@Captain_Gonru - "All your talk about prices got me thinking"

You really need to stop reading my posts, I'm always bringing you down.

I think there is a big difference between what is on disc and what we get to play Day 1. I think it's almost all on there, but like the amiibo missions it's locked. That's what happens w/ a mostly online game. It's up to their servers if they let us play it or not. Think about it this way, did you play the beta? Both those levels are on our HDD but we only got to play them for 3 hours so far. But we still have them. I think almost everything coming out this summer will already be on the disc - amiibo missions, moving platform level, other areas, other costumes. But we can only play it when they let us. Just like the incredibly stupid rotating 2 levels every 4 hours. That's my biggest WTF so far. There are only 5 available levels to begin w/ why can't we choose between those 5? If their servers can't handle 5 levels how are they going to handle 2? Most of th eother stuff - freinds matches, ranked matches, torunaments, will all be handled on the server side.

Now it won't be seamless, there will still be patches to DL and install, but even I'm not worried about space. Nintendo is the best in the business at making small file sizes. I think we will basically be downloading "keys" as it were, not the actual content itself. Still going to be an annoying as heck summer, but I really don't think I'd worry about the external HDD cost if you buy the disc. There will be some, but not much.

Hyrule Warriors has had 4 hefty packages and they were all really small.

I don't blame you for waiting. I've seen enough online stuff go kablooie on other consoles. If it were just me I'd wait, but me and the 2 kids can spend a long time playing single player and balloon battles while we wait for the servers to work.