Nintendo Announces Wii Storage Fix

Oct. 2 5:08 PM by Alicia Ashby

So! Between the Tokyo Press Conference and the North American conference in San Francisco today, Nintendo announced the hell out of a storage solution for the Wii. Currently fans are expected to delete titles or transfer them to SD cards.

Nintendo's solution to the inadequacy of SD cards is going to be... more SD card support. Nintendo is announcing a firmware upgrade for the Wii this spring that will include driver support for downloading games and DLC (presumably) directly to SD cards. Material downloaded directly SD or copied to SD after the upgrade will be playable directly from the SD card with no need to transfer it to the Wii's internal hard drive. Presumably the driver upgrade will also make it possible to not, you know, need an hour to transfer TG-CD games to an SD card.

This isn't at all the hard drive people were wanting, but it will make ravenous consumers of WiiWare, DLC, and Virtual Console titles possibly maybe a little bit happier. That said, if you didn't want to invest in SD cards, between this and the DSi, you're screwed.

Comments

I will wait to see what kind of speed issues and size limitations they place on the cards before running out and grabbing any. I have not been a giant fan of SD cards - or flash memory in general - up to this point.

 

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