You need to do so, but formatting will erase anything stored on the hard drive. Turn on the console and you will be told to format the drive. To use the drive with the Wii U, first turn off the console and plug the drive into the USB port at the back. Game data needs to be accessed continually in order to run, so a USB stick is not suitable. They say that this is because flash storage has a limited number of read/writes that are allowed. However, any drive that fits the above specifications should work perfectly fine on the system.īear in mind that Nintendo does not recommend using USB sticks to expand the console’s storage. Nintendo does have a list of drives that they have tried and tested to work on the Wii U. That means if you have something like a 4 TB drive then you will only be able to store games on half of it. However, although you can now use larger drives, the system can still only access 2 TB of the data. Providing the console is up to date then you can use a drive of any size, as previously 2 TB was the maximum drive size allowed. The drive has to be powered externally or it has to use a Y-cable to use two USB ports on the Wii U.
This time round, Nintendo’s console can be expanded with USB hard drives. If you are going to be downloading a lot of games then chances are you will want to expand this storage space at some point, especially if the eShop will be your primary way of consuming games. However, some of that space is used by the system software, meaning you will have 3 GB and 25 GB of storage space respectively. The Wii U comes in two sizes: 8 GB for the basic model and 32 GB for the premium. This time round, Nintendo have changed their act with the Wii U, with their eShop now offering indie games and major retail release to download. Part of this was down to the limit storage space of the console. One of the issues with the Wii was that it wasn’t big on digital distribution.
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