Wii storage solution

Another major announcement during GDC: Nintendo solved the Wii's storage problems.

Nintendo has revealed the solution to the Wii's storage problem. Nowadays, many gamers have to delete channels and virtual console games every now and then to make room for other games. Now, Nintendo has announced that, starting today, WiiWare and Virtual Console titles can be stored directly on SD and SDHC-memorycards.

Through the SD-icon on the new Wii menu, users can view the content of their SD-card and directly start the titles from there. There's one catch: you need to free up the equivalent amount of storage room on the Wii's internal memory first as the game will be ran from there.

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  Updated my Wii earlier and have been testing out the SD transfer and I have to say that it works perfectly. Loads games really fast and copies games over to the SD from the internal memory faster as well. Really, it's a wonder why they didn't allow this from the beginning because using it now makes so much sense both in a gaming sense and in a business sense as it's now more likely that more VC and WiiWare titles will be downloaded because you can now play them straight off of the SD card.

  ganepark32, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Since they were going to do that, then why didn't they just go head and enable the USB hard disc drive storage as well? Won't this solve the problem once and for all instead of running into the undeniable future where people complains that 2 ~ 4 gig of standard SD card is not enough?

  LeSomeGuy, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  The update allows the Wii to use High capacity SD cards (up to 32Gb of memory) so there really won't be any complaining about SD cards being too small. It's a decent enough solution and means that existing users don't have to go out and buy an expensive hard drive add on.

  ganepark32, 30-11--0001 at 00:00