Nintendo promises storage solution for Wii owners
- July 24, 2008 15:18 PM PST
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A long-term storage solution for Wii is a matter of when, not if, says Nintendo.
"In our view, this is becoming much more of a mainstream problem, which is why we have a sense of urgency to solve it," said Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime, in an interview with MTV News last week. "It's an issue we are aware of, and we're working to find a solution, and we will," he promised.
Unlike Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the Wii does not support hard drive storage for downloads and game saves. Rather, there is only 512MB of internal flash memory, which discourages avid Wii owners from downloading content and making new purchases.
Downloaded games and additional Wii content can be transferred to SD cards or deleted and re-downloaded for free, but it's inconvenient to say the least.
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- Jul 24 2008 at 03:19:34:PM PST
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hah yeah, just like they promised "several new titles for the core gamer"
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only a few monthes ago they were saying that more memory wasn't needed nor important. Maybe the $$$ signs for new downloadable games made them rethink that stance. Honestly the limit discourages me from downloading titles, because i'm not about to download, delete, and re download.
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[url="http://www.partydisk.com/"][url="http://www.partydisk.com/"]I hope they find a solution to the problem soon, becuase I can't even save games anymore becuase my Wii is filled all the way.[/url][/url]
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Unless for demos and movie service, a hard drive for the Wii is really not that important. Now a days you can find a 4gb sd card for 15 dollars, and every single US NES game takes up 127 mb, uncompressed. Every single US SNES game fits into a regular CD compressed. I would be more interested if they aloud games to be played directly of an SD card, though I'm far from filling up the internal memory. So unless for Wii game demos or videos, getting a hard drive for the Wii would be a waste of money for me. By next year a 16gb sd card will probably cost 70 dollars, and I prefer flash memory than a mechanical hard drive.
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nintendo should find a solution to their game lineup from 1st party to 3rd party
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i am only using up half of my Wii space so far so not a concern for me at moment
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