well, since we talk about sales so much, let's get settled and descuss/predict how much this new sd card solution just released today will affect wiiware/virtual console sales. as we all know, there have been numerous people around the internets clamoring on how much the puny wii storage space was seriousely cutting into potential vc/ww sales. so...

will vc'ww sales suddenly spike with the influz of millions downloading games feverioushley due to no longer having to *clean out the fridge*?

will this affect some games differently than othersP will the sales for games with very large filesizes (i'm looking at you, world of goo) see their sales rise, while the tiny nes games remain relatively unaffected?

will it end up that this group is just a very vocal minority, and that they won't end up helping sales much?

there. i raised a few questions. now...

DISCUSS!

Probably no spike, the storage problem was always an overstated thing experienced mainly by a small but very vocal minority. Remember some 3/4 of Wii owners never even download anything at all.

If all the folks who vocally and repeatedly said that they would buy more VC/WW titles, if they ONLY had more space, would actually step up and follow through on their words, we'd see a spike of tens of thousands more in sales.

I expect there to be no change.

It won't, however it'll give developers one less thing to worry about regarding their potential audience (even if it has no real effect). It may be about winning over small developers, who are piling onto the iphone atm.

I have already purchased two Wii Points cards.... I'm gonna download a shitload of games.... ::slobber:: mmmmmmmm

Small increase. Might be hard to see in individual game sales but overall totals will increase just slightly.

it may indirectly affect it more with more "pay to play" titles announced and more additional DLC in Wii games.

We may even get a demo channel at some point and an increase in Wii Ware maximum file size somewhere down the line, a new wii bundle may even ship with a SD card included in order to get people downloading.

Who knows what this is a step towards but I reckon Nintendo have plans for it.

thats a good idea about an sd card. they could throw in some cheap 1gb-2gb card and have the console come with like 1000 wiipoints.

i know new consoles sold now come with another channel in the internal memory. this channel is a few minute long video about what the wii shop channel, virtual console, wiiware, ect is and some general instructions about how you can hook your wii up to the internet and how to go into the wii settings and set up a connection, ect. you can delete this channel when you don't want it anymore.

I bought some wii ware because of it. There will definitely be some sort of bump. The storage problem was always understated by Nintendo.

I can only speak for myself, of course, but the lack of storage was a serious problem. Now I can download more games so that is already a 0.0000001% spike.