You could transfer to SD cards before this announcement. The thing that everybody wanted was to be able to boot up games directly from the SD card without having to do a bunch of transferring beforehand...

Well.  Yeah, it's a solution.

I should restate:

It's not the solution that people wanted ^_^

I will sell my Wii if this turns out to be the case. The same reason why MS will not launch a download only game distribution service for at least the next 5-10 years is the same reason why Nintendo better not do what you've suggested.

Internet in alot of countries isn't fast enough to accomodate for constantly re-downloading games in order to play them AND most people don't have excessive amounts of download space allocated to them each month to make it practical (mine is 25gb per month and that's considered very high for households here).

@Galaki and the SD card's sizes post:

A 500gb HDD cost me $100AUD last week, how much will a 32gb SD card cost me now? according to the sandisk website a 32gb SD card will cost $179.99USD.

Personally, I'm not paying $180USD (which would probably cost over $200 for the equivalent in AUD) for a 32gb SD card when Nintendo could have easily just allowed HDD to be used. Sure if the Wii were a portable camera and an SD card was practical because of size then I wouldn't mind paying the amount, but the Wii sits on the stand I have my tv on and there is space next to it to fit a HDD.

Games suck if they are old? Get out, noob.

As for the SD card annoucement, it doesn't say you can't do that either, so the OP is jumping to conclusions, without waiting for any confirmation.

Here you go. Here is confirmation that you can play off of the SD card directly...


[9:23] "Iwata is addressing the problem of Wii storage," he says. "Soon you will be able to download and store virtual console and WiiWare titles directly your SD card, and play them off your SD card. This will make the Wii download experience much easier."

Source

Arkk wins the thread.

I wonder if people will stop whining now.

One big cookie for you :)

@ Words of Wisdom

Well, I wonder why you're still in this thread.

Judging from your post

"Problem: My Wii's memory is full, I can't download anything new.

Solution: Download to your SD card instead of your Wii."

It seems like you knew nothing of this problem to begin with.

@LordTheNightKnight

You didn't read the whole thread did you? if you did you would realize that most sources say nothing about playing from the card, only a few do, which means we don't know which sites got lost in translation and which didn't. Also, at the US conference, Reggie did not explicitly say "You could play the games from the SD card" either. Why would they leave out such an important fact?

Oh, I don't know, maybe because that's a given? Otherwise they wouldn't bother announcing anything? Because there would be nothing to announce?