If someone steals your PS3 they could access your credit card number, copy the card and spend a lot more than $500.

Yes it is unlikely, but possible.

@bdbdbd, I don't think that is true, a number of times I have counted the coins between mario hitting the blocks, never all at once but I am pretty sure it is 13 between each block hit whatever size the game is.

It only shows you the last 4 digits of the credit card. Thankfully, not everyone thinks like Nintendo does. Most online websites save your credit card number, too. What you're saying is that if someone steals my PC they can get my credit card because I bought a book from amazon.com.

The whole "not storing" thing is more of a convenience than anything... I don't know my CC number, expiration date, CCV and all of that good stuff by heart. So I can see where he may have a problem with that.

Also, I don't know what kind of internet everyone else has, but I have DSL, so when I download stuff, even if it's like 40-50 megabytes, it takes me a good five or six minutes, longer if it's my laptop (wireless). So I can kinda see where not having background downloading might be somewhat of an annoyance.

I don't think that it'd be such a problem to store the data onto your individual Wii Console... The original XBOX did it, as does the XBOX 360 and PS3. They haven't faced "a thousand parents who weren't aware their credit card was stored..". At least not to my knowledge.

indeed, DMeisterJ

other than storage, his arguments are "hella" weak.

Now that I have a fiber optics internet connexion, my complain is not seeing the Mario/Luigi progress bar long enough.

What a disappointement it is to get Fire Mario and be able to throw fire balls for only 10 seconds .

The bigger size of WiiWare title helps a little though. I still haven't had swimming Mario (if he really exists), that would suck if I finally got it with a NES game.

I have 38 games for my Wii, I play about 5 of them actively, the time it takes me to put in th CD, and start the game to actually playing took more time than downloading FFCC:MLAAK.

It's not like the Assassin Creed install to which I had to go outside and watch my g/f watch Opera then come back, leave and go eat a bowl of cherios then come back with a half empty bow for it to be 90% done.

It seems like the biggest issue here is storage space, not the actual service itself. That's certainly the thing he harps on the most. In fact, he points out rather emphatically that there are already several good games on the service.

I think the storage space issue has been apparent to the enthusiast crowd for some time. I agree, it's annoying.