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dareware on 02 April 2008

On IGN Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast 3, it was said, that big N will free up the SD card and this will be announced at E3. Nintendo always takes baby steps !!!!

Take a listen:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/863/863499p1.html

If they do this, then we can run the VC and WiiWare games from the SD card.

Lets hope they support the new 16G and 32G SD cards, this will solve the storage problem.

Do you think they will also support HDD and flash drives ? 



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Coglestop on 02 April 2008

Assuming, of course, that the Wii's slot supports SDHC cards. Currently it only supports standard SD cards, which max out at 2 gigs. Hopefully it's a firmware limitation and not an actual hardware limitation, and thus can be patched away.



The Doc on 02 April 2008

Oh please let it be true. I could really use the space. Even a 2GB SD card is four times the size of the Wii's internal flash memory. I just hope it's not too slow.



famousringo on 02 April 2008

I think that was a prediction. A 'could' rather than a 'would.'

It obvious that Nintendo needs to do something about storage, but it's also obvious that they're in no rush to do so. I expected a storage solution to appear before or along with the WiiWare launch, but Japan has WiiWare and is still stuck with internal memory.

Perhaps the delay is so that Nintendo can fire up manufacturing for a reasonably priced USB hard drive. I've given up predicting what will happen with storage using reason, but I can keep dreaming, at least. :P



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BengaBenga on 02 April 2008

Would be great. 2GB would be enough for now and it won't take long before you can fit 100+ GB on a SD card.



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NintendoMan on 02 April 2008

It would be awesome. The internal memory is laughable.



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CDiablo on 02 April 2008

The window for piracy will be blown wide open with this move.



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dschumm on 02 April 2008
CDiablo said:
The window for piracy will be blown wide open with this move.

 I don't think piracy would be any worse as you already can put games on the SD card you just can't run them from there.

 I am pretty sure a firmware upgrade is all that is needed to take the SD to a SDHC slot. 

We won't  see 100 GB SD cards any time soon. The specs for SDHC only go up to 32GB. It's looking pretty silly now as we should have those out this year. I hope the next time they revise the spec they take it up to somethign rediculous like 32 TB or something.

 



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DKII on 02 April 2008

It was speculation.



BenKenobi88 on 02 April 2008

Huzzah for speculation!



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