5th May 2011, 10:16 AM
How the hard drive is used on the 360 is a gimmick. Uploading your game but still needing the disk in the drive? The largest XBLA game is 2gig this includes downloading original XBox games. Most are 150MB+
The Wii has 512MB, yet i have around 15 games downloaded on the thing. This juggle of compression and emulation allows for tiny game files and a 8Gig internal memory is fine to me. Show me the must have reason for a HDD. Movies? Netflix. Uploading your entire game? Stupid. The Wii2 will, most likely, play Gamecube and Wii titles. Everything else is on small emulation files.
The only factor is original download only software. Is 8Gig (rumored) enough? Shadow Complex was 800MB, while that nearly takes a whole gig from my 8 for a HD game of that size and scope i'd be willing to take the storage hit. Hell, I could download 5 games like Shadow Complex and have room left over for tons of virtual console and plenty of save game space. When i hit the ceiling and run out of room, I just delete something i dont play or move it to an SD card. Ultimately the question is cost, am i willing to juggle a little in order to keep cost down? Are you?
The Wii has 512MB, yet i have around 15 games downloaded on the thing. This juggle of compression and emulation allows for tiny game files and a 8Gig internal memory is fine to me. Show me the must have reason for a HDD. Movies? Netflix. Uploading your entire game? Stupid. The Wii2 will, most likely, play Gamecube and Wii titles. Everything else is on small emulation files.
The only factor is original download only software. Is 8Gig (rumored) enough? Shadow Complex was 800MB, while that nearly takes a whole gig from my 8 for a HD game of that size and scope i'd be willing to take the storage hit. Hell, I could download 5 games like Shadow Complex and have room left over for tons of virtual console and plenty of save game space. When i hit the ceiling and run out of room, I just delete something i dont play or move it to an SD card. Ultimately the question is cost, am i willing to juggle a little in order to keep cost down? Are you?