Nintendo, as a company, has never been one to truly embrace change. In fact, it seems that the more Microsoft and Sony embrace something (in this case, internal hard drives), Nintendo does everything in it’s power to not embrace it. After all, Nintendo was the last company to make the change from cartridge to disc, and still hasn’t fully accepted either internal hard drives or online networking. However, if you asked Nintendo Europe’s Marketing Director, Laurent Fischer, about internal hard drives, he’d tell you that you didn’t need them.

In fact, according to Fischer, only “geeks and otaku” encounter problems with the 512MB of internal storage. Now, keep in mind that Wii owners can’t access games that aren’t on their systems, and the Wii Virtual Console has some 229 titles. That doesn’t take into account WiiWare titles, or other downloads you may have made.

Now it’s being rumored that Nintendo is working on an external hard drive that will connect via USB, so these “geeks and otaku” folk won’t have to worry about it for too long. But I have to say, you have to have a pair made of brass to throw a sizeable chunk of your demographic under the bus like that. That was just low.

via Shacknews

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