Wii U's Storage Space is Pathetically Tiny

Evaluation of Wii U's storage and expansion capabilities. Parody of common arguments against it.

[Schawk]

Unlimited external storage, dont panic it dosent take away from how good the wiiU is gonna be.
I cant wait

[Amazingmrbrock]

The only thing that would worry me about that would be the limited transfer speed of usb 2.0.

Which granted isn't a huge deal by any means, what an extra few seconds of loading here or there.

[Neonridr]

USB 2.0 transfer speed can support up to 35MB/sec which is still 3x the speed of the Xbox 360 DVD drive, and 4X the speed of the Playstation bluray drive.

[Rebo00]

The bottleneck is probably gonna be the device writing the data unless its an SSD external drive.

[dasteru]

@Neonridr:

That would depend on your point of view.

Alot of people don't realize that DVD and Blu-ray do not operate at the same bit rate for a given x speed.

The 12x DVD drive in the 360 alternates between 6.5MB/s & 12MB/s

The 2x Blu-ray drive in the PS3 runs at a constant 9MB/s

Every 1x increase in a DVD drive means a maximum increase of 1MB/s but it also dips to nearly half that at random points.

Every 1x increase in Blu-ray is 4.5MB/s with zero variation.

[chadboban]

Funny how a lot of folks will completely miss the "Parody" contained directly in the description.

[MegaLagann]

By folks you mean Mika.

[ninjabake]

I agree it is pathetic but at least you can add storage to it and external hdd's aren't as expensive as they used to be.

[Chrono]

That's the next gen, according to Nintendo.

[sidar]

Ah yes, storage space. The breaking point for " next - gen".

I can see why people might find this an inconvenient. Since this is Nintendo we should be happy there is a usb-storage solution. For all we know they wouldn't include it at all.

[Theyellowflash30]

Yeah Next generation is dependent on Storage Space that jacks up the price of a system......

[HappyCamper172]

Nice sarcastic article.

Love the About the author part.

Hope people get it. For those that don't let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sarcas...

[YoungPlex]

Funny, love how sarcastic he is! It's true and he has a point. The Wii U's internal memory was made for updates and eShop titles which it has plenty of space for, anything else will go on my terabyte hard-drive, (which I purchased on sale for about $80). To me this was the best option...

[stragomccloud]

I'm really starting to love this site.

[DivineAssault]

HDD+Wii U+Pro Controller+Game+Headset=$550.0 0... That is with quality accessories.. Nope, not for that launch list but if a game i like comes out, ill do it..

[Theyellowflash30]

Your math is off and you know it. Or your just a troll with 1 bubble