Updated 12/20/2018: New revision of this article here:
The Best external HDD for the Wii U is a High Endurance 256GB MicroSD card!
(Old copy below for historical reasons):
Updated 05/26/2016: If you are one of the 12 million Nintendo Wii U owners out there, chances are that you know how awesome the Wii U truly is. As you may recall with the regular Wii, there were the larger games found on disc and online shopping known as “WiiWare” that you could download. Because this downloadable content was rather small, it didn’t really take up much space on the internal memory system. And if you really needed more storage, there was always the SD card slot. No big deal.
With the Wii U, there are two models:
- The white model with 8GB of internal flash storage
- The black model with 32GB of internal flash storage
By today’s standards, both sizes are rather paltry. And now that it is possible to download full games directly to the Wii U, it is quite easy to fill up the internal memory. (Xenoblade Chronicles X… Super Smash Brothers… etc…)
What to do… What to do…