Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty may have launched for PlayStation 4 back in July, but Wii U owners are still waiting for the game to arrive on Nintendo's console. Series creator Lorne Lanning recently appeared on the Fragments of Silicon podcast to talk about New 'n' Tasty, and it sounds like the lack of a hard drive in the Wii U is posing some issues.

New 'n' Tasty is not cancelled on Wii U. We are currently having challenges with the platform that we are striving to overcome.



— Oddworld Inhabitants (@OddworldInc) October 17, 2014

"We’re having challenges with not having a hard disk, but we’re trying to overcome those challenges," said Lanning. "We have a significant amount of money and time invested in trying to resolve that issue, but if I guaranteed it, I might be silly."Lanning's comments appear to be primarily directed at the Wii U Basic model, the 8GB console Nintendo has slowly "rebalanced" in availability since last year. "If you're going to make a Wii U game, it better run on the 8GB unit," said Lanning. "Otherwise, it's not really a Wii U game."The Oddworld Inhabitants twitter account responded on the subject on Friday, stressing the company is trying to work through the issue."Regarding Wii U, while supporting the 8GB model is a consideration, it is neither a dealbreaker nor the only challenge," reads another tweet.Strangely enough, Lanning says at least part of the reason for the absence of the original Abe's Oddysee on a Nintendo console was due to storage limitations. All the pre-rendered video couldn't fit on a cartridge.

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