Tag: Wii U

Back in May of 2015, the Wii U was still a thing. It was an amazing thing. But the Switch has come along and stolen all the glory.

Sure, the Switch is a lot of fun, but the Wii U is a solid low-cost Switch-like experience that’s worthy of exploring. But many are wondering how to store data on it.

In 2015, I lamented the fact that Nintendo missed an opportunity. The black and white versions only shipped with 32 and 8GB of flash storage, respectively. Most gamers would want to download all their games and after a few games, quickly run out of space.

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…