i feel sorry for all the wii owners with there little 512 mb of memory =(

He posted this before he made this thread.  He's just trolling.

It was a transparent attempt, but it's worth responding to the thread in a positive way so that other people who read it will realize that 512MB is not any more a problem for the Wii than 120GB is a problem for the Xbox 360 elite. For ever rare Wii owner who has eclipsed the 512MB mark, there is probably an elite owner who hasn't yet gotten the RROD who has eclipsed the 120GB mark.

Space is not unlimited and has to be managed. Especially on consoles where companies will cut corners to save money in every way possible (look at the 360 premium or the PS3 40GB -- they both have absolutely tiny drives to store HD movies with.

With a 20GB drive, you'll literally get to watch one, then you'll have to delete it and redownload it later if you want to see it again. I'd consider my 360 to be far more space constrained than my Wii simply because the 360 tries to be a media center and fails miserably for lack of space.

Evanstar: if you want to buy a Wii, I'd recommend waiting at Best Buy on a Sunday. Get there two or three hours before the store opens, because the Wii is so insanely popular that it sells out all over America despite Nintendo shipping 4x as much as either HD console these last two months.

Lets see. I have 15 games + ~ 5-6 games I rented, including SSBB and Elebits which both take +100 blocks, 4 VC games, the Mario Kart, Internet, Everybody Votes, Nintendo and Metroid channels, and I still manage to have 400-500 blocks free.

Space is not an issue for the majority of Wii owners. If I wanted I could easily delete 300 blocks worth of information, and I would not care one bit, nor have to re-download any games.

It would be wonderful if nintendo allowed games to save directly to the SD card like in SSBB, but even SSBB still uses 128 blocks.

First of all...are you talking about full length movies?  In 720p they are about 3 gigs on xbox live so you could download 3 or 4 no problem.

Also, you can't "buy" them. All of them are 24 hour rentals...so they are gone in 24 hours anyway.

Otherwise, yeah, one needs to manage data on any system. That is however done much faster and more efficient on the 360 and ps3 and needs to be done much less often.

Sometimes I turn my wii on and I don't really know what I want to play...and I'm jsut surfing through Wii-channels. The games on the SD card don't show up so basically they are removed from my choices when I'm browsing my games. I forgot I had Splaterhouse and almost bought it again... 

If you want HD's your looking at the wrong console.

You are correct. Here it says "Downloadable" if you deleted it or move it to the SD card. You are correct also in correcting me in saying that I almost downloaded it again and not bought it again... Once you transfer it to the SD card...the Wii channel doesn't reckognize that you have it and offers you to download it again.

I think this will be more of a problem if you want to have a lot of Wii Ware games on your console at the same time. But you can always delete games and redownload for free. Or you can back up games on a SD card.

Though Nintendo said that they are currently looking into the space issue for more hardcore users.... Don't know what the solution will be yet. Hard Drive? Games able to play straight off the SD Card? Who knows.

nope, the memory of Wii is enough for quite a lot save files, images, messages and VC/WiiWare games!!

but if you want audio/video files you'll have to buy an sd card (2gb) which is ultra cheap on ebay, also Nintendo said that they are going to announce something new about Wii memory, not sure when....

you can also stream media from pc, there are some quite good softwares around on the internet.....