Your Wii's small 512MBs of internal Flash memory may be approaching its limits with all the VC games available (ours is), and Nintendo has today announced Wii Software (WiiWare), which will bring with it even more downloadable content for Wii.
So surely the rumours suggesting a Wii hard drive is in the works are true, right?
Nope. We posed the question to Nintendo after the Wii Software announcement, and the answer was definitive.
"No," a Nintendo UK correspondent told us, trashing hopes of an E3 revelation with a single word.
Oh well. Best stock up on some meaty SD cards, then. Read the our exclusive Wii Software Q&A with Nintendo discussing the ins and outs of the new download service to launch next year.
They'd deny it, even if there was. specially since e3 is right round the corner. They'll prob do a wii.2 sometime soon anyways, with a much larger hard drive between 4 and 8 gigs, dvd playback and really going out on a limb the ability to up scale games to 720p and it'll come with wii sports 2.
then i wont be downloading anything off them then,i am not getting into the same state as i have got with the 360 because MS have failed to release the bigger HDD here...at least its coming with 360
so,screw you nintendo,your machine is s**te,the fun factor wore off by boxing day and the only good thing about it is the VC games(and the fact thats its fully BC)
the current selection of games available for the system is utter s**t and very embarrassing........metroid and mario need to be released ASAP...only games worth having right now,is zelda that i finished a week or two after release and resident evil 4 that is a remake from last gen
whether the current sales mania dies down when other people realise this i dont know
its all about giving your customers what they want,360 have done it(dont know about PS3)...but if nintendo want the VC to continue being successful,as well as their new wiiware whatever,they are gonna have to bow to pressure and release a decent size hard drive
If Nintendo are going to go the downloadable games route then they need to seriously think about a HDD. You can't rely on people buying unoffical SD cards...
They'll prob do a wii.2 sometime soon anyways, with a much larger hard drive between 4 and 8 gigs
Why would they bother when you can get 4GB SD cards for what, Ł25?
And I'd imagine (though I don't know for aas fact) that the Wii supports SDHC. You can already get 8GB SDHC cards and they're going to go up to around 32GB if not more.
but those cards aren't much use really, as whenever you wanna play something of it you have to move it across from the sd card to the internal memory. The inclusion of a larger drive would do away with this, but still make sd cards as a viable way to move media and games around to a mates wii.
for me a hard drive isn't needed,well not yet. i refuse to have anything to do with the vc (did you know they buggered the pal vc f-zero x up) so the issue of room isn't a problem. f**k them.
They'll prob do a wii.2 sometime soon anyways, with a much larger hard drive between 4 and 8 gigs
Why would they bother when you can get 4GB SD cards for what, Ł25?
And I'd imagine (though I don't know for aas fact) that the Wii supports SDHC. You can already get 8GB SDHC cards and they're going to go up to around 32GB if not more.
I'm not 'hardcore' enough to have had to bother with hard-drives and SD cards, but why don't all next-gen consoles use SD cards if they're so much cheaper? Surely they're easier to store and move around too.
I would have thought Nintendo UK/Europe would be the last to know what's happening (after the Japanese and American offices, at least).
I'd be more inclined to think it will happen, because those original indie developed titles are probably going to make greater use of the Wii's features than typical Live like titles, and will probably require larger file sizes than what we think of as normal due to that.
Or perhaps they're being coy, because they won't call it a 'hard drive'...
They'll prob do a wii.2 sometime soon anyways, with a much larger hard drive between 4 and 8 gigs
Why would they bother when you can get 4GB SD cards for what, Ł25?
And I'd imagine (though I don't know for aas fact) that the Wii supports SDHC. You can already get 8GB SDHC cards and they're going to go up to around 32GB if not more.
I'm not 'hardcore' enough to have had to bother with hard-drives and SD cards, but why don't all next-gen consoles use SD cards if they're so much cheaper? Surely they're easier to store and move around too.
PS3 uses SD cards too, im playing Red Steel on my Wii
why don't all next-gen consoles use SD cards if they're so much cheaper? Surely they're easier to store and move around too.
Flash memory isn't cheaper. Which is why it's only been in a handfull of laptops so far.
Apple were going to have all future (portable) devices as flash memory, but it's still too expensive so I don't think they've moved over to it yet.
Personally I'm probably not going to buy a laptop again until the flash-memory ones are more available. Increases battery time as it doesn't have to power a 5200RPM spin constantly (plus quieter).
Nintendo have got a great strategy, and should keep the Wii the way it is.
Im sure they are already developing a new console with enhanced controls, better graphics and a hard drive and greater online options. They'd be best to leave the Wii alone, let it continue to sell out and get a few more games on it, and focus on a true next gen experience with a new console a few years down the line. The Wii is there cashcow at the min, they should just be milking it.
I imagine the reason behind not releasing a hard disk is so that they can cash in on people being forced to buy an endless supply of SD cards. They go up to 2Gb these days, so you can fit quite a bit of stuff on them.
The problem remains that currently you still can't save directly to them, so you have the extra hassle of saving to the HD then transferring it to SD, then having to switch it back to the HD when you want to play it. Bleh.
Seems to me they're kinda screwing themselves out of more download content without a hard disk. And the community. The ability to patch games, for instance, would be a welcome addition.
Nintendo have got a great strategy, and should keep the Wii the way it is.
Im sure they are already developing a new console with enhanced controls, better graphics and a hard drive and greater online options. They'd be best to leave the Wii alone, let it continue to sell out and get a few more games on it, and focus on a true next gen experience with a new console a few years down the line. The Wii is there cashcow at the min, they should just be milking it.
that would be a huge mistake mate!!!
if rthen customers will feel like as if they were fooled all the way. id say to leave the Wii as it is, its fun and my siblings, and nephews like it much. its also awesome for that unexpected party time. i like the cartoonish graphics since they fail to impress and let you more focused on the gameplay.
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