This is a good question. Can't I just make a partition to be used for the Wii U?
The answer cant possibly be no ...
This is a good question. Can't I just make a partition to be used for the Wii U?
This has already been confirmed by Nintendo as "no"
This is a good question. Can't I just make a partition to be used for the Wii U?
What a dumb fucking topic, taking 2 small examples and ignoring the huge D/L of Tekken that is there day one...Always good to have more storage than not have enough
I don't know about that. I'm already halfway through a 2.5TB drive for PC gaming, and I don't even have a quarter of my backlog installed.
No not that I know of. If so it's not common practice.Well I meant it as a general question really. Could you format one partition to be say.. FAT32 and the other NTFS or whatnot?
No not that I know of. If so it's not common practice.
Well I meant it as a general question really. Could you format one partition to be say.. FAT32 and the other NTFS or whatnot?
I'm buying a 32 GB SD card and calling it a day. I'm still using my 20GB hard drive in my 360 and 60 GB hard drive in my PS3. I won't need a ton of space.
I'm buying a 32 GB SD card and calling it a day. I'm still using my 20GB hard drive in my 360 and 60 GB hard drive in my PS3. I won't need a ton of space.
You can't run software off of an SD card on Wii U can you?I'm buying a 32 GB SD card and calling it a day. I'm still using my 20GB hard drive in my 360 and 60 GB hard drive in my PS3. I won't need a ton of space.
And since Wii U doesn't play media files, a large drive is even more pointless.
Is that confirmed? Nothing at all? :3And since Wii U doesn't play media files, a large drive is even more pointless.
File sizes are comparable.Pc gaming is a hell of a lot different than console gaming though.
Just partition a big drive and everything will be fine.
The 360 came out in 2005.This kind of banter is annoying to me. Didn't the 360 ONLY play WMA files at first? If it played anything at all at launch? I don't recall that you could even connect any external storage to it.
Why do people act like the features present for the birth of a system reflect how it will be throughout its lifespan?
I couldn't walk, talk, feed myself, or drive when I first launched, but boy, how things have changed now.
Before you go rush out and buy the biggest possible HDD for the Wii U, consider the following.
1 TB = 1024 GB.
2 TB = 2048 GB.
New Super Mario Bros. U is 1.8 GB.
Nintendo Land is is 3.2 GB.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition is 16.7 GB.
Wii U discs are up to 25 GB.
A 1 TB HDD can theoretically store 568 copies of NSMBU, 320 copies of Nintendo Land, 61 copies of TTT2, or 40 games at a full 25 GB each.
A 2 TB HDD can theoretically store 1137 copies(!) of NSMBU, 640 copies of Nintendo Land, 122 copies of TTT2, or 81 games at a full 25 GB each.
As external HDDs formatted for the Wii U won't be inter-operable with PCs, be sure to think about how many Wii U games you'll be downloading over the course of the generation before you waste money on an excessively large storage device.
The 360 came out in 2005.
If they wanted to do those things, theyd have done it at launch to match whatever the other guys had been doing.I'm aware.. I was present for the launch.. Was there a moral to this story that I was missing?
The 360 came out in 2005.
What if my HDD is about to die, how am I meant to back up? If the PC can't recognize the Wii U format.
What if my HDD is about to die, how am I meant to back up? If the PC can't recognize the Wii U format.
my premium 32GB will last the entire gen, I already know it
Drive don't "about to die" they just do.
If they wanted to do those things, theyd have done it at launch to match whatever the other guys had been doing.
File sizes are comparable.
And 2TB isn't that much more expensive than 1TB. Speed isn't much of a concern if you're running it over USB so there's no point in getting a blazing fast drive. Might as well trade speed for space.
I'd still go for a big HDD, they could be releasing some good stuff from shop store or whatever. They can add up fast. What about patches too?
"As external HDDs formatted for the Wii U won't be inter-operable with PCs"
they won't?
Im implying that they do not care. If they wanted those features, theyd have them to match the 360. Clearly Nintendo is banking on the Wii U being your streaming box for other services like netflix and hulu.You imply that it's not about getting licenses.
No, I think it's more because PC games have almost universally wanted full installs after the 90s passed. The lack of generations helps, but usually with each console generation the size of PC games leaps similarly (I imagine 75%+ of space taken by Steam games have come after 2005), but if you got all console games digitally/installed you could still run out of space easily, I thought I'd be fine with 250 GB for the PS3, but Plus decimated that notion.I just mean the fact that pc games can add up quicker because there is no console generations in the pc landscape. If they work, they work. There are also more games for the pc too. I wouldn't even go over 750 GB unless you are going to be buying a ton of downloadable games.
That kind of detail has fairly certain not been discussed to the mainstreamStupid techie question: If I had a 25GB game with lots of assets compressed, and transferred it to my HD, would developers decompress them on the HD for performance improvements or just leave them as is?