Rumor: External Wii Harddrive?
A Japanese magazine called GameLabo is reporting that an external Wii hard disk drive is in the works. Many online outlets have been speculating that a meeting held by Nintendo executives was held to discuss the possibility of the hardware.
Before the Wii had launched, many consumers thought that the 512MB flash memory would be quite enough, but some users are already finding that the capacity has already been reached, and players have had to resort to SD memory cards. Maybe there should only be a firmware upgrade so that external USB hard drives are connectable; having to buy a seperate utility just for extra virtual console games seems a bit too much.
Read (CVG)
March 18th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Even with Virtual Console, a 2 Gig SD card should be plenty.
March 18th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Yeah agreed.
But adding a HDD means there’s other possibilities.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
demo channel anyone?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
That’d be kool.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Well I keep hearing that More and more games are being added to the Virtual Console. Even Sega Saturn Games are rumored to be added. With a download here and a download there, that starts to add up. My Xbox 360 HDD is nearly full. I’m really starting to get worried. I stopped downloading from XBL/XBLA because of my dwindling space. Nintendo should of thought of this from the start. If anyone is going to offer a download type service then a 60+gig should be the minimum. Look at itunes Ive seen people buy 500+gigs because their original HDD got full. Just my thoughts.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I guess Nintendo didn’t know how popular the VC service would be. I think they intended it for mostly old school games, which are TINY and don’t really take up much space at all. N64 games were even small, with the biggest games being I think 36mb, most were much smaller – Mario 64 was only 8mb. As it is there’s probably room to fit every single VC game on the flash drive twice. But I agree, it is not future proof.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
[...] and a harddrive. It also needs some software, and a TV guide system. I have a little good news, rumors are that Nintendo is making a usb harddrive for the Wii. If this is true, then hardware wise we are [...]