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Nintendo's Wii Storage Solution — SD Cards

Posted by Soulskill on from the 2gb-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.

Lucas123 writes "After gamers complained for the better part of a year, Nintendo finally came out with a solution to the Wii's lack of storage capacity — a 2GB SD card from which users can execute games, adding to the console's measly 512MB of onboard storage. The card is expected out in the Spring. With the ability to download, the card should allow users to store up to 60 games." This news came out of the same press conference that announced the Nintendo DSi we discussed earlier today. They made a number of other announcements as well, including Gamecube remakes for the Wii, updated to make use of the Wiimote, Club Nintendo coming to North America this year, and the Wii Speak Channel, an online voice chat utility.

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  1. "Proprietary" by Moryath · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because they already soaked a lot of people buying SD cards for the Wii... hands up if when you bought your Wii, there were peripherals in the bundle (extra controller, 1GB SD card, etc) that they were pushing like there was no tomorrow.

    Now Big N wants to soak the user again (at one hell of a markup compared to market price on a normal SD card) and still give them barely enough space, unless they buy more than one.

    Countdown until some morally better people reverse engineer this and offer up a solution to just enable your OWN SD card to work as a "wiicard" in 3...2...1...

  2. Re:blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yeah, too bad they probably don't have capable hardware in the machine.