Actually is RPM, revolutions per minute, not seconds...

People clearly haven't read the OP.... You don't need to install physical copies like you do on the ps4 and xbox one... He's right.

The situation is equally as bad. Look past the numbers.

The PS4 & PS3 HDD are cheap and easy to change in and out. I have a 1TB in my PS3 & 2TB in my PS4. I use my 500GB & my 250GB that came with both systems with a USB enclosure and put all my favorite movies, anime's & music/albums on them. Now I have them all forever to plug into any PC, Laptop, PS3, PS4, even my Sony car CD player to watch movies/anime's/TV or listen to my music. It is very easy, convenient and cheap.

As an owner of a WiiU and a PS4, no, they aren't.

It simply isn't realistic to buy digital games on the WiiU without expanding the storage.

Technically a 5400rpm hard drive rotates from anwhere from 0 to 5400rpm, you are just being fecetious and semantic. ;)
That was a typo on my behalf. :P

And you are correct, flash memory is more expensive on a per-gigabyte basis, but... You can't buy a Mechanical Hard Drive that is only 8Gb and it would be more expensive to manufacturer than flash on a per-gigabyte basis if they did.

The PS4 installs games from a disk to the hard drive ridiculously quickly. I'm sure that, among many other things, has been mentioned by others. At any rate, not the best comparison.

So, to sum up the thread :

- If you go all physical, WiiU has better internal storage than PS4/XBO.
- If you go all digital, WiiU internal storage is a joke.

Did I miss something ?

wow this thread still amazes me how simple minded people think by only comparing the raw numbers and not all the implications.

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I'm confused by your first paragraph. Why does the time you realize your HD is full mean that it's close to nothing? most people it would take them years to fill that all. That hardly makes it quilify as nothing. Otherwise. 1 TB is only twice nonthing. 2TB 4 times nothing. Is it a little small? Yeah, but once again most people won't need bigger for years. You can easily replace it with a larger one deleting and installing games on the system is really fast.

There was also an 8 GB wii u. That added quite a bit to the reasons the wii u is thought of to have low space especially since that has only 3 GB of useable space. The next even with 32 GB in the system name you only have about 25GB that you can use. That would be all the save data for all the players and and DLC games or any digital games. It really is a small amount. Many people could be fine with this depending on gaming habbits but I imagine many more will be using external storage. While you can you use thumbdrives. Nintendo themselvse don't recomend this. They recomend ones with extrenal power supplies. They also don't recomend solid state drives. http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1474/~/wii-u-internal-storage-space-information.

There are many games on this list that would take up over half of your default hard disk space (as long as you bough the 32, the 8 has a ton of games that would require an external hard drive.It's from April so I"m sure there are more big ones since.

On this even older ps4 list. There is room for every single game and ap listed with 12 gigs to spare.  http://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/PlayStation_4_Actual_Hard_Drive_Space I doubt anyone would want all those games and unless someone was trying to get all the biggest games with all the DLC most people could easily fit over 20 games. No console has ever had a tie ratio even near that, so the console is fine for the masses as is without any more space, while the Wii U could very easily run out of default storage well before then.