| Cyrus said: Nevertheless, calling the eshop "a piece of crap" because they don't offer Wii games is strange, because why should a shop sell games that do not work on the system? Yes, Wii games do not work inside the WiiU OS. The backwards compatibility too Wii games is created by the possibilty to boot the WiiU with the Wii OS. Inside the Wii OS you can then use all the online functions of the Wii, like the Wii shop channel. But the Wii shop does not provide retail games. |
The Wii shop does not provide retail games yet because Nintendo set an arbitrary size limit of 40 MB for download titles.Microsoft had a similar arbitrary size limit for 360-downloads... 50 MB at first, then 150 MB, then 350 MB, then 2 GB, now without (known) limit.
Nintendo could also lift the size limit of the Wii shop and offer full Wii games in the Wii shop, not only WiiWare and VC. They already increasing the limit of Wii-compatible SD-cards from 2 GB to 32 GB... with a dirt cheap 32-GB-SD-card you would have enough space for several full Wii games. No changes would be necessary on the client side (Wii console or Wii U in Wii mode).
With a firmware update for Wii consoles and a firmware update for the Wii mode of a Wii U Nintendo could allow different locations for these big downloads: an inserted USB-stick, a connected external HDD or even a part of the internal Wii U flash memory. Software pirates are starting full Wii games from external HDDs or USB-Sticks for years... and the programmers of Nintendo (a multi-billion-dollar-company) aren't able to offer a similar download and storage solution for people who are willing to pay for their games? I can't believe that.
Another way could be offering full Wii games in the Wii U e-Shop instead of the Wii-shop. You download these games in Wii U mode, then switch to Wii-mode to play these games. Again, a firmware update could give the Wii-mode access to limited parts of the flash memory or to limited parts of a connected USB-stick or HDD.
The same goes for digital DS-games on a 3DS handheld... there HAS to be a way to offer these games in the 3DS eShop as download versions! Not everyone wants to carry a bag of DS games around, download versions on the memory-card of the 3DS would be so much more convenient. Make it happen, Nintendo!
