How are WiiWare games going to fit on my Wii?

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rasone77 said:
My guess is a hard drive add on in the future. If Nintendo doesn't make one a 3rd party will figure out a way. Bank on it

The hard drive itself makes no difference.

Its the ability of the games to run directly off the hard drive that matters. And if they can do that - they can run them off a SD card (which is effectively a hard disk, with lower latency, better read rates and lower overall storage).

The only real issue is piracy.

If they aren't careful, it could become trivial to upload a WiiWare/VC game to the SD card from the web - then play it on the Wii. It would be the worst possible outcome for Ninty.

I have downloaded a HEAP of stuff, and still have about 1/3rd my total memory free. I will run out of space at some point, but it might be a trivial thing to clear things for extra space (and dl them later if needed).

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This is also an issue that should affect only 1% (if that) of overall Wii users - so they aren't too fussed about it now. It also has no impact on immediate sales.

It would be a nice bombshell to drop before Xmas next year - "Wii hard disk announced". Open the way for large media transfers (music purchasing, etc..).

I'm more worried about not having space to download music files for games such as RockBand & GHIII.