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- terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61I can absolutely see this happening. I just hope that Nintendo has background downloading working before they start offering multi-gig downloads. Watching Mario hit blocks would get pretty boring after a few straight days.
- nukem996, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44The question I have is would any USB hard drive just work? I think it would be great if you could just hook up any USB hard drive/flash drive as long as it was formatted VFAT32. I really don't want to have to pay for an over priced nintendo hard drive.
- elipodio, on 10/12/2007, -18/+44I actually think that watching Mario hitting the blocks is one of the best features of the Wii. I find myself randomly buying games just because I get to watch him do his thing. God bless him.
- mclumber1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Yes, it's for USB micro fans and rocket launchers.
- cam2009, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21It most likely will happen sometime, probably when they announce the demo channel, but there's no reason they need to make their own. Let us use our own SD cards and hard drives. I've got SD cards and old mp3 players that will work perfectly, they don't need to require official ones. All it takes is a firmware upgrade. They need to let us run the games off of there, too. Right now, if you save a game to the SD card, you have to transfer it back to the Wii to play it. They're basically limiting the number of games you can buy from them.
- tabledesk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16They were thinking, "hey let's keep the cost down and consider opening up the USB ports to mass storage devices in the future. SD cards are also cheap and convenient for consumers."
- chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Roms already flood the internet so I don't think pirating of VC games through VC would do more damage then The masses of ROMs out there
IT would be superb if you could plug in any old USB HDD, it already takes SD Cards, which are pretty standard, not like Nintendo restricted the Wii to use a special Software modified SD Card - dualscreenman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Nope, just use encryption.
You can already back up VC games on SD cards, but you can't give the images to friends. - TheDiggMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13This would be great for a future 'Demo Channel'.
- Abatrour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@NiGHTSChao
A standard on all their Wii systems. Not like the 360 core and premium. 512MB is enough space for system updates and some games.
I don't understand why Microsoft didn't do the same thing with the 360. Having half a gig of built in storage would have been so cheap and allowed them to offer xbox 1 backwards compatibility by storing the updates in the flash without alienating the customers that don't have a harddrive.
.. wtf is up with digg today!? i reply to NiGHTSChao and it puts it here... - Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9While they are messing with memory storage, make it so we can save our GC games off the memory cards onto the SD or Wii... I'd love to share saved games from GC games :(
- coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7VFAT is the new and improved FAT32 with support for longer filenames.
- AgentMull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Don't click on it and feed the troll.
- shawnanigans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Abatrour's problem = Sort By Most Diggs
- JagoX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well Satoru Iwata hinted last year in an interview (before the Wii launched) that the USB ports could be used for USB external devices. So this isn't a total surprise...now let's just hope it ends up being true AND that they let you us use _ANY_ USB Thumb Drive and HDD.
- AllEvil669, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Stop it. Stop it. Stop it! It's no longer funny. Wait... It wasn't funny in the first place.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5once at most? would you prefer if they just guessed who your friends were and you didn't have to enter them at all?
- Redchannel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You know what would be really awesome ? If the external drive was built into a stand like the current one, it could be USB enabled. That way, the systm would still look great without a bunch a extra stuff coming out of it.
- gungaroo22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Just think of the Media Center capabilities that might be integrated into future channels. I am so into that prospect.
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6the wii should also make me eggs in the morning
- setrajonas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can always delete VC games off of the memory and re-download them later (for free) as necessary.
- Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4does it?
- freetyme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes, this should happen, what they need is external hard drive support, and a demo channel. Demo channel, and unified friends list so I only have to enter my friend's friend code once at most. Nintendo's in the position to take some major market share, but they have to WORK for it by offering these features and WORK for 3rd party support.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The controller has some memory on it, you can copy a Mii to it.
You could take a controller over to a friends house and a program could figure out that its been used on two systems and ask if the two systems should think of each other as friends or something similar. - thereisnospoon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I hope they just do a software update and make the VC Games playable off the SD Card.
- kauko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"A Nintendo hard-drive? Nintendo doesn't have the know-how, or the facilities required to make hard-drives. They would have to license the hard-drives from some other company, re-brand them as Nintendo drives, then sell them. "
Duh. I know very well that Nintendo doesn't manufacture hard drives and that it wouldn't make any sense for them to do so.
I was just trying to say that in all likelihood they'll sell the HD as a Nintendo branded accessory (and make a good profit in the process), add some proprietary ***** to the interface and lock you out from using generic USB drive. - AhrenBa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I have been thinking about this for quite some time now, and I think it could work brilliantly. If they do allow for an external hard drive, Nintendo better allow us to use any USB 2.0 drive out there. I just really do not want them to sell a proprietary drive that costs $70 more than the average drive. :)
This would be so great to download many VC games, and the rumored Indie, original, VC titles. Now all we need to make sure of, is that Nintendo doesn't mess it all up with a friend-code laden online system. :) - makenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rather than having to buy a special Nintendo storage device, I would rather them include the ability to use a UPnP storage device. It seems a bit silly that every appliance should have its own storage, when you could share one storage device between all of your appliances.
- djchronz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2man we should already be able to plug in any external hard drive and make it work
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bluetooth has less than 500KBytes per second throughput. You don't want to use it to store data.
- theGOG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and maybe a media channel, where you can play your movies, music, photos?
this also makes sense if you're going to have a hard drive. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This makes little sense. Just make it so you can save games and downloads to an SD card, like the PS3 can.
- Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2think they wanted to make a cheap console and allow for expansion(USB ports) later on down the road
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FAT32 has support for 512 Unicode character filenames already. It had it since day 1.
I think the problem here is you are a bunch of Linux weenies mistaking the name of your FAT32 driver for the name of a filesystem. - aptiva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now consider this happy, who'd want to plug a usb hdd in the front? :)
- AgentMull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3About damn time.
- dagamer34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@arbatour
Xbox games depend on the fact that they have a hard drive for caching. Write speed to flash isn't too good for emulation. - HAKdragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It could be difficult because the stand has exhaust ports so the system can vent. You wouldn't want those vents to be blocked.
- Metaridley, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5The Wii has USB ports for a reason...
- creep303, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well rumor or not, sounds like with all the VC crap going on, they'll need it.
- mclumber1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"It could be difficult because the stand has exhaust ports so the system can vent. You wouldn't want those vents to be blocked."
If you look at the inside of the stand, you will see the one exhaust port (it's actually the intake port) near the back of the stand. The front 2/3rds of the stand is just empty plastic - unused space. Nintendo (or a clever 3rd party) could create a HDD for the Wii that is incorporated into a stand. The stand that comes with the Wii is a little under 2.25 inches across. The hard drives used in iPods are 1.8 inches (closer to 2 inches when you factor in the drives case). The Wii stand is a perfect candidate for a hard drive, and you wouldn't have to worry about overheating. - N1XUK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think the USB port on the Wii will be very important in future months. So far we've got charging stations that run from the 5v port, a USB ethernet adapter etc. I just want now is a DS player for my Wii
- JagoX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ henrythehorse:
You are an idiot and a troll. - MaddieFitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We shall call it...Mini Wii!
- dsthunder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1***** that *****... unless it comes with the music channel and the dvd channel, oh and t3h demos channel...
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I hope it happens and I hope it's $100+
- zeebo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They'll probably release a firmware update that allows you to play games off of the SD cards and off of external storage hooked in via the usb port. Still I wouldn't be surprised to see a external hard drive that looks the same as the Wii.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Before the Wii launch, some Nintendo official hinted that this would be possible. I just think they had other priorities for the launch, and I'm pretty sure they'll do it eventually. The last thing Nintendo wants is that people stop buying VC games because they ran out of space on their memory card.
Also, I don't think Nintendo is afraid that this would open the gates to piracy. VC games can already be copied on a standard SD card that can be read by a computer. The games are well encrypted and can only play on the Wii it has been downloaded to. - daridave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think watching Mario hit blocks... ALREADY got boring.
Anyway, this would make sense, and I'm not nervous one bit about the style. I can picture a "mini" Wii-like box next to my Wii, the external drive. They'll probably have it hooked by USB, which would be nothing more than a 2.5" drive in some military-grade Nintendo protection (/sarcasm). duh. - mclumber1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"And who's going to do downloadable content for a undetermined percentage of ppl that buy Add-ons?"
Technically, the 360 hard drive is an add-on, since it isn't included in the base model Xbox 360. -
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