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Forums - Nintendo - Nintendo: Wii Storage Limitations Becoming A ‘Mainstream Problem’

DMeisterJ on 23 July 2008
Viper1 said:
RolStoppable said:
Viper1 said:
DMeisterJ said:
Come on Nintendo. no more peripherals. A simple firmware update to boot from SD will help immensely.

My understanding is this is the direction they are working towards most.   A firmware update would not only open the channel directly but enable SDHC cards as well giving the Wii a theoretical limit of 2TB's of storage space.

TB = terabyte? For real?

Who would need all that space? Except for DMeisterJ of course, who downloads 20 VC games per week.

 

SDHC uses the FAT32 file system which has a capacity limit of 2 TB's.  While they are only retail at a current maximum of 32 GB's, that's a significant increase above what it curently supports.

Larger drives are on the way btu they'll cost a lot (as is always the case with new stuff).

I mean, no one needs 2TB, but 2 gigs should be sufficient.  Something more than 512.

 



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Viper1 on 23 July 2008

@DJM

True, we'll never need it but I posted that just to show that even if they use the SD card slot as their storage solution, we won't be running into another storage bottleneck anytime soon.



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Red4ADevil on 23 July 2008

At least were hearing it from the american side since they really dont treat us the way they treat Japan and Europe (They got club nintendo and other nice things) I only have bout 70 blocks left SSBB and the mario kart channel took HUGE pieces of blocks from my wii, im using these left over blocks for new games.



brute on 23 July 2008

i hope this comes soon



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kira hibiki on 23 July 2008

Maybe they just allow you to load stuff off ur SD like how memory cards PS2 uses. I don't want to buy a HD just to store save files and wiiware...



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breadie2 on 23 July 2008

Suddenly otaku becomes mainstream haha.



Smashchu2 on 23 July 2008
Zucas said:
Basically they don't mind solving it now because the mainstream will jump on and buy the peripheral haha . Classic.

No, he;s saying that with more people buying Wiiware and VC games, and of course more DLC and game channels, that more people are having the problem. So it is a much higher priority.