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GranTurismo said:
Reading this thread all i thought of was the Sega genesis, and its Sega CD and the 32x add-ons :D

"What you see is what you get... which isn't bad at all... if you start questioning the Wii's abilities... drop in Prime 3 and start the drooling ;) "

The game looks better then what the gamecube had but it in no way shows off the power of the wii, atleast i would like to hope not. Just like GoW for the 360 or RFoM for the PS3 they are just the start of the systems.

The GC for the most part last gen was stuck at the same level of the PS2 while being better, like the PS2 to DC. The GC never had any support of third parties and was never forced to expand on the graphics, while games like GT4, GTA: SA, God of war3 and shadow of the colossus pulled every once of power from the PS2 and had games that were better then anything on the GC last gen except for RE4.

Can the wii expand on games like MP3, galaxy or brawl, or will the third parties and Nintendo do lazy jobs of trying to get the true power of the wii into its games.

My post is not a bash on the wii, i would expect more from the system over the years unlike the GC. The PS2 had games on it that should of not been possible, while i have never seen anything from any other system to this date to match the type of power that was drained from such a low power system.

 Well it depends on how well hardcore games sell on the Wii, but we haven't had that many polished, and original hardcore games on the Wii, so we have to wait to see how well those do. They sell enough, then third party developers will be encouraged to make good graphics for it.



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The graphics are fine the way they are. This is filed under the heading of evil rumor.



Could the peripheral be a mushroom that enhances Wii's graphic card's size power?

Or could it be something that makes the Wii grows yellow hair...



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The wii just needs some sort of an HD adapter and a hard drive..thats more than enough for me..and something tells me they r both on their way in one form or another..



Does the wii really need a HDD, they have 8gb SD sticks. I'm not sure how fast the read speeds or transfer data is on these so i'm not sure if they could fill the role of a HDD. But it could of been an idea of nintendo to never have a HDD and just have people buy SD cards.

Is there not spot to attach an external HDD by a USB port of something like that?



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GranTurismo said:
Does the wii really need a HDD, they have 8gb SD sticks. I'm not sure how fast the read speeds or transfer data is on these so i'm not sure if they could fill the role of a HDD. But it could of been an idea of nintendo to never have a HDD and just have people buy SD cards.

Is there not spot to attach an external HDD by a USB port of something like that?

Nintendo signed a deal back at the beginning of summer to handle it's storage driver. It's the same company they made a deal with shortly before the Wii's release that allows you to read and write to SD cards (in a very basic fashion). In the deal it says that they will provide a storage driver for the SD card slot to make it 2.0 (SDHC 1.1) and also cover USB flash and hard drive storage. So we know somethings coming, we just don't know when. I have a 4 gig stick sitting in my Wii right now that I can read from but not write to which sucks for the moment since my Wii is full of VC games. I'd love for them to turn the read write option for games on with SD cards and be able to launch them from the Wii Menu. Sadly, it's looking like a January update.

SD cards can read and write pretty fast and have instant search times. The SD card would be perfect for most people. A typical hard drive these days ranges in the 40-50MB range for reads, a fast SD card can read around 22+MB/s. The DVD drive in the Wii reads at around 9MB/s (off the middle ring of the disc) so an SD card is plenty fast for loading games. (Instant seeks help push it over the edge)

EDIT: Here is a link to the Engadgets poorly translated eSol press release.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/nintendo-to-enable-usb-mass-storage-devices-on-wii/

The PrFILE2 FAT file system is used on the high capacity SD cards, which he fails to mention in his article.



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