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Wii Storage Solution - Not as good as it sounds?

Posted by Anthony Dickens

Nintendo announce a "direction" of what they will do to fix the Wii's memory problem, but is it actually any good?


It's probably been hard for Nintendo to ignore the issue, the media and owners have been banging on about it for a long long time, finding it hard to understand why we can't just load directly from SD cards.

After last weeks announcement a huge amount of websites and blogs have reported this as the "solution" to the problem, we here at Nintendo Life beg to differ, if you look at what Nintendo actually said it's not that great.


Firstly, as it is going to be a software update it is horribly late, probably a good 18 months over due. Secondly if you look at what they say, you STILL won't be able to play directly from the SD card, you'll have the same limited memory for "channels", they're just saying it'll be "easier" (one click) to move something to the internal memory... basically speeding up the process, but not fixing it.

I guess if they really really don't want gamers to play directly from SD it should feature some form of memory overflow stacking, so that whenever you download something new it'll always save to the internal memory and then if required, move the least accessed (or games that haven't been accessed recently) onto the SD card, at least then you won't have to move stuff around unless you want to play something you've not touched in a long time.

Hmm, I don't think this will be the end of it.

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User Comments (5)



motang said:

Now that I took a deep breath and read what they really said, I understand it. Thanks Nintendo we really know how it works. Too bad it wasn't what I was thinking, where you can just download to the SD card and play off of that. Why not make it so we can save game data and load saved game data off the SD card. That should free some memory as well, right?



Zenman said:

um...that looks like it just covers wiiware and VC games,which can already be moved to an SD card. what i want to know is what about regular games like Okami and Wario Ware that take up similar space?



antdickens said:

Yeah, they didn't even mention how it will handle save game files... being able to load saves directly from SD would help, and it wouldn't break their "security".




SuperMarioX said:

It doesn't sound to bad... no it's terrible. Why didn't they come out with a Hard Drive or something like NORMAL developers? The X360 and PS3 have better ways of storage solutions. Nintendo your not in next-gen at all

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