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Wii U Color Discrimination!!!!
ShoothimNow:
Wasn't the original X-box only 8GB? And that was what? November 15, 2001? Thats only a difference of about 10 years and 303 days (give or take). Way to go Nintendo on updating technology! WOOT!
Superchop:
Well...What would the 8 gigs really be for anyway? The Wii's internal memory was some 516 megs? it wasn't even a gig and a lot of people did fine :\ some may have needed to buy an sd card but those can be bought for dirt cheap. And really if anything, the Wii U will recognize external hard drives so even though the system itself is only 8 gigs extra memory can also be bought for prety cheap.
But unless the Wii U does what the ps3 does and require some games to actually be installed I don't see the 8 gigs really be an issue.
But then again, I'm gonna wait till the price lowers on the system and who knows...maybe in a year or so they'll have different versions with more memory for less
wiggy:
--- Quote from: ShoothimNow on September 14, 2012, 11:38:17 AM ---Wasn't the original X-box only 8GB? And that was what? November 15, 2001? Thats only a difference of about 10 years and 303 days (give or take). Way to go Nintendo on updating technology! WOOT!
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20GB iirc.
Either way, Nintendo needs to get with the effin' program. The Wii has like 512MB, right? That's insane. My Apple Quadra 650 had a 500MB HD, and that was in 1994. Lameness.
pumanchero:
--- Quote from: wiggy on September 14, 2012, 03:05:01 PM ---
--- Quote from: ShoothimNow on September 14, 2012, 11:38:17 AM ---Wasn't the original X-box only 8GB? And that was what? November 15, 2001? Thats only a difference of about 10 years and 303 days (give or take). Way to go Nintendo on updating technology! WOOT!
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20GB iirc.
Either way, Nintendo needs to get with the effin' program. The Wii has like 512MB, right? That's insane. My Apple Quadra 650 had a 500MB HD, and that was in 1994. Lameness.
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True, my first ever PC (a 486) had 400 MB and was a blast back in January of 1995.
tbonesteak4dinner:
--- Quote from: superchop on September 14, 2012, 01:41:59 PM ---Well...What would the 8 gigs really be for anyway? The Wii's internal memory was some 516 megs? it wasn't even a gig and a lot of people did fine :\ some may have needed to buy an sd card but those can be bought for dirt cheap. And really if anything, the Wii U will recognize external hard drives so even though the system itself is only 8 gigs extra memory can also be bought for prety cheap.
But unless the Wii U does what the ps3 does and require some games to actually be installed I don't see the 8 gigs really be an issue.
But then again, I'm gonna wait till the price lowers on the system and who knows...maybe in a year or so they'll have different versions with more memory for less
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+1. I still have my original 12GB hard drive on my Xbox 360 (Those didn't even come with storage back then...). That was way MORE than enough for me, since most movies stream now (even from Zune, yes?). I don't think anybody really ever buys and actually downloads movies onto consoles. Or at least you shouldn't since you have no rights when it comes to downloaded content... ;)
8GB should be more than enough for Virtual Console stuff as well. Ocarina of Time is what, 32 megabytes? And that's a big one....
And do you guys really want another system with first party branded hard drives and storage? Xbox 360 hard drives cost STUPID amounts of money for how much space you're getting, and they don't come with much internal storage (my new slim came with 4GB....). At least the WiiU will give you up to 32GB and the option to use non-first party branded storage. (Yes, I know the 360 allows this, but only for personal music and videos, etc.)