Nintendo Mantra

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“Download, Store, Delete, Download. Download, Store, Delete, Download.”

Got it? Simple. Again then and with some gusto this time. “Download, store, delete, download. Download, store, delete, download. DOWNLOAD, STORE, DELETE, DOWNLOAD! DOWNLOAD, STORE, DELETE, DOWNLOAD!”

Ok, that’s enough. I don’t want anyone passing out and cracking their head on the floor. Blood makes an awful mess and it’s a nightmare to clean up.

Not a very hard mantra that, is it? And it’s not meant to be. It’s designed to be completely devoid of any hardness just like the Wii. Don’t believe me? Then go and shout some abuse at your Wii or even shout, “Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!” and watch it run away, clutching it’s little silver base between it’s legs. You’ll find your Wii much later hiding in a small crevice in the most remote corner of your home begging for mercy and some Wii Sports.

The Wii’s lack of hardness is not going to change. The best thing you could do is buy it a stick on tattoo or one of those leather wrist things that has pointy silver studs on it.

Seriously though this is a massive issue for Nintendo, their faithful fans and the rest of the Wii owners out there. The Wii needs a HDD. 512Mb storage just isn’t enough. The worse news I have heard this year so far, and this could be the worse news I’ll hear all year, is that Nintendo are standing their ground and refusing to develop a HDD. I think this is a catastrophic mistake.

But that’s not all. Oh no. I don’t for a minute think that this is the end of the story because you can bet that last packet of chocolate gold coins, you know the ones you hid in your sock drawer away from the rest of the family during the Christmas holidays, that some third party will come along and give us a shiny new 20 or 40 or even 60Gb HDD for the Wii. Nintendo will then very quickly get an official HDD to market, stopping briefly to wipe the egg from their corporate face.

So, eggs then; scrambled, over easy or sunny side up like the Gameov3r Forum