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- mrgreen4242, on 04/24/2008, -4/+117I don't know what the fuss about a HDD for the Wii is... just enable the SD cards to be used for things the internal memory can be used for, or at least create an automatic swapping system so that the console will shuffle stuff to and from the card to internal memory transparently so it seems like you are running of the SD card.
SD cards are cheap, you can get 4 gigs for under $20 and you'd be free to choose your capacity based on price, but HDDs have a certain price floor. It'll be at least a $100 peripheral since we'd have to buy a HDD, enclosure, and powersupply. Why would anyone want that?
What Nintendo should do is release Wii Sports 2 (more sports, more in depth game play, more courses/fields/etc, online play, online leagues, etc etc) for $40 and include a "free" 4gb SD card, and release a system up that lets the card be used like it was internal memory. It would solve the problem, really, and in a cheap, attractive way for the consumer.
I'm just so confused about what people want to put on a Wii that would need a HDD of more than 4gb? The WiiWare titles are limited to like 40mb. VC games are less than that. There's no video content to download to the Wii (and if there was I suppose it would have to be SD, and so would be fairly small). I never used more than 12gb on my 360 HDD and I downloaded tons of demos and marketplace games... the only reason it ever got that high was I didn't delete stuff that I was completely done with anyways. - robomixx, on 04/24/2008, -18/+86Since when is having a feature that's 6+ years old revolutionary?
- ultralights, on 04/24/2008, -11/+65WTF is all this we can has *****? WTF has happened to the english language? sure, it might be funny, once, maybe twice with a funny picture...
- Stradenko, on 04/24/2008, -4/+35PC Gaming has *not* always had hard drives.
- JanYpe, on 04/24/2008, -2/+29Only if by "natural" you mean amazingly irritating.
- latova, on 04/24/2008, -15/+41It's much older than that I'm afraid. PC gaming has always had hard drives.
- o0joshua0o, on 04/24/2008, -1/+24All Nintendo has to do is release a system update that allows external USB hard drives to be used with the Wii. Problem solved.
- BigMan13, on 04/24/2008, -9/+30Buried for annoying LOLCats bad grammar.
- Kasot, on 04/24/2008, -13/+34Noticing how "can has" is starting to sound natural?
- krd1979, on 04/24/2008, -1/+20Tell that to my first computer, the Apple IIc... 5.25" floppy was it.
- gak001, on 04/24/2008, -3/+19God kills a kitten every time you can has.
- Hypersapien, on 04/24/2008, -2/+17Can we PLEASE knock off the god damn LOLspeak? It's fine on sites that are specifically dedicated to it, or someone is trying to be ironic or something, but it doesn't belong in a damn article headline.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -13/+27Why would Nintendo add a hard drive??? All they have to do is release another console that is marginally better than this one, then release Mario+1, Zelda+1, Sports+1, Play+1, etc etc etc. and you guys will all buy it again.
Why on earth would Nintendo mess with that equation? - estvir, on 04/24/2008, -7/+20But they're talking about consoles.
- Dgen_X, on 04/24/2008, -2/+15Rational thinking? You sir are a witch!
A 500GB hard drive would make my e-Wii so much bigger! - DDBdestroyer, on 04/24/2008, -5/+18i dont think nintendo really give a damn... they are IN PROFIT for every single wii console they sell - so they can just bring out the next small step and everyone will buy it AGAIN... the formula has worked countless times so why not again?
- rickwhois, on 04/24/2008, -3/+15cool
oohhh the "can has" jargon was so entertaining at one point. Though I don't see how this title is relevant to the hard drive.
Unless it was a L0LWii revoliution... Can we has cents able titles? - Dundasbro, on 04/24/2008, -3/+15You young people with your Xbox 360s and your compact disks and your pre-rendered graphics and your hard drives for pc gaming. Get off my lawn!
- Cyber_Akuma, on 04/24/2008, -0/+12"WTF has happened to the english language?"
The internet stole it's wallet, stole it's identity, slept with it's wife, killed it, raped it's corpse, then danced on it's grave.
And thanks to rule 34 theres probably a video of it somewhere on youtube. - Metylerka, on 04/24/2008, -2/+13Digg should has spell/grammar check?
- grapesofbaath, on 04/24/2008, -2/+13Buried for the stupid lolcat grammar and "EPIC FAIL" 4chan wannabe writing style. Learn2be funneh.
- ATLien74, on 04/24/2008, -0/+11I understand it's a meme, but that doesn't change the fact that it's incredibly stupid and annoying.
- Stradenko, on 04/24/2008, -1/+11http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_c ...
- mrgreen4242, on 04/24/2008, -2/+121) 4gb is hardly tiny.
2) 20mb for a song file is idiotic and they need to come up with a better way to store that data. At 4 minutes, even a 256kbps MP4 audio file is about 8mb, which means they need 12mb for what should be a 500kb text file describing the songs beats, etc.
3) SD isn't inherently slow, although it could be implemented poorly.
4) The 2gb limit COULD be lifted with software update, or maybe not.
5) I'm getting dugg up because what I am saying makes sense to a rational person. There's no need to add a $100 HDD (and that's pretty much the price floor for an external HDD) when a $20 card will achieve the same results.
6) The trouble doesn't seem to be storage not being offered - there is an SD card slot that will store at least 2gb if you want it to - it's access to that storage. It seems to be locked down for DRM type protection purposes. - paulofmandown, on 04/24/2008, -1/+11It's the name of a recurring feature article this guy writes for "nintendowiifanboy.com".
- nutmac, on 04/24/2008, -2/+11I thought the largest memory card Wii supports is 2 GB? It should be updated to support SDHC at least.
- deaftly, on 04/24/2008, -2/+11Why did Nintendo even give the wii an sd card slot if they weren't going to let you use it.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -4/+13It's too late for the Wii in my opinion... they totally missed the boat by not having a hard drive in time to allow for Smash Bros. to have downloadable content.
- yohnstoppable, on 04/24/2008, -0/+9I don't find it natural. In fact, I buried this story because of it.
- drlha, on 04/24/2008, -1/+9You're assuming that the Wii access speeds to SD cards is the same as the GC's access speeds to GC memory cards. That's a big assumption IMHO.
- KowGawd, on 04/24/2008, -3/+11Which console sold the most units this quarter?
do Wii know? I dunno, maybe Wii should look it up...
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/18/nintendo-take ... - Cyber_Akuma, on 04/24/2008, -0/+8Dosen't sound natural to me at all.
- mrgreen4242, on 04/24/2008, -4/+12Rather than debate you about which is better, blah blah blah, just look at the reviews for games on each system and look at the genre of all the games with a 8/10 or better... you'll see what's happening really fast. The 360 has a lot of good FPS, some RPGs, and a few shooter/adventure types that don't fit into the FPS category.
The Wii has a few genres of titles in that top tier group, but with only a couple exceptions they're all local multiplayer titles. The ones that aren't are all adventure/puzzler games to some degree or another.
So, if you want to blow some stuff up, or play a couple of big tradition style RPGs get a 360. If you want to play games with your family/friends, or solve puzzles get a Wii. Neither one is BETTER, per se, than the other, nor are it's games better as a whole, they're just aimed squarely at different types of gamers, which is fine. There's room for both in this market, I think.
BTW, saying you're getting old of the "Mario, Zelda, and Metroid formula" is a little one sided. I'm getting tired of the "Halo, Call of Duty formula". Also, I won't deny that the 360 has more "AAA" games available, but you have to consider that 1) it's been out a year longer. Comparing next years Wii AAA count to this years 360 is a little fairer, but I'll concede that doesn't help the gamer much.
And 2) MS came out of the last generation with a TON of momentum. They went from, literally, no one to #2 in a huge industry in a few short years. They were on a big upswing. Nintendo on the other hand, had spent the last TWO generations on a slow slide. The SNES was the most popular gaming system by leaps at the time, and they continued to decline in terms of market share and popularity from there all the way to the Gamecube. Developers, and more importantly, publishers weren't sure if the Wii was going to be successful at all - they had to reverse a decade long trend of selling less and less hardware. Investing millions into a game on the Wii early enough to have released a big name game by now would have been a pretty big risk.
Now that the Wii has shown itself to be successful, in terms of consoles sold, there's a lot less risk involved with a 3rd party dumping millions into the big titles. This will reflect in the AAA titles available for the system over the next couple years, I think. - Shuk, on 04/24/2008, -2/+10I think we are slowly coming to the sad truth that online capabilities will not improve that much in the Wii. Nintendo is simply too scared of kids and crazy parents that they've put up a massive shield. Since the Wii doesn't have a HDD built into it, developers won't work to build games around the harddrive (like online ones that require updates). Rock Band couldn't work with the Wii because of these flaws.
- hitman619, on 04/24/2008, -10/+17"Wii can HAS hard drive?" how about "Wii's can have a hard drive?"... I thought that's what those USB slots were for in the back of the unit - expansion baby!
- xenuxenuts, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7Let's leave the 12 year olds' memes to the 12 year olds though.
- jsully, on 04/24/2008, -2/+8What exactly are you doing with your Wii that a 4GB Micro SD card can't handle?
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+7Maybe you shouldn't have started your rant about abuse of the English language with "WTF". ***** idiot.
- Pippers, on 04/24/2008, -2/+8The Wii can only support 2GB cards, and the bandwidth is too slow. I'm not quite certain why you got dugg up, but it's not very informative. All you need to do is look around on any popular Wii message board and you will see endless amounts of complaints from people who have no room left. This is even before the announcement of the even larger Wiiware games that aren't even out yet.
Games like Rock Band want a device for people to download to because the content is actually rather large. A single song typically weighs in over 20megs last I looked, and that includes no graphics, just the music and datafiles for each device.
Until Nintendo can offer a hard drive, and not tiny, slow, memory cards, publishers will overlook the Wii when it comes to awesome extra content. - Spectre77, on 04/24/2008, -2/+8It's funny to see all the haters jumping onto the same bandwagons of inaccuracies and piss-poor logic over and over again:
Wii-Haters: "It's for kids lol". "They just keep releasing the same 3 games lol and you idiots keep buying them lol".
PS3-Haters: "Too bad they haven't released any games for it yet lol". "At least my controller rumbles lol".
360-Haters: "RROD lol". "You have to pay to play online? lol".
If you don't like a particular system for some hackneyed reason, don't read articles about them. Save yourself some time, nobody cares what you (or I) think. - deltaandroid, on 04/24/2008, -3/+8what good is downloadable content when the online is already botched completely? If not completely, then far inferior to other online services, everyone know im talking live here.
- apothekari, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5It has to...I have put 10 to 20 megabyte hires pix from my digital camera in the photo channel and it reads and manipulates them pretty much instantaneously.
- OrdinaryPanda, on 04/24/2008, -7/+12I have the Wii and Xbox360, and I'd have to say that in the way of "great" games (AAA) Xbox 360 stomps the Wii. I can count on one hand the great games for Wii, and so far they are all made by Nintendo, so here we are again for another round of "here's my Nintendo machine to play my Nintendo games" I enjoy Mario, Zelda, and Metroid, etc, but this formula is starting to get stale. They better have something new beyond trying to balance on a board for kicks.
- robmoff2, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5The title had bad grammar on purpose. Your comment , however, had bad grammar on accident. "Wii's" would be possessive, not plural. I think what you were getting at was: "Wiis can have a hard drive?"
- fohf, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4if only that were true...
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4Chill out.
- popnwave, on 04/24/2008, -1/+5You're thinking too rational! I agree though, I'd be happy with 4GB+ SDHC support, less clutter, no need for extra power cables, et al.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/24/2008, -1/+5Yeah and they also denied they were making a new DS just days before the DS Lite was announced.
- khyberkitsune, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4And you spend so much time on your XBOX360 that your grammatical and spelling skills have devolved.
- fudsak, on 04/24/2008, -1/+5Too bad Nintendo has said multiple times that they have no plans to release a hard drive or even support them.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/no-wii-hard- ...
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/27/wii-hard-drive-j ... -
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