Coery you are right. I bought the 8 gig Wii U with the exact same understanding. Now NOA releases a major franchise digital only with a file size of 16 gigs. I have to have a hard drive just to play this game. That is alot of money to pay just to play one game that in the end I'm basically renting from Nintendo. And since I won't/don't buy digital media, a hard drive would only be used for FF5.