Nintendo waves away hard drive rumors

by Alisha Karabinus { Jun 27th 2007 at 3:20PM }

After today's revelation of WiiWare, the new original content download service, the idea of an add-on hard drive for the console seemed much more likely. Until, that is, Nintendo UK unequivocally said, "no." Looks like it's time to start employing a wee army of SD cards, because with all the downloadable goodness, that 512 MBs of space is going pretty fast.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

vidGuy @ Jun 27th 2007 3:27PM

The question was posed in a way that asked if Nintendo had plans to release a PROPRIETARY harddrive... hopefully that doesn't eliminate the enabling of ANY USB HDD.

Tylor @ Jun 27th 2007 3:29PM

Im not gonna lie, nintendo is really droppin the ball on this one, unless they add a way to use SD cards without having to move stuff back and forth. I know that my wii is almost full, as I have 22 virtual console games! I wish they would suck it up and make something. or maybe a 3rd party would....

Alisha Karabinus @ Jun 27th 2007 3:47PM

I'm right there with you on the dream train, vidGuy. I do think they'll do it eventually.

Jonathan Tran @ Jun 27th 2007 3:47PM

I don't have an issue now but I hope this is added at some point.

Dragod @ Jun 27th 2007 3:48PM

I'm too cheap to buy an SD card =P

gigi @ Jun 27th 2007 3:51PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
...hmm...okay, let's see what happens E3

Mr Khan @ Jun 27th 2007 4:03PM

Please:

They've emphatically denied things that have turned out to be true in the past

DS Lite, anyone?

Mario @ Jun 27th 2007 4:04PM

Get a 2GB SD Card and you'll be doing ok. You can search the net for the right deal or check out Radio Shack. I grabbed a 1 GB card for $15 not too long ago. I believe the 2GB card was less than $35.

krd1979 @ Jun 27th 2007 4:25PM

Sure Nintendo UK said no... but remember when they said "No, there's not a redesigned DS coming out" then the DS Lite was announced like two weeks later... so I take their info with a grain of salt and we'll see what kind of announcements some out at E3.

Alisha Karabinus @ Jun 27th 2007 4:45PM

It's always good for hilarity when they say UH UH NO WAY and then renege like a week later. Gotta love Nintendo! :)

I smell tomorrow's conjecture countdown rumor....

kingalekz @ Jun 27th 2007 5:10PM

Does the Wii have any limit on SD Cards like only up to 4GB, or can I use 8GB ones too?

Mr Khan @ Jun 27th 2007 5:15PM

@ 11

From what i read in the Wii User manual, there is an upper cap for SD card size at 2 GB

Although this is the launch manual, mind, so that may have changed with the 5 or so firmware updates since then

Oh, and F-Zero X rocks, but must be controlled with a GC controller (Analogue stick on Classic Controller is teh suck)