Satoru Iwata Talks Wii Memory Solution

I guess this might mean that a hard-drive of some sort is on the way then. Not much of an issue for me - yet - but I know of a few people who are genuinly concerned that they are going to be having problems soon.

There is nothing worst than companies putting spin on topics they dont want to face up to. Who did they interview? Mothers and grandparents who play wii fit/play/sport and have no intention of downloading a snes game. Any gamer will say they want a harddrive it isn't a small percentage unless they the normal gamer makes up a really small percentage

"Small number of customers".... yeah. Oh well, still, it's great they've awknowledged the problem, hopefully it won't be long now. It's getting ridiculous ><

Price to put up a poll on their official sites?

Not much. Quick and easy solution to see what we, the paying consumers, want and need.

Basically what it means is that only a small percentage of Wii owners are actually 'hardcore' gamers.

This is a major issue with the Wii, and I doubt anyone would say no to more memory options.

I think Nintendo know exactly what games all users own via our Wii Numbers and Wii Connect 24. As a result they will be aware of memory issues for some. All that info is freely available to them if a Wii is connected to Wii Connect 24. They know exactly what we have played on our Wii and even when. I think they now are starting to see that the onboard memory is being used up rapidly and with Wii Ware on the way that they need to provide a solution.

Lets hope something is revealed at E3. Matt C at IGN seems very confident something will be, without actually breaking embargo-

\"something Wii owners have been asking for from the start is on the way\", is what he said in a VC episode in January.

( Edited 01.05.2008 18:43 by Linkyshinks )

USB memory support would be nice.

At the moment I don't need it, but I have a 1GB USB Memory Key, and it would be nice if I could just plug it in and use it.

I don\'t think that\'s a long term solution at all myself, there is memory heavy content on the way and even a 2Gig SD is not enough. It would be a cumbersome short term solution. It could also cause piracy issues.

Nintendo will want to make money wherever possible, they currently do not make much on branded SD cards for Wii, and with good reason.

A Nintendo branded USB Wii HD is more likely.

( Edited 01.05.2008 18:59 by Linkyshinks )

I have a 250gb external drive, will that work? its usb.

nintendo better release a hdd

its not like we need a massive one. Hell, a 32GB usb stick would do.

But then again, that will be much more money than a standard HDD.

Please enlighten somebody who does not know...

Would it take a hardware change for the Wii to play dvd movies or is it a firmware/software issue?

If it is the latter, could an external hdd facilitate the playing of dvd movies?

Oh ffs, just use the SD slot properly, Iwata!!

Too little, too late.

cough hardrive?

You could buy Gigabyte SD cards for next to nothing when the Wii came out, what justification did they have for not giving it an adequate amount in the first place?
If it had say 10GB storage space, it would bump the console up by what, few quid at max?

I think Oni is right there...

Still though, i havnt maxed out my memory, but i dont use it like half you lot do, or as much as i should.

Ive got like 11 VC games on there (although only 1 N64 game) and i have most of the channels avaliable.

Still though, i am alright for memory just for now anyway. Thats with 512mb, i havnt even thought about using my 1gb Wii SD card for it yet.

What he says.
I haven\'t bought anything from the Wii store yet. I didn\'t even have internet on my Wii for the first year. A few months ago some homebrew boys got the Wii to play DVDs. So if that\'s true, it\'s definately not a hardware issue.

( Edited 01.05.2008 21:24 by Canyarion )

Exactly. I remember when they announced the 512MB internal memory I though "that'll be up to 1GB by the time it launches".

I think theres a few gamers, like me, that just dont care.
I dont mind redownloading, I dont see the need to have games physicaly. (as long as the prices reflect that).

Multiplayer games are the only real exception I can think off...Id probably want all of those instantly accessible.
But one player stuff?
I\'d only be playing 2 at a time at best. If I finnish a WiiWare game I\'m unlike to replay straight away.

Massive storage support is more a \"why not\" thing for me. I dont get why people think its so desperately needed.
(unless you got a dial up modem, that is :p)

( Edited 01.05.2008 22:05 by Darkflame )

512MB is nothing. I just got a 2GB MicroSD card for my phone. The card itself is like the size of your little pinky fingernail, and they go up to 8GB. My 2GB one only cost £7. 2GB isn't even that much. Enough for a few chunes.

Don't think the Wii supports SDHC technology, but you can get cards up to 16GB I think.

Recently got a 4GB SHDC card for £8.

I don't want an hdd. It's a device consuming power, it will always stay online and plugged in, because no one will unplug it when done.
Maybe sd-cards will do, they don't take up much space, power and are easy to handle. Plus you can reload things when you have lost your card.

Redownloading is not an option, because I don't want to manage my space. I want to have everything available right when I want it. Hell, sometimes I sit there and are to thick to get up and insert a DVD into Wii. Does Nintendo really think then I would redownload game XY from VC? It takes 10 minutes to do so: enter channel (i connects slowly!), check your downloads (the UI is way to slow to power-surf), check what game you actually have erased, maybe you forgot it. then redownload it, wait minutes until you N64 or Neo Geo title arrives.

I downloaded some games - in fact I have taken up to three sites on the dashboard - and got 350 blocks or so left. When Wiiware starts this will melt in no time.

When there's a memory-solution available, then all the companies will release DLC. I desperately want Guitar Hero tracks to be available, I want all the vintage songs from GH 1 and 2 and a lot of the DLC released for X360 and PS3. Companies even wont think about DLC if there's no memory solution available. It's easy to deny such a storage device, then it wont be considered being filled up by 3rd parties.

So direct access SD-cards up to... 16 GByte please, where you can store DLC, Wiiware and VC content, access it directly via Dashboard.

Yeah, direct SD cards would be the best idea.

problem is, some games CAN'T be transferred to the SD Card, like Smash Bros for instance.

So what do you do when your Wii is filled up with games like that? You can't do ANYTHING, except delete data, but why should we be made to delete data?

Also, I'm not sure how many people have done this already, but it takes AGES to transfer Channel data to and from an SD Card, and that won't do at all.

Yeah the Wii does not support SDHC due to the way the data is compressed in them.


(OT:Ive seen a new Microsoft HD that allows you to stick in numerous SD card into a housing device to use as a proper HD on your PC.