Smash Bros Brawl)



impertinence said:

In the interest of civility I will refrain from fireing back with speculations on what's wrong with your children and how you have failed in bringing them up.

I think you might have mistaken my hypotetichal hyperbole as fact. My children are now old enough to where they don't intentionally destroy property, which is not to say they don't break shit on accident from time to time. The point is, the genetically enhanced superior diamond coating of a bluray disc is no match for the destructive force of a toddler. Careless and destructive as they are though, they just can't scratch a digital copy of a game. (They could ofcourse render a Wii U completely useless in less then 5 seconds, but if small children get a hold of your Wii you have only yourself to blame for the damage sustained)

Source: http://www.shitmykidsruined.com/

As a five year old I covered my pet dog in motor oil. Also, went through quite a few pages of that site... no damanged blurays.



Let me just check how much space my Wii U Basic model has left.



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curl-6 said:
the2real4mafol said:
Getting physical regardless. Also, is this Nintendo's biggest game yet?

Nope, Tropical Freeze was 11GB.

Hell, there are Wii games bigger than this. (Xenoblade, Metroid Other M, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Smash Bros Brawl)

In most cases, it comes down to how much time/resources they invest in data compression (which seems a high priority for Nintendo).

In others, there are things that add a lot of data.

Brawl and Other M had a lot of cutscenes that added a lot of fluff.

Xenoblade had huge worlds.



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_crazy_man_ said:
curl-6 said:
the2real4mafol said:
Getting physical regardless. Also, is this Nintendo's biggest game yet?

Nope, Tropical Freeze was 11GB.

Hell, there are Wii games bigger than this. (Xenoblade, Metroid Other M, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Smash Bros Brawl)

In most cases, it comes down to how much time/resources they invest in data compression (which seems a high priority for Nintendo).

In others, there are things that add a lot of data.

Brawl and Other M had a lot of cutscenes that added a lot of fluff.

Xenoblade had huge worlds.

I know.

I'm just saying, 4.9GB is actually relatively small.