In speaking with Nintendo’s PR manager, Eric Walter, just last week, Gamasutra was able to get a few answers as to where Nintendo sees themselves at this time. One of the questions asked concerned the obvious need for a hard drive or other form of mass storage for the Wii, now that we’ve got larger NeoGeo and TurboGrafx-CD games on the Virtual Console as well as wholly original games coming via WiiWare. It’s not looking good for us packrats.
“…the way that we look at it is, we really don’t want people storing every single game they buy on their drive. When you buy a game, it’s yours forever, so you can delete it, and go back and get it at any time you want. In a way, we liken it to putting music on your iPod; you listen to it for a while, and then you get tired of it, and you pull it off, and you put some new stuff on.”
True, but at least when I don’t put something on my iPod, I still have a copy on my PC’s hard drive, if not the actual CDs themselves. Luckily, I haven’t really been filling up my Wii’s flash memory. But that doesn’t mean I don’t intend to…
