Comments on: Jaffe slams Fischer over Wii storage comments

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:45:19 +0000

Score for Jaffe

By: wz

wz — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:26:42 +0000

I still think this is just rambling and the HDD will be there for christmas or even earlier.

Wasn’t there some rumour Nintendo is hiring USB hardware people lately?

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:49:03 +0000

Heh. I’m not sure he’s ever going to be doing interviews again, tbh. He’s stayed away for a long time now.

By: Spiral

Spiral — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:43:18 +0000

You could have fun with it Pat. Get completely bladdered yourself and see who can piss off the most fanboys before falling off their chair.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:35:52 +0000

Jaffe’s basically barking mad. =)

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:57:07 +0000

Ja. I’m not sure I’d like to interview him, to be honest. He’s a bit “unpredictable” from the look of it.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:50:04 +0000

I took it as a compliment. I guess it helps that I’m not an anglophone. I like it when people call me a geek.

Any way. I love Jaffe. That video when he’s drunk at the mansion giving a Sony PR person an earful is comedy GLOD

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:49:47 +0000

Yeah, it wasn’t the cleverest thing in the world. I just hope he wasn’t misquoted, etc.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:48:08 +0000

It shouldn’t go away. It was an idiotic thing to say and the latest in a reasonably long line of “fuck you gamers, we don’t need you any more” sneers from a Nintendo that’s getting too big for its boots.

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:45:11 +0000

Just asked Nintendo for an official comment. I thought it was a flash in the pan, but it really isn’t going away. The story broke on Sunday, I think.

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:44:21 +0000

Go Jaffe!

The “geeks” comment was a bit misguided, but I do sort of agree – there really isn’t much of a need for a Wii hard drive. All they need to do is sort out the problem of not being able to play Virtual Console and WiiWare games direct from an SD card and then you’ve got your storage problems all sorted.

Anyone who needs more than 2.5GB of storage on their Wii (2GB SD card + 512MB internal) will be very much in the minority and really, swapping to another 2GB SD card isn’t a hassle.

I just don’t think making a HDD for the Wii would be profitable for Nintendo, so I don’t blame them for not doing it.