Sources at Kotaku and other web sites such as 1-up.com  are suggesting that the new Nintendo hardware, call it the Wii 2, Project Stream, or Cafe it doesn’t really matter at this point, will NOT have a Hard drive storage solution to match the X-box 360 or the PS3. It is suggested that the Wii 2 will offer 8GB of internal  flash-based storage instead of a hard drive. This seems to me to be a mistake based on what we know as current generation HD consoles. With such a relatively small amount of storage space  installing games , playing HD movies, downloading massive amounts of retro Nintendo classics and well doing may of the things the current HD consoles can do will not be an option for the Wii2. Of course, these specs can and often DO change in the time span of an entire year. We also know nothing of the “next big thing” from Nintendos Wii 2. Perhaps the  highly rumored streaming LCD controllers will make up for the lack of storage and we as gamers will be playing the next Nintendo system in all new innovative ways, making the lack of HD space irrelevant.  However, for now, it does seem silly that the next big thing in videogames, one that is rumored to be taking back the lost Nintendo hardcore market and one that out preforming the PS3 will be no problem, does not have a hard drive. As with all the wii2 news as of late, it is not 100% confirmed so, hopefully things will change in the next year as far as hardware specs are concerned, or the system will be so innovative that we wont even notice a hard drive absence. But for now, if true, count me as initially displeased.

Will cool controllers make up for no Hard Drive ?