By any measure the Nintendo Wii has been a tremendous success. Thanks to its low price and innovative design the Wii continues to outsell all other next generation consoles. It’s fast, quiet, and cool. So why mess with success?
That’s why I’m always puzzled when people request Nintendo put a hard drive on the Wii. ComputerAndVideoGames.com writes “Have you filled up your Wii’s internal memory yet? We have and it’s bloody annoying.” Well I haven’t and I’ve been playing it hard since buying one from a scalper ebayer last Christmas. CVG writer Mike Jackson takes Nintendo to task for the omission. But he fails to mention that the latest XBox 360 Arcade version doesn’t have a hard drive either. The PS2, probably the most popular game machine ever, doesn’t have a hard drive.
With “storage in the cloud” of the Internet, and with solid state options like flash memory, hard drives are completely unnecessary. Suppose the Wii did have a hard drive. You know what the next complaint would be: “The Wii hard drive isn’t big enough,” or maybe “It’s too noisy,” or “It’s too expensive”. There’s no pleasing some people.
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