So basicly a hardrive is confirmed now?

With WiiWare titles coming up Nintendo is basiclly screaming HARDDRIVE!!!!!

I mean they have a F-ing FF game on there.

Hopefully. But I read in a recent Perrin Kaplan (sp?) interview, that they're treating Wii like a refridgerator. You take stuff out and put stuff in, like when you delete games to make room for new ones.

In my honest opinion, that's a stupid approach. Nowadays, games take up too much memory. They NEED to release a hard drive.

Hopefully. But I read in a recent Perrin Kaplan (sp?) interview, that they're treating Wii like a refridgerator. You take stuff out and put stuff in, like when you delete games to make room for new ones.

In my honest opinion, that's a stupid approach. Nowadays, games take up too much memory. They NEED to release a hard drive.

LOLhahaDEAD

When I heard about that I thought, the Wii's memory is a mini-fridge, I want an upgrade! :P

I dont see a posibility of hard drive atm, maybe in 6 years when wii lite comes out...but nothing till thenXxXdoggersXxX

Wii Lite? 6 years?

Problems with that statement: A. Wii Lite probably won't ever happen, and B. If it does, it'll be in less than 6 years.

Alright so I missed something here... Wiiware? and FF? Someone explain please!RedNight55

You really don't know? WiiWare is a service much like XBLA, developers can make simpler games for the service and then we can download them like the V.C. A new FF game has been announced for the service too!

Hopefully. But I read in a recent Perrin Kaplan (sp?) interview, that they're treating Wii like a refridgerator. You take stuff out and put stuff in, like when you delete games to make room for new ones.

In my honest opinion, that's a stupid approach. Nowadays, games take up too much memory. They NEED to release a hard drive.

LOLhahaDEAD

Basically, she needed to make up an excuse as to why the Nintendo Wii is absolutely perfect in every way but still doesn't have a hardrive or a way to store a large amount of content in its memory. It's exactly the same situation with the PlayStation 3 and rumble in the Sixaxis controllers. Phil Harrison had to make up the excuse, which was that rumble was a "last generation feature" when really, they just couldn't settle the lawsuit with Immersion before the launch of the PlayStation 3 and they had to release the console with rumble-less controllers, only to reveal the new controller design with rumble less than ten months after the PlayStation 3's launch.

I dont see a posibility of hard drive atm, maybe in 6 years when wii lite comes out...but nothing till thenXxXdoggersXxX

Really? Care to tell me how this: http://wii.ign.com/objects/142/14209899.html will fit on less then 512 mb?

Probably. A company already said Nintendo is using their software and hardware. (This company manufactures hardrives and memory units)Duckman5

Ya, I read it in your blog.

i got a 4 gig SD card so i am not worriedXxXdoggersXxX

I hope you realize that you can't play games off of your 4 gig SD card.

[QUOTE="XxXdoggersXxX"]i got a 4 gig SD card so i am not worriedNintendoes

I hope you realize that you can't play games off of your 4 gig SD card.

Or even use it on your Wii. It's limit is 2 gigs.

Possibily. However at the moment Nintendo is still fixated with the idea of downloading something and deleting it to make room and being able to download it again without any extra cost, so I still don't see it happening for a while. shadowlink797

theextracostismydownloadquotafrommyisp:(

Given that Wiiware games are supposed to be "low key", I don't expect most to be much bigger than your average N64 game (some might be as small as SNES games).

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[QUOTE="XxXdoggersXxX"]i got a 4 gig SD card so i am not worriedDark_Knight6

I hope you realize that you can't play games off of your 4 gig SD card.

Or even use it on your Wii. It's limit is 2 gigs.

More accurately, the limitation is to SD1.1 cards. Most 4GB cards belong to the SD2.0 (SDHC) standard, which the Wii does not support. There are however a tiny handful of 4GB cards designed to use the old standard. These do seem to work with the Wii.

As soon as WiiWare was announced, the possibility of a hard drive sky-rocketed. If Nintendo wants people to buy games via a downloading service, they need to provide more memory. Since WiiWare will probably launch in Japan well before the US, all we can do is watch that market. If, for some reason, Nintendo decides not to release a hard drive before the Japanese launch of WiiWare, then we'll be able to see if it's possible for a Wii owner to be content with the current memory storage. But my guess is that Japanese consumers will be just as hungry for convenience as we are, and they'll be begging for improved memory.

Or maybe Nintendo announce hard drive support for Japan before WiiWare launches. In that case, we'd know that it would eventually be a world-wide feature.

And if WiiWare launches worldwide in March.... then we'll get our confirmation even sooner. I think it's a matter of when, not if. So basically a hard drive is not confirmed, but it might as well be. ;)

yeah, i hope its support for third party ones if it happens because first parties are always ripoffs.shoeman12

Wow, a republican wii owner ***shakes head

Given that Wiiware games are supposed to be "low key", I don't expect most to be much bigger than your average N64 game (some might be as small as SNES games).

[QUOTE="Dark_Knight6"][QUOTE="Nintendoes"]

[QUOTE="XxXdoggersXxX"]i got a 4 gig SD card so i am not worriedThePlothole

I hope you realize that you can't play games off of your 4 gig SD card.

Or even use it on your Wii. It's limit is 2 gigs.

More accurately, the limitation is to SD1.1 cards. Most 4GB cards belong to the SD2.0 (SDHC) standard, which the Wii does not support. There are however a tiny handful of 4GB cards designed to use the old standard. These do seem to work with the Wii.

Have you seen Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles:The Young King and the Promised Land? Its graphics are on par with some gamecube games, I highly doubt that it could be done in the space of an N64 game.

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Hopefully. But I read in a recent Perrin Kaplan (sp?) interview, that they're treating Wii like a refridgerator. You take stuff out and put stuff in, like when you delete games to make room for new ones.

In my honest opinion, that's a stupid approach. Nowadays, games take up too much memory. They NEED to release a hard drive.

DSandWii

When I heard about that I thought, the Wii's memory is a mini-fridge, I want an upgrade! :P

lol sweet! Wii fit then refreshments for afterwards... ack stuff the wii fit

A hard drive is a need, cause you cant download much games onto 256 mb, or whatever the wiis capacity isKnuckleball93

512, but no still you can't get meny games on there and those that you can are never gonna be very large at all, unlike the looks of that final fantasy game

I would be happy if they just made it so you can save right to the sd and play off itJonDohJersey

*Sigh* When will people realize that games cannot be played off of SD card for concrete hardware reasons...

I think so...or they have come up with the most amazing compression technique known to mankind.forgot_it

LOL. Or unknown.

I think so...or they have come up with the most amazing compression technique known to mankind.forgot_it

lol, ya... FF: Crystal Bearers, compressed to 2 MB!

If they do release a hard drive I hope it's very reasonably priced. I don't want to be gouged.Number_1_Gamer

Knowing What Nintendo has been doing latly (free wii remote jackets) at the very least I think it's safe to say that either

A) It will have an extensive compatibility list with many USB hard drives

or

B) They will send Wii owners a free hard drive casing

if they even releeash it

if nintendo does do it, I bet that it will be in the form of a thumb drive 4-8Gb that will neatly plug into the back so you don't even know it is there unless you look at the back. Thats what I'm hopeing. No need for a bulky attachment.BunkaOne