Forget the hard disk - Kaplan’s simple storage solution: buy more SD cards
Remember Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo’s departing US Vice President of marketing, and her comments that the Wii is like a fridge, in order to justify the ludicrously small memory space of the console? That is, you have to take something out in order to put something back in since you’re hardly going to need everything all at the same time, are you?
Well, here she is again, reiterating her statement in a rather blunt reply during the first of a two-part interview with MTV’s Multiplayer blog.
Multiplayer: That “Final Fantasy†[WiiWare] game in Japan looked pretty nice. I don’t think I could fit that on the system.
Kaplan: Well, you’ll have to get an extra card.
Multiplayer: Maybe I’ll have to buy a second system and save it onto the second Wii.
Kaplan: You’ll just have to have a lot of extra cards.
Part one of the interview ends there, but we’d like to think it actually ended with an uncomfortable silence, as Kaplan grinned a halfway smile and the interviewer fumbled with his notes. Anyway, you heard the lady. No reason to take advantage of the technological wonder that is the hard disk. You’ll just have to buy an extra card because it’s your fault for downloading too much.
Elsewhere in the interview, Kaplan also appears to wriggle out of a firm answer to the question of getting Bungie to develop for Wii. When asked if they’d like to have them over, she didn’t reply with “Oh, God! Of course!” No, her words were “Hard to say. I think it comes down to innovation and creativity. I think they would have to present what it is their idea would be.” Kaplan, you fool. Their idea would be for your company to pocket another few million on the basis of an established pedigree and a rabidly enthusiastic fanbase.
Next week: Kaplan reveals that Mario Galaxy will be coming out on 856 floppy discs and that all of Rare’s N64 games were actually rubbish.
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