Wii Storage Limits “Becoming Much More of a Mainstream Problem”
By Chris on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 at 1:28 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Nintendo, Nintendo
Nobody really took kindly to Nintendo’s condescending remark that only “geeks and otaku” cared about the Wii’s serious lack of storage space (Not the least of which was David Jaffe). While Laurent Fischer, the one who originally made the comment, later apologized, there was still no word that Nintendo was actually addressing the complaints about storage capacity.
During E3 last week, MTV Multiplayer got to chat with Nintendo of America prez Reggie Fils-Aime and one of the topics that came up was what spawned the “geeks and otaku” comment.
Reggie said explained that they’re looking at the situation and while they don’t have anything to announce currently, “certainly it’s an issue we are aware of and we’re working to find a solution and we will.” In other words, he said exactly what you’d expect.
Multiplayer also asked if Nintendo had been hearing from more than the core gamer audience about the lack of storage space, which prompted him to explain, “As we continue to have things, as you point out, like Mario Kart that has its own channel when you’re playing from an Internet perspective, we’re just making this challenge tougher and tougher. So in our view this is becoming much more of a mainstream problem, which is why we have a sense of urgency to solve it.”
Ah, well the mainstream wants it, so there must be a solution on the way! Hopefully it won’t be too pricey, whatever it is.
They will copy Microsofts pricing probably and charge well over 100$ for a 20-60gig HD
MS isn’t the only one doing it
@ steve who else is charging you for a 20-60 gig upgrade hard drive that you can’t upgrade past 120?
@HouseMaster
There’s two ways to approach that topic: Post-purchase upgrade and initial SKU price descrepancy. I was referring to the latter.
Given the topic at hand is about going from zero storage (relatively speaking) to adequate storage, initial price seems a more relevant comparison. If the third party I was referring to had a non-HD SKU (thank god it doesn’t anyway), then it would be a simple comparison.
Steve I was referring to a post purchase upgrade because if you did need to upgrade the wii (I don’t think they (Nintendo) would just release a new will with a hard drive) then your going to have to buy it your self. I think only your “core” gamer will ever buy it. But maybe not.
As for comparing a non-Hard Drive SKU to a Hard Drive SKU you have to see what each one is going to be used for outside of gaming. Now I state that because it is some what relevant to the topic because if a SKU going to be used for nothing but gaming then you don’t need much memory but if you’re going to be downloading movies, DLC, songs, themes and what ever else you want then you’re going to need a hard drive. Now if the third party that we keep referring to did release a Non-Hard Drive SKU (you would need some memory for installs) I think that would be a good thing if they keep the prices down say to $299.99? that seems fair it gives you $100 to put in to a hard drive upgrade if you want if you just want to play game and don’t want DLC there you go.
But as you said you really can’t compare them.
Yes this is needed and needed soon. Just give out a firmware update where we can use thumb drives and hard drives through the USB connection.
My point is that ANY console you buy today, you’re not getting a free hard drive. Far from it, in fact.