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Nintendo: Wii storage solution not necessarily hard drive,..
Nintendo: Wii storage solution not necessarily hard drive,..
VideoGaming247 - September 7, 2008
Submitted by noobie (468) at 10:46AM PST on September 7, 2008
Exciting. According to an interview in Spanish Ninty mag Club Nintendo, the Wii may not be getting a hard drive. Or maybe it will! Said Reggie Fils-Aime:
“I want the people to have the right expectations; we have never said that it will be a hard drive nor have we mentioned how we will fix this issue, but we are going to deliver a better way to store the games.”
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1kendle posted on Wii (Wii) at 8:08AM PST on September 8, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Wii storage solution not necessarily hard drive,..@noobie,
This is very interesting and has been talked about before in other news.
If this was to be a USB hardrive or thumbstick, you are limited to USB 1.1 from the Wii. While that may be great for music, save games, pictures, ect. you could find yourself with slower boot times with certain applications and extra game content.
SD card would be great since its easily transported and accessible, but you are limited to maybe 8gb?[ Newbie ] [ Level 5 ] [ Rank: 2488 ]bids
1lstormy10 posted on Wii (Wii) at 6:15PM PST on September 7, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Wii storage solution not necessarily hard drive,..@apujanata,
Nintendo has realized the need to use the SD in some situations for direct-access storage (e.g. SSBB with some stuff and Guitar Hero World Tour with DLC). However, I believe Nintendo is missing the vital component of allowing for playing Virtual Console and WiiWare games directly from the SD instead of having to copy back and forth.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 294 ]bids
1apujanata posted on Wii (Wii) at 5:45PM PST on September 7, 2008. RE: Nintendo: Wii storage solution not necessarily hard drive,..bids
12noobie posted on Wii (Wii) at 10:46AM PST on September 7, 2008. Article: Nintendo: Wii storage solution not necessarily hard drive,..Exciting. According to an interview in Spanish Ninty mag Club Nintendo, the Wii may not be getting a hard drive. Or maybe it will! Said Reggie Fils-Aime: “I want the people to have the right expectations; we have never said that it will be a hard drive nor have we mentioned how we will fix this issue, but we are going to deliver a better way to store the games.”[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 468 ]
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Currently, to the best of my knowledge, the Wii's SD slot is not compatible with SDHC (which is needed for the higher-capacity SD cards). This limits the possible storage using the SD slot to 2 GB.