Yeah I doubt we'll be seeing the Holographic Storage very soon. I'm betting they'll save that for later. It'll probably be improved SD card support. I don't know why they won't come out and say what it is. They're almost setting it up so that people will be disappointed. Why keep things secretive if they're not even going to live up to everyone's expectations?

Mm yes how else will we be able to store flash ads that scream "HELLO" at you

1. Not a hard drive = good, hard drives suck.

2. As I have said many times, reading games in real time from the SD Card slot *may not be fast enough*
The games we are playing arnt designed for SD card speeds, they are designed for (faster) internal speeds.


I think its partly software solution Nintendo is working on, to cache data from an SD card (or USB source) automaticaly on the internal SDD.
Nintendo needs to make it as easy to use/seamless as possible as well as secure.

I'm guessing that purhapes for external loaded games there will be an additional loading time, then it will play as normal.

I keep thinking the title says storage slut on the left hand bar thingy.

No they don't. HDDs allow for huge storage, huge data transfer speeds, and great reliability. I've had a ton of SD cards just randomly go on me for no reason, and start refusing to store any data, and wipe themselves, etc. Whereas I've never once had an issue with a hard drive. I've got a 10 year old 19GB HDD sat in my old computer. That computer holds a ton of porn, has had about 15,000 viruses, and not once did the HDD let me down.

Yet I've been through a fair few SD cards that have only been used for MP3s and photos. I think the Wii's storage solutions suffer due to Nintendo's unwillingness to just release a HDD for the system. If they just did that, all the issues would be solved instantly. Even if they adopt support for SDHC cards, which have much more decent storage capacity (I've seen 32GB ones, though they cost like from it's external storage.�100+), it's still flash memory that's not too great with intensive rewriting and such.

SD cards were only ever meant for small mobile applications like photos, MP3s and such (and even then they sometimes don't last that long). They were never meant to replace HDDs in home computing. Wii is not home computing in the traditional sense (desktop PCs, etc), but for running software from external storage, it's requirements from that external strorage are similar to what a PC requires. You evr see a PC, or even a laptop which doesn't have a HDD? I've seen laptops ditch floopy disc drives, even optical disk drives and most expansion ports, but I've never ever seen one to use flash storage in place of a HDD.

Wii needs a HDD, or some amazingly 'innovative' equivalent that is just as good. No flash-based card will be a worthy equivalent.



That's possible for ROMs, loading the entire game into RAM and then running it (in fact, that's how console emulation is almost always done). However, this will be a huge limitation for WiiWare games, if the whole game most be loaded into RAM. It was that same limitation that made PlayStation NET Yaroze games look like utter dog-shit, and make them almost NES-like, compared to disc-based PlayStation games, since the whole game had to fit in 2MB RAM.