The Wii gets a Storage Solution!

[derek.haines]

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/20...-solution-load-items-direct-from-the-sd-slot/

Finally, Nintendo does what should've been done all along: Let us load the software off the SD card. It's refreshing to see that they went with an obvious choice instead of something completely convoluted.

 

[Minato]

They should've done this in the first place since they didn't have a hard drive.

 

[Hayzeus]

Wow imagine how many screenies I could take.

But honestly how many of you have 2gig of dl'ed stuff?

 

[Bowser King]

Nice, simple solution. I still have some space left so I wont need to worry about this until I get more games (seeing the confrence, that's going to be soon).


-Bowser King

 

[notftomearth7]

so basically it is what we already do with the homebrew channel

 

[Hyper_Ridley]

So I guess this will be a Wii System Update?

 

[Brawlmatt202]

I'm still somewhat confused about the solution.

I mean, I know future games will be able to save directly on the SD card, but what about some of the other games I currently have?

 

[Crimson King]

Yeah, that's a cheap and non-annoying way to fix what shouldn't have been a problem.

Nintendo is just too lame to realize that memory cards aren't needed, and a hard drive is.

 

[Cashed]

Wow imagine how many screenies I could take.

But honestly how many of you have 2gig of dl'ed stuff?

For the Wii, 2 gigs should work absolutely fine (that is the largest size SD card it'll read, correct?). If this were the 360 or PS3 though, 2 gigs wouldn't be anywhere near enough. I have almost 4 gigs of Rock Band songs alone.

 

[The Executive]

If this were the 360 or PS3 though, 2 gigs wouldn't be anywhere near enough.

No kidding. MGS4 install alone is 4+GB, not to mention XBLM/PSN games actually take up more than 35MB of space. Also, what happens in February 2009?

 

[derek.haines]

For the Wii, 2 gigs should work absolutely fine (that is the largest size SD card it'll read, correct?). If this were the 360 or PS3 though, 2 gigs wouldn't be anywhere near enough. I have almost 4 gigs of Rock Band songs alone.

Like most SD card readers, it has the stated limit of 2 GBs, but then the in-practice limit of around 8. What it needs now is a firmware update providing SDHC support. That'd rock.

 

[Karptroopa]

Finally, Nintendo does something sensible!

Though they'll most likely have something inbuilt into that update to remove the new Homebrew Channel. D:

*hugs his channel*
*pow electrocuted*

Well, I've never had to delete any of my channels to download a new one yet, but my VC collection is slowly growing, so this will be of help when it's released.

 

[Sad Panda323]

They promised us that their solution would be better than a hard drive.

One question:

How is this better than a hard drive?

 

[The Executive]

One answer: It's virtually costless for Nintendo.

Cheap hardware tactics FTL.