Of course, anyone who owns a Wii and likes to download games from the Wii Shop knows the pain of having to deal with storage -- the current arrangement is simply not that convenient. Nintendo is well aware of user complaints, and addressed the issue at today's keynote at GDC.
Iwata announced that the 4.0 update is available as of right now, so run to your Wii and get it -- so that's why the store was down a little while ago! This new update will feature twenty screens with twelve channels each,and also will support SDHC. Bring on your 32GB cards!
Wiishop channel can also now download directly onto an HD card if you choose, and you can launch the same content directly off the same card. Virtual Console will also offer some new ways to move content and messages, according to Iwata.
I would have preferred something slightly more groundbreaking, but since Nintendo has been pretty firm about it so far I wasn't expecting anything more than this. Is any of this going to help you manage your Wii content any better than you do now?
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11:55 AM on 03.25.2009
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Man, I almost feel like I have a current gen console... :D
However i'm so into homebrew right now that i will have to wait till this is completyl hacked to update.
But yeah! 32GB memory for my wii!
I may wait though until some things NOT installed on my Wii can work though.
Now if they'd only update the Web Browser to the latest version of flash...
Whatever you're thinking of, reports have surfaced that they do still work. Updating is another matter.
That's kinda out of Nintendo and Opera's hands. Adobe has to give out that stuff.
Downloading v4.0 now, and they're obviously getting crushed. The download is taking forever.
SDHC's transfer rates are significantly faster than SD. I hope this new firmware allows for the increased speed in SDHC cards as well.
Every game I try to launch from my SD card that isn't already on my Wii fails to launch.
gg Nintendo.
So wait, I have to have a copy of the game on my SD card and on my Wii?
is it the save files?
Oi...
As for my "this is shit it doesn't work at all" problems, it's looking more like my card.
just installed a 120Gb HD into my PS3, so with my 32 Gb SD card, the 360 has now dropped to last place in my collection when it comes to HD-capacity :p
Well, that'll solve my VC problems for the current decade...
Also, mistic, isn't that ironic? I was blown away when I realized Nintendo went from having the worst external storage solution to something better than the 360's first hard drive.
@Tubatic
I always knew the Wii was current gen, but I honestly got that SAME feeling from this update, and it blew me away. I feel like the Wii was "more" current-gen now than it was this morning.
I never moved my saved games to my SD card - only games - so this has worked like a dream. The only bad aspect is that I am not very tempted to fill the card with more games.
WiiWare and VC here I come!