Yeah, they aren't going to make a hard drive for above reasons, they will definately go the SD route which is perfectly fine with me because I don't want to be stuck with a wii that doesn't have a hard drive when all the newer models do have one.
512 isn't terrible right now (unless you really really love your virtual console), but as soon as wiiware becomes available it's going to be tiny. I mean, just looking at Final Fantasy CC for wii you can tell that's not some 32 MB game, it's going to need a substantial amount of your 512MB. And with everybody else making cheap indie games for it, you'll go through 512 in no time. They desperately need to make a firmware update for SD support.
And I think they will, conveniently timed around when Wii ware launches, possibly with there own 1st part 8 gig SD cards.
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