Nintendo Wii Hard Drive: More space for Virtual Console & WiiWare
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo Wii | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 28, 2008 | 11 Comments
The Nintendo Wii may not have the online features that the Sony PS3 and Xbox 360 had from the start but it does offer excellent interactivity that the other next-generation games systems do not.
The PS3 had a bigger hard drive than the Xbox 360 at launch, but the Nintendo Wii’s internal space and SD card options are laughable. Although to be fair, hard drive space was never a factor with the Wii.
Now days, Wii gaming is very different and a hard drive is needed. Wii Gamers need more space for Virtual Console and WiiWare. Nintendo know this and has said it’s “working to find a solution”.
Virtual Console has over 200 games in Europe and WiiWare games are getting larger. The 512MB of internal space and supported 2GB SD cards will not do.
There is a sense of urgency to solve the Nintendo Wii storage problem. Are you affected by a lack of hard drive space on the Nintendo Wii and what solution would you like to see?
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Why is it so hard to update the Wii software so we can add a standard USB hard drive? PS3 lets you use a standard SATA hard drive, so why can’t Nintendo do the same?
It would be better than those overpriced proprietary hard drives the Xbox 360 has… Ugh.
Great article. There’s no reason a company like Nintendo can’t compete with Playstation or XBox when it comes to hard drive space.
I had to delete a few games to make room for more. I think the most simple update would be the ability to use USB storage devices AND the ability to play games directly from the SD card.
Nintendo is concerned about the ease of piracy if games could be read directly from an SD card. I don’t think they’ll go that route, but as someone who has had to delete VC games for more blocks, I’m more than ready to see what Nintendo will do.
I don’t get it. Nintendo allows us to copy VC games, WiiWare, and Wii Channels to our SD cards. The software can only be used on the system that originally downloaded it. So then why doesn’t Nintendo let us use that same software directly off of our SD cards? I don’t see how this security would be weakened with this feature.
That good to hear from news. Why not put new technology bigger SD flash memory up to between 8 GB and 256 GB for your Nintendo Wii? More powerful than hard drive’s life cycle. Remember this Flash drive is the future for now. Don’t use hard drives anymore. Let going buy flash drive for Nintendo.
Don’t use Seagate!!! Western Digital, Hiachi, and other good product are best than Seagate. People will sue Seagate due lost files, failure, etc. Seagate have very short life cycle about 1 month to 2 years to be dead quickly. People will be warned! On google news said about 1,000 jobs was fired by Seagate company! So watch out!
yes nintendo need to find a way of increasing the HD space on the wii! i have bought guitar hero world tour which has come out with the abilty to download add-on content such as new songs which is something i have been waiting for nintendo to do with their games. but now i have to use the SD card and switch songs depending on the one i want to play which sucks.
and i cant keep all the channels on my wii either i have to move them to the sd card to make more room to download new ones its crap i just want to keep everything on the wii menu.
anyway please nintendo find a way. even if its just an update so that the wii can still run wii channels straight off the SD cards or something??
I don’t see why Nintendo is so resistant to adding an external USB hard drive to the Wii. Nowadays external hard drives are very affordable and easy to manage. We can easily update the Wii with a USB 320 GB hard drive for less than $100. We just need the firmware to support it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha all of you nitendo wii fans nitendo sucks i own all 3 wii, 360, and ps3 wii games suck really bad looks like child’s games and it really does need a 80 GB hard drive so you can download games for it. the only way they can fix it is to add a hard drive for it the only way and by the way a wii needs to in 1080 HD are at least 720 HD not 480 sucks with a big tv but the games sucks anyway and a ps3 is not wroth $400 it suck also the only thing I like about is free online that’s it. Needs better games. 360 I love it has a lots of fun games and so many people on line to (ps3 not many people online ) so go buy a 360 my 360 least one year before it died and yes it suck but i will be getting another one soon just like i said wii and ps3 sucks don’t even play them
Congratulations on passing kindergarten grammar class! I almost understood what you said, though it was rather painful attempting to read it.
wow…. we are all dumber for having read that. And people like you are the very reason they come up with this system… because too many people spend their lives on systems with no real life. Wii was TRYING to create a closer to real life experience, I commend them for that. This is a family system, but thank goodness society has people like you to sit around and play games all day…. Waste of life!