Nintendo PR: we break the news. Okay, we don’t.
Running out of space on your Wii? Joke from a year and a half ago: Wait, you haven’t heard of all-natural Enzyte? Joke from today: just delete it and re-download it anytime!
Wait, you’re not laughing at either of those? Well, unfortunately, you’re gonna have to live with the second joke, well, at least according to Nintendo Public Relations manager Eric Walter. In a recent interview with Gamasutra Walter tows the Nintendo line:
Gamasutra: Another WiiWare question — considering the Wii has a rather small flash drive, how many titles will it be able to hold? For example, even though Crystal Chronicles on WiiWare is not going to be large, it might be difficult to have even ten games of that volume.
Walter: A lot of the games for WiiWare that have been submitted so far are smaller in size, so they’re not gonna take up a ton of your drive. But 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.
We’ve heard this reasoning before from Perrin Kaplan, who likened the Wii to a refrigerator. Another piece of information from PR-woman Kaplan: the Wii will be region free. So, please take any “breaking news” revealed by PR people with a grain of salt. News on the scale of hard-drive/full SD card support will probably, if ever, be revealed by Mr. Iwata himself.
- Rob O’Reilly
Gamasutra Interview
Image Credit: Folkert Oosting (Why thank you, Google Image Search)
