I agree having to use a memory card for GC saves is the thing that annoys me the most with my Wii. Apparently the reason is because every Wii contains pretty much an entire Gamecube inside, and the Gamecube parts are unable to communicate with the Wii parts (including the lovely 512mb) after they've been activated. If that's the price to pay for being the only system with 100% backwards compatibility then I'm ok with it, but it would be nice of Nintendo to include a 16mb card inside the console. It's not like they're not swimming in money at the moment.
Saying one "has to buy GC controllers, memory cards, and classic controllers" is a pretty ridiculous way of spinning the fact that the system suppports the previous gen of hardware into a bad thing. You have to spend quite a bit of money if you want access to every supported feature, but perhaps the same could be said of all.. things?







