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rgraves

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Seems a big extra cost to get an external drive

It's £45 to get 1TB of storage . You'd never need any more. You could, if you really wanted, save a tenner or so and go smaller I guess, but anything less than 500GB and I think it'd be full in no time (so a false economy).
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Wiper

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It's £45 to get 1TB of storage . You'd never need any more. You could, if you really wanted, save a tenner or so and go smaller I guess, but anything less than 500GB and I think it'd be full in no time (so a false economy).

I've never even crossed 500gb on the PS3, and that's a system that has a massive selection of great, huge games to download built up over half a decade (including hefty old PS1 games, as opposed to Nintendo's tiny cart-based legacy titles), bolstered by two years of selected PS+ games*, so I wouldn't be so sure that everyone will face that risk.

That's the problem with this question, it very much varies depending on the user. You'd be hard-pressed to never exceed the Basic's integral storage even if you don't download any games, but above that there's massive variance between people's needs.

*I've not downloaded games I'm not interested in

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It's £45 to get 1TB of storage . You'd never need any more. You could, if you really wanted, save a tenner or so and go smaller I guess, but anything less than 500GB and I think it'd be full in no time (so a false economy).

I disagree, mainly because if the cost of a hard drive itself is an issue then purchasing digitally from Nintendo sure as hell will be. Therefore given it's likely less games will be purchased then a smaller cheaper drive also makes more sense, and you still could easily get 20+ games even on a 100GB drive.

edit: Zelda HD, Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Sonic Transformed, MH3U, SM3D World, NSMBU, Smash Bros U, Captain Toad, MK8, Zombi U, Nintendo Land, DK:TF, Wii Sports Club, Rayman Legends will cost you 80GB of storage space. And about three million pounds to buy.

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Smitty

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I don't need a tb, geez. I won't be buying many games for it just Nintendo stuff and select second party like Merrion Prime.

I'd just need a drive for 20 of something. What's the disparity between basic and premium? 80 quid? Better to buy basic and cheap drove.

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The other advantage of basic + drive is you can buy the drive when you need it reducing your upfront cost.

Personally I buy games on disk as they are miles cheaper and have resale value if I don't want to keep them. That and Nintendo's lack of a proper account system.

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Wiper

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The PS4 and Bone don't exist.

(or I was comparing it to the last generation consoles because I was describing it to someone who is, I assume, moving from a last-gen console. I could of course be wrong)

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toythatkills

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The other advantage of basic + drive is you can buy the drive when you need it reducing your upfront cost.

Personally I buy games on disk as they are miles cheaper and have resale value if I don't want to keep them. That and Nintendo's lack of a proper account system.

I'm with you on disks too, but I got downloads of Zelda, Pikmin, NintendoLand and Wii Party for free with Mario Kart 8, which has pretty much seen my Premium hard drive full to bursting. Another promo like that and I'm screwed, the basic would have been done in a second.

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Wiper

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I will admit that I did buy an official charger cradle for the Gamepad, but considering that at the time of purchase it cost me £2.80 from Videogamebox I don't really count that against the Basic.

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womblingfree

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I've got a 1TB drive I've had for years in a cupboard. Let's see how long it takes the 8GB to get used up.

Do I need the Wiimote control gubbins to play Xenoblade Chronicles, or will the Pro controller do?

So I can just use any 64Gb USB stick as added memory in the Basic, and it sits out the way at the back of the console? That's about £15, and way cheaper than the Premium upgrade.

Oh yeah, just use a 64gb USB for super-cheapy memory. Glad I got the Basic now.
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rgraves

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Nintendo don't recommend using USB flash drives, something to do with read/write cycles (especially on cheaper sticks). I've heard plenty of stories of people losing their data from them. It'll probably be fine for 99% of people, but just a warning that it's not an officially supported config.

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gossi the dog

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I've got a 1TB drive I've had for years in a cupboard. Let's see how long it takes the 8GB to get used up.

Do I need the Wiimote control gubbins to play Xenoblade Chronicles, or will the Pro controller do?

Oh yeah, just use a 64gb USB for super-cheapy memory. Glad I got the Basic now.

Pro Controller doesn't work with Wii games.

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rgraves

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Wii controllers work for Wii games. Simple rule - if the controller wasn't around when the game was released, it's not supported. The Wii U basically becomes a Wii - it'll act exactly like one, and support exactly the same controllers as the Wii did.

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Rowan Morrison

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Wii controllers work for Wii games. Simple rule - if the controller wasn't around when the game was released, it's not supported. The Wii U basically becomes a Wii - it'll act exactly like one, and support exactly the same controllers as the Wii did.

Except GC controllers, of course. Humbug.

I've not used up my 32gb yet, but obviously at some point I'm going to need an external drive. I grabbed a decent bundle offer, otherwise I'd have gone with a basic. The pad cradle is nice, but it's the storage that's the big difference and it's laughable in both.

Having said that, I've probably only got room on my PS4 for two more games, so the entire generation is fucked IMO.

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pulsemyne

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But you don't install games right, so the internal storage is just for downloading games from Nintendos bizarre store isn't it?

Most wiiu eshop games (indie stuff) is fairly small with only a few hitting over a GB in size. As others have said just buy a basic and stick a 64 gig usb in the back and you'll be fine. Hell you could buy one of the tiny ones and you'd never see it.

Also Nintendo are sneaky glorious bastards for releasing Captain Toad early.

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Has everyone else known about this premium points thing all along? I have just discovered that I have £25 in download codes, which is a very pleasant surprise! But I had absolutely no idea I was accruing this. And then they put the website link halfway down the store page, not at the top...

Not complaining at all, quite the opposite, but it does seem to be being handled in a very, well, Nintendo way...

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