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posted by malloc at 12:26 pm on 2007-10-27 |
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Nintendo: Friend codes are here to stay, no hard drive planned
Nintendo's in-house Public Relations manager, Eric Walter has revealed that there are no plans for a Wii hard drive despite the upcoming WiiWare medium. A lot of games submitted so far are quite small and you could fit quite a few on the Wii's flash drive. The way Nintendo view it is that you don't want to store every single game on your hard drive, when you buy a game you can do as you wish with it and that includes deleting and getting it again if you want. Walter was also asked about whether Monster Hunter 3 may break the friend codes to which Walter replied they have nothing to announce today but went on to say people don't mind friend codes and like them because it keeps their games 'undisturbed'.
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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.
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.
Now that Monster Hunter 3 is announced as a Wii exclusive, there's been some speculation that this game might be the first to "circumvent" friend codes, because it really hinges on group play, and friend codes can be somewhat unwieldy. Will there be some kind of solution to this?.
We're still discussing that; we don't have anything to announce today. But the way that we think about friend codes is, when folks are online, and they want to play, they typically want to play with their friends. And so, they want to keep it to groups of people they know. We've seen, in the feedback we've gotten, that people don't mind the friend codes. They like them, because it keeps them playing with the friends that they do know, and it keeps their games "undisturbed," if you will.
News Source: Gamasutra
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