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thetonestarr on 06 July 2007

Nintendo won't be announcing any Wii-branded harddrives.

Rather, they'll be announcing better expanded storage support.

Meaning: better SD card support, new options for USB flash-drive support, new options for attaching your OWN external harddrives (just not Wii-branded).



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Daileon on 06 July 2007
RolStoppable said:
z64dan said:
Not gonna happen. And once you chill out, you realize OH MY GOD RE-DOWNLOADING GAMES ISNT THAT HARD!

Hey, NES games take close to 10 seconds to download!


5 minutes here. Almost 1 hour for an N64 game.

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naznatips on 06 July 2007

I agree with the majority, it's doubtful.



bulletstopper on 07 July 2007

I have heard that the Wii could play DVDs but didn't want to pay the liscensing fees. Does that make sense? Anyway, I have heard there is a chip you can get that will allow the playing of DVDs. Alot of trouble for something that should have come standard.



dododo on 07 July 2007

Right, they would have to license the use of the DVD format. And since DVD has like 99% penetration already who needs another one.



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naznatips on 07 July 2007

Yeah there is no reason for them to pay for DVD licensing. It will just cut profits. No one is gonna buy a Wii as a DVD player when you can get one for 20 bucks at walmart.



Daileon on 07 July 2007

It would be nice to have a "DVD Channel" for about 5 dollars. I think I would buy it just to eliminate an electronic gadget from my room and free an input of my TV.



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ChichiriMuyo on 07 July 2007
RolStoppable said:

No hard drive.

Neo Geo games aren't that big either, some N64 games have similar capacity, so that point is moot. Nintendo will probably try to get better compression rates for these games and WiiWare titles instead of announcing and offering a hard drive. 


Yes and no... the biggest Neo Geo games are still two times the size of the biggest N64 games.  My assumptioni s that they will make it so you can play games off of SD cards and be done with it.  They don't want to make a HDD, and they probably don't think that gamers even want one much like they though gamers didn't want online last generation.



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fazz on 07 July 2007

I say no hard-drive.

I go more for a system updat (BIOS? :P) that allows better usage of the existing stuff (cards and USB ports... the only thing I can do with USB is to charge my mp3 :| )

EDIT: Also, NeoGeo games were around 90 MB max... average is around 40 MB 



naznatips on 07 July 2007

Well said Roll.