Topic: Why "blocks"?

I'm just curious, what's the reason the eshop always talk of blocks instead of GB or MB, its really inconvenient

How is it inconvenient to you?

Because Nintendo marches to the beat of their own drum, for better or worse.

It's more easy to understand, the game is 80 blocks while you have 140 blocks instead of the game 80 MB and you have 2 GB.

Pretty much. It's a much simpler way of understanding the Bite conversions from mega to giga.

Interestingly, they stopped doing it with the Wii U. They now use MB, which I find kinda funny after I got used to divide by 8.

it bothers me because when you buy an SD card you think in terms of Gigas no Blocks

8 Blocks = 1 MB. It's not that hard of a conversion to do.

Blocks are just an easy way of explaining data so even the most simple and newest gamer can understand.

I think it's a cute feature of the system. I don't mind watching the little colored blocks getting dropped into the game icon box thingy.

Also, it's easy to figure out how many blocks there are in 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32GB. Pretty simple math, and unless you are constantly buying SD cards, you'll probably only calculate it once or twice.

huh? why would it be easier??
mega to giga is simple and everybody knows the difference because it is used on every device. blocks is only with nintendo products.
it would be way easier if it said "game is 120mb" than "xxx blocks"

I'm with you there... it irritates the crap out of me

You're forgetting that Nintendo aims their products to be used by all members of the family: young, old, technologically illiterate. Not just gamers. The amount of people I know who don't know about the Megabyte to Gigabyte conversion (or even know what bytes even are) I couldn't count on my two hands.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan, until somebody said how many block=1 MB in this forum I really had no idea.

I don't see how "blocks" are easier to understand and convert than a base 10 metric system, but okay.

i dont care - they obviously made it for the kids
lots of children don't understand all this MB/GB stuff yet and it's confusing to them, so they went with "blocks"

it might be weird to us, but this way everybody gets it

I get the feeling that if they are that young they won't be checking to see how much memory they have left or how much memory the game takes up anyway.