I hope they're off by a magnitude of 1024, because if not it's terribly obscene in how bad it's bloated.Kross said:
Nintendo Uses Colored Beads to Explain Wii U Storage
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OH, I see what happened. Someone created an internal video to explain to the retarded designers about storage and memory and it leaked. I'm relatively sure they had no idea what any of this meant because they still refer to the size of your SD card for the 3DS in terms of blocks. Really, grow up Nintendo. And it's a damn shame that your own video shows how completely useless the base model is... Or is it? Think about it, if the 3DS online catalog of games are any indication, no one will be downloading their games anyway.
Ok so...8gb is still more than the basic slim 360. I dunno much about that but I got the basic 360 and I've been able to install AND play Gotham City Impostors, Minecraft, Fable, Black ops 1, Netflix and Borderlands 2. So...what the hell?
Also, the fact that you can use external memory is great. The only one who's kinda done that before would be Sony where they would allow you to replace the HD with any HD of your choice (As long as it fitted). But it certainly wasn't as convenient as the WiiU.
[sub][sub]Does the 360 allow for external memory usage like the WiiU? I'm not sure...[/sub][/sub]
Also, the fact that you can use external memory is great. The only one who's kinda done that before would be Sony where they would allow you to replace the HD with any HD of your choice (As long as it fitted). But it certainly wasn't as convenient as the WiiU.
[sub][sub]Does the 360 allow for external memory usage like the WiiU? I'm not sure...[/sub][/sub]
Because the price of a bigger hard-drive totally wouldn't have been factored into the cost of the system. But then, Heaven forbid that I should expect someone to look at the big picture of things.Scrythe said:
Exactly my thoughts, and I have minimal knowledge of computer software and hardware.Kross said:
Which brings me to my next point - if I can understand how absurd this is, how is it that no one in Nintendo thought to bring this absurdity into question? This really puts Nintendo's intelligence on a weird display, and not in a good way.
This is a good thing. Give me a base minimal size to start with so that the system is as inexpensive as possible. Then I get the choice (remember that?) between what HDD size I want, what RPM speed, what kind of case it's in, price range, etc. I'm sure there'll be a third party peripheral that docks the HDD to the system too. But really, a 4.2 GB dedicated gaming OS? It better be fuckin revolutionary.
I wish I had money when there were pre-orders, because this thing is going to be about as available as fried Dodo at KFC.
I wish I had money when there were pre-orders, because this thing is going to be about as available as fried Dodo at KFC.
Yeah, that's about what stuck with me too. Is their... dashboard thing or whatever they're using as a proprietary menu really so bloated that it's going to eat up 4 Gigs?Kross said:
I have to buy another external hard drive pretty soon anyway, but I'm not sure how I feel about one specifically for use with a Wii U. If it can interface just fine with one also being used on a PC without needing to reformat the entire drive or something, then I don't really have any issues with it, but it's still a bit worrying. I'm not sure if/when I'll ever pick up a Wii U, though, so I guess it doesn't effect me all that much right now.
I'd be surprised if it didn't; the WaraWara plaza is a complex Dashboard:shrekfan246 said:
The Xbox 360/PS3 Dashboard is nothing like the WaraWara plaza...
I wonder what that would look like with someone like me, who rarely if ever connects his consoles to the internet...Mr.Mattress said:
I got it! It's gotta be reserved space for all the potential Miis that you can share with your friends!Kross said:
By that logic, then Microsoft has gotten away with it for 7 years, if you bought an Arcade Edition back then, you were pretty much screwed, because you needed to buy a bigger HDD 3 times as expensive as a regular one and God forbids you if you wanted to use wireless internet, you needed to buy a shitty peripherial 3 times as expensive as my home router.rhizhim said:and let me guess, you can only use nintendo licensed external hard drives...
did you know back then when console gamers used to tell you that you wouldn't had to fight with a dozen of wires like on a stupid pc to get it running?
and did you know how well it turned out for sega to have different expensive devices you had to connect in order to play "the latest and visually stunning games"?
ah, god old times.
i wonder how long it will take pirates to exploit the external hard drive option.
and also wonder how long you will be standing before loading screens since it seems like it uses usb 2.0 instead of thuderbold or usb 3.0.
If Nintendo are embracing external drives from the beginning, that's a serious big plus for me and really, a regular HDD isn't that expensive if you really need one.
Sure, it's great that this functionality is present. But what it basically amounts to is "the Wii U has practically no space, so you'll have to supply your own media storage". Which is irresponsible of Nintendo as far as I'm concerned.
As SupahGumah pointed out above, Microsoft has been doin that for years with the Arcade edition. Except they actually fuck people over because you have to buy only Microsoft brand HDD's and wireless routers that cost nearly 3 times as much as a non Microsoft brand counterpart and are shittier all around.MeChaNiZ3D said:
Then that's irresponsible by Microsoft as well, and worse because they're reaming customers at the same time. Doesn't make Nintendo much better. To be honest I had no idea, because I haven't bought anything relevant from them.shintakie10 said:
the beans on the table symbolize the lost packets due to poor nintendo network protocols.
so funny they advertise that.
also, any machine with no internel memory to speak of deserves to be laughed out of existence. just look at what happened to mobile phones who though 10mb was enough and you have to buy sd card....
PS3 has no such problem.
so funny they advertise that.
also, any machine with no internel memory to speak of deserves to be laughed out of existence. just look at what happened to mobile phones who though 10mb was enough and you have to buy sd card....
microsift is pro when it comes to ripping its costumers. did you know that for example you cant plug a normal 3.5mm headphones into xbox. you need a special "microsoft headophones" that cost 10 times as much and break faster.MeChaNiZ3D said:
PS3 has no such problem.
If wonder how much of a performance hit, if any, would happen if you loaded games from an external.
Right now I'm wondering why I should pay $50 more for 24 GB (Basic vs Deluxe) instead of using that $50 to buy a 500GB HDD.
Also lets not pretend that 32 GB is a significant amount of space either. Odds are people who install a lot of games to their deluxe would have to buy an external as well.
Right now I'm wondering why I should pay $50 more for 24 GB (Basic vs Deluxe) instead of using that $50 to buy a 500GB HDD.
Also lets not pretend that 32 GB is a significant amount of space either. Odds are people who install a lot of games to their deluxe would have to buy an external as well.
Using Nintendo's bead system I am able to show the number of fucks I give about this news:
Nah, Im just being facetious. It does mildly bemuse me that they need to put out a video like this however, cant help but feel if the lower model is likely to impact the storage in that way then it just shouldn't exist.
Nah, Im just being facetious. It does mildly bemuse me that they need to put out a video like this however, cant help but feel if the lower model is likely to impact the storage in that way then it just shouldn't exist.
I think Nintendo is improving, but they still seem to think their fans are downright stupid when it comes to technology.
I'm 27 and I've been gaming for about 23 years. Yes, at four I was already jumping on goombas and koopas.
Now that I think back on now much games use to cost(my parents never hid how much it cost to get me a game), I can safely say that game prices really haven't changed that much.
I remember back to having my old grey brick Gameboy, which I still have
, and my aunt had flown in for Christmas. Her family diced to go to the mall for some last minute Christmas shopping. We entered a game store and she asked if I wanted anything in particular. I saw that the store had Paperboy for Gameboy. She ended up getting it for me and I remember it costing around 30 dollars.
So in that respect hand held games haven't changed in price that much. I got Pokemon White, when it came out, for 34. I also remember getting SNES and N64 games for around 60 to 70 dollars. Considering the N64, prices of games have come down for consoles.
PC is pretty much the same except for in the AAA department, which keeps up at 60 most of the time, thought with Steam and its sales, one only has to wait a few months for a sale to get the AAAs for much less.
I don't know about where you are at, but I don't think much has changed.Redlin5 said:
I'm 27 and I've been gaming for about 23 years. Yes, at four I was already jumping on goombas and koopas.
Now that I think back on now much games use to cost(my parents never hid how much it cost to get me a game), I can safely say that game prices really haven't changed that much.
I remember back to having my old grey brick Gameboy, which I still have
, and my aunt had flown in for Christmas. Her family diced to go to the mall for some last minute Christmas shopping. We entered a game store and she asked if I wanted anything in particular. I saw that the store had Paperboy for Gameboy. She ended up getting it for me and I remember it costing around 30 dollars.So in that respect hand held games haven't changed in price that much. I got Pokemon White, when it came out, for 34. I also remember getting SNES and N64 games for around 60 to 70 dollars. Considering the N64, prices of games have come down for consoles.
PC is pretty much the same except for in the AAA department, which keeps up at 60 most of the time, thought with Steam and its sales, one only has to wait a few months for a sale to get the AAAs for much less.