I think that Nintendo will make a proprietary SD card or USB flash drive that will only work on the wii and the SD card/USB flash drive will lock it's self to the specific wii it's put into, making it useless for any other wii but at the same time they will allow games to run off the them.

This way they protect their content from being pirated, and at the same time expand the storage capacity which should resolve the issue of running out of space.

Sell it for: (my guess)
2 gig- $29
4 gig- $49
8 gig- $89

If they do a USB flash drive then the max will be 16 gig (2- 8 gig sticks)

Kwaad said: This is a very funny thread to me, as I rember when the Wii first released, everyone said how you would never need more space than what was on the Wii, and in the event you would, nintendo would solve the problem, before there was a problem... I think that's just funny.   In regards to a solution, I think they should allow for a 're-format' of a SD card, and then link the card directly only to the Wii, and then allow games to be played off those SD cards. (that are bricks in other Wii units)   The problem Nintendo will encounter from allowing HDD, is everyone's favorite, MOD CHIPS. As, if you allow HDD use, you can likely mod chip the console, to allow any HDD, and also, ontop of that, likely mod it to allow 'non-legit' games be played off it. So it's really a loose loose situation. Nintendo saving a buck early, costs us a buck later on.

Who, exactly, said this? Anyone that said/thought/believed a half a gig was sufficient space for the *life of the console* knowing just what they knew about the VC at the time should be slapped silly.

That said, there is one caveat: since you will never need the entire half-gig at any given time, you technically don't need any more space since you can off-load and/or re-DL any data that isn't being used. Everyone with any sense knows this is a crappy solution (the fact that it's far, far faster to re-DL anything than putting it on the SD shows you exactly where Nintendo's head was since the transfer rate and/or additional encryption overhead makes using that flash RAM an absolute chore) and Nintendo, at the very least, should have sprung for the full gig.

That said, I'd like to see where "everyone" (if we're talking about some random moron on a message board or ten thousand raving fanboys scattered across one hundred thousand fan sites) made a remark that foolish.