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The whole debate about the Wii hard drive always gets tied together with WiiWare and the potential it possesses. Many consumers felt that Wii's seemingly paltry 512MB of internal memory could not possibly be enough for these developers to stretch their wings. This spurred on many rumors around the online community of the possibility of a "Wii hard drive", to be used for external storage for Virtual Console games, WiiWare apps, and downloadable content.
To the dismay of many, this rumor was slapped down by a representative of Nintendo UK, who just bluntly said "no". This somewhat arrogant stance was recently backed by Nintendo of America Public Relations manager Eric Walter:
"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."
Nintendo doesn't have a good answer and they know it. If this is the best defense they can come up with then they've failed to convince many people that a hard drive still isn't necessary. In related news Guitar Hero III shipped for Wii today. It's identical to say the 360 version of the game only lacking downloads. I wonder why...
