wiiboy101 said:

Well it states otherwise at Wii fan boy, they're not working on one. I totally agree with Nintendo's geek joke statement. There is a slot at the front of every Wii and guess what it's for, the Wii does not lack storage space as every Wii owner can own as many sd cards as they choose to. Therefor the storage is not limited and it's also portable and easy to use. Hard drives are 1950s technology, Nintendo doesn't put 1950s tech in its consoles. Flash is more stable and much faster than hard drives. Transferring from sd card to internal is something you do say once a year or at most monthly so the whole LACK OF STORAGE is a myth just as casual/kiddy/fad are also myths. All media, movie/picture files can be directly accessed from sd cards, only encrypted games, Wiiware etc can not. You only need a few games internally as you can only play one game at a time. The flash set up on Wii makes perfect sense.

B Darius said:

What Nintendo NEEDS to do is at least make the Wii play CD's & DVD's.

david k said:

Yeah but why give us 48 channels slots when I can only fit enough memory for 15 of mine, it takes ages to transfer both your saves and your games between the two, and it is the Wii that has limited storage. Wow it works with sd cards, but were we talking about SD cards, no we were talking about the wiis storage. Otherwise, PCs, Xboxs, Ps3s and Wiis have almost infinite storage space and we know that's not true.

lews001 said:

Completely and utterly disagree with You wiiboy101. I'm not sure WHY you think the HD is obsolete, and I hate to tell you, but it's much cheaper for me to buy 100 gig in a hard drive then 100 gig in SD cards. And yes, I expect to need that much space. I downloaded 3 wiiware titles, a dozen or so virtual console titles, and I'm out of space. I do not support "Transferring from sd card to internal" which you propose we do once a year or at most monthly. This is absurd. I should not have to worry about this. If I have friends over and they want to hop on and play a VC title, I should not have to go digging around for an SD card that may or may not be labeled with everything that is on it AND go through the hassle of transferring everything. Hard drives are not going anywhere anytime soon. This was a blunder on Nintendo's part in an attempt to be the cheapest console on the market. And I hate to tell you, but trying to stick up for Nintendo and say they don't use old technology in their equipment, do you REMEMBER the N64? Um ya, cartridges. That was the way to go in the cd era. And then the GC? Oh ya, mini-cd's. Again during the dvd era. SD is great, but it's not a very good staple for space right now, it'll be a few years before you can get a large capacity flash card for a reasonable price.

Jonny said:

In response to the above comment, the main reason why people wanted a hard drive, is because copying those 250+ games takes like way too long. If they could speed the thing up, or make the Wii menu boot directly off of the SD chip instead of manually having to load and delete the software, then we'd all be a lot happier. Especially if the loading for the SD boot menu only took a minute or so.

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Mike said:

I agree with wiiboy101 here, but here's a suggestion - I expect it to have been said before but why no DIRECT integration with Wii to the SD card, so you can run things STRAIGHT from the SD card without moving/deleting anything?

Mr Friend said:

I've got 6-8 VC games and save files for 20+ Wii games and haven't run out of space yet. What is it that is filling up other Wii's? I mean you could fit hundreds of SNES games on 512MB. Nintendo shouldn't worry about disk space until they release movies like the other consoles. But perhaps they know something we don't?

filipedyfolpedyflu said:

(@wiiboy101) I completely disagree, storage is a serious issue, SD cards lack capacity, maxing out at the super expensive (Not a statement I like associating with the wii) 16GB cards. Hard drives are cheap, have massive storage capacity and are easy to use, regardless of what these ignorant fan boys say, there is NO REASON NOT TO add support, it would be a simple software modification and would solve the storage problem instantaneously. Frankly, I don't care if you think it would take away attractiveness, if you don't like it, don't use it, simple as that. Don't come along and write about how bad a move it would be, that is just pushing your view which is created by your individual needs.

YoshLee said:

B Darius if Nintendo was to have a channel that played DVD's or CD's PS3 fan boys would whine "oh they copied that from sony" or some crap like that. Besides I don't buy consoles to watch movies, I buy consoles to play games. If I want to watch a movie I have a DVD player for that so DVD and CD playing seems like an unneeded feature that would be a waste of memory. I doubt Nintendo will make a channel for it.

Master Foot said:

There are advantages and disadvantages with BigN going with SD or HDD. As stated in a previous post, It would be easy to update the Wii to load games from the SD, but speed will definitely be an issue. On the plus side, doing so would keep the Wii streamlined an simple. On the other hand, marketing a HDD will complicate things for the "casuals". Personally, I would prefer a proprietary Nintendo HDD over SD mainly because the per GB cost of HDDs are lower than flash. If you have Wavebird receivers deicking out of your Wii then aesthetics are the last thing on your mind. Now excuse me while I decide between a 5400 or 7200RPM HDD for my PoS3.

filipedyfolpedyflu said:

It's just about getting the option people. OPTIONS. Won't effect you if you don't want it to. The reason I'm responding to this is part of a bigger problem I have with Nintendo lately, I love my Wii, but they keep locking me into an archaic system.

Son Ninja said:

Games don't take a lot of storage space as long as they don't have any media stuff in them such as FMVs. You could possibly store at least close to a hundred Super NES or a thousand NES games on the Wii console after downloading them from the VC. Even if you delete them, they are not permanently gone. You could always re-download them for free and play them again and again for as long as you wish. A hard drive can't do that though it really is annoying waiting for the download unless you have fast speed cable internet. SD cards are not too bad but they are not too good as well. Since they are small, they can also be easily lost.

wiiboy101 said:

Guitar Hero developers clearly stated downloadable content storage and direct usage from the SD CARD. Case rested.

Ian C said:

Please do, Nintendo, please do ⌐_⌐.