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Alright is it just me or is it pathetic that their is no hard drive or memory device other then SDCards and USB. Now Nintendo isn't the only company to blame here, what about all of the third party hardware manufacturer's? I mean their is massive demand especially with WiiWare launching next week for a hard drive or memory unit that can hold more then 2-Gig's and be used by the Wii like internal memory.

Madcatz, Intec and all the other 3rd party hardware manufacturers should be able to develope an external hardrive for the Wii. A USB based hard drive or an SD based one. I mean the console has been out like two years this year and their is no external hard drive.

I know I for one am down to 150-blocks on my internal memory. I don't like using SD cards and such to hold my games and don't want to delete the games for fear Nintendo in the future will close the service and the games will become impossible to regain.

So the question with overwhelming demand for a storage device why has nobody made one. Where is the third party hardware developers or even Nintendo's internal developers. I bet we see one revealed at this years E3! 

 



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They've been talking about making one.



It's because of people like me who still have 1100+ free memory blocks.



This has been adressed before. Also third party can not do it unless Nintendo makes a software update allowing it.



"Like you know"

rudyrsr8 is correct. Nintendo would sue a company if they touched the software on the Wii. Its ok to bring out a HD for it but the Wii won't recognize it without changing the Wii.



 


 

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I don't see a massive problem, I have a ton of Wii game saves, along with Virtual Console titles and the saves from that.
I also have every channel including the once free Internet Channel, I even still have the Metroid Prime Channel. And Mario Kart Wii channel.

And I have about 800 blocks left.

But, I don't think 3rd party could make one, if they did it'd have to go in the SD card slot and hold more then 20-30gbs just to please everyone.

And Nintendo's been talking about making one, just wait, they said maybe we'll see something at e3.



 

I own all of lastgen systems as of October 2008. (Finally got a Dreamcast)

I own every currentgen system except PS3.

Oh yeah I forgot to delete that Metroid Prime Channel. I just moved it to the last page after the game came out.



I have 1000 free blocks.

And to be honest I am perfectly happy to move my lesser played VC games (all but F-Zero X and Sonic) to an SD if I ran out of space.

I suspect with WiiWare I will eventually run out. (that and SSBB takes up 120 or something silly)



All my page are full...
I need a Hard drive NOW!!!!!



Wii ware-Fatal Frame 4-Street Fighter 4-Sonic Unleashed-guitare hero 3-Disaster-wii fit-mario kart-Sadness-Games who actually use Wii Board...i dont know but,...it seem big enough for me.By the way,im a proud owner of P.E.S 2008  Wii and it kill all the other soccer game.

My Wii code:3553-1619-3236-0339

my Brawl Code:0860-2912-9428

I still have >1000 blocks as well.