10-14-2007, 02:42 AM
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A full Wii's like a full fridge, says Kaplan
You've got to clean it out, says NOA VP Perrin Kaplan, further dashing hopes for a hard drive.
October 13, 2007 - Speaking to Wired in an interview, Perrin Kaplan discussed everything from Wii Ware to Smash Bros., increased Wii supply and her departure from the company. Most interestingly, however, she provided a new explanation - and a new, Peter Moore-ish analogy - for Nintendo's reluctance to add hard-drive or SD card-loading support to Wii to ease the limit and annoyances of the internal memory.
"I think that Nintendo loves to have a really clean approach to what they're doing, and the idea is to not have too much of a packrat syndrome, where you've got so much stuff stacked up that… you want to just have products that you're actually going to continue to use," she said.
"Virtual Console's a really good idea. And it's on the server, so [once you purchase] it, it's always [yours]. You can download it again. So it's a matter of what do I want to play today. I think we also did the tradeoff: for the price, the size, the flexibility of the system, for us to do all kinds of things. Instead of having a huge box."
Peoples' memory is full though and it's often a labourous task to decide which games should be deleted to make room for more, Wired explained, before asking again whether there are any plans to change things.
"We're always talking," Kaplan replied. "But if your refrigerator's full, you've got to pull something out and put something else back in. That's just the normal issue of space. I mean, really, are you using every single thing on there?"
Be sure to check out the entire interview here, where Kaplan says, "I don't know that the PS3 has a lifespan yet," when asked how long Wii will last compared to its competitors.
You've got to clean it out, says NOA VP Perrin Kaplan, further dashing hopes for a hard drive.
October 13, 2007 - Speaking to Wired in an interview, Perrin Kaplan discussed everything from Wii Ware to Smash Bros., increased Wii supply and her departure from the company. Most interestingly, however, she provided a new explanation - and a new, Peter Moore-ish analogy - for Nintendo's reluctance to add hard-drive or SD card-loading support to Wii to ease the limit and annoyances of the internal memory.
"I think that Nintendo loves to have a really clean approach to what they're doing, and the idea is to not have too much of a packrat syndrome, where you've got so much stuff stacked up that… you want to just have products that you're actually going to continue to use," she said.
"Virtual Console's a really good idea. And it's on the server, so [once you purchase] it, it's always [yours]. You can download it again. So it's a matter of what do I want to play today. I think we also did the tradeoff: for the price, the size, the flexibility of the system, for us to do all kinds of things. Instead of having a huge box."
Peoples' memory is full though and it's often a labourous task to decide which games should be deleted to make room for more, Wired explained, before asking again whether there are any plans to change things.
"We're always talking," Kaplan replied. "But if your refrigerator's full, you've got to pull something out and put something else back in. That's just the normal issue of space. I mean, really, are you using every single thing on there?"
Be sure to check out the entire interview here, where Kaplan says, "I don't know that the PS3 has a lifespan yet," when asked how long Wii will last compared to its competitors.
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Wow... just wow.
Keep being idiots Nintendo... its really amusing.
Am I the only one who thinks Nintendo is just being lazy? I mean, sure we could delete games off our Wii to make room for more... BUT WHY SHOULD WE?! Its not too hard to allow us to use HDDs... oh wait, I forgot... this is what Nintendo are like when they have power apparently.
Stupid Nintendo.
Oh, and she also mentions that they are adding something special to Brawl that we don't know about. And probably won't know about. Curses. I must know more.