"You can plug in a full-on three terabyte hard drive if you want. I'll love you as a digital consumer," Nintendo America CEO and president Reggie Fils-Aime told Engadget. "The reason we did it that way is that the cost of that type of storage memory is plummeting. What we didn't want to do is tie a profit model to something that's gonna rapidly decline over time. We'll let the consumer buy as much as they want, as cheaply as they want."
I gotta say, this thing is GREAT! Good job Nintendo for actually having a decent network setup. I like seeing people chatting and drawing pictures when I turn it on, and while I'm on the main menu. Makes the console feel more connected than even ps3 or xbox. The Wii to Wii U transfer is kinda clunky, and the updates are SLOOOW, but overall I'm pretty impressed.
Also the gamepad reaches my toilet, with the door closed, with only a little hiccup maybe every couple minutes. So it goes way better than I expected. The toilet is somewhere between I would say 30-40 feet away and 2 walls separate it.
It came with NintendoLand but I bought NSMBU last night off the eShop. I'm going back and forth on whether I should get ZombiU. The reviews are kinda mixed, but almost every person I see post on the ZombiU threads on other forums thinks it's awesome if you don't play it like a run and gun shooter.
I like how Nintendo puts their releases up on the eShop the same day as they release in stores. So much more convenient for me since I don't have to drive an hour to a store to buy a game, and since Nintendo has the habit of releasing their games on Sunday, I won't have to wait until Monday any more to received it in the mail. This might not be feasible for 25GB games though.