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2:50 PM on 10.04.2008
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Fucking brilliant!
Bravo
*clap.gif goes here*
>_>
Honestly, downloadable content for the Wii, games included, has small file sizes. SD cards are also dirt cheap, so they'll do the job very well, in my opinion. Yes, I agree that the USB ports are sitting there pointlessly right now, but SD cards will be a fine solution.
The problem here is that we can't play stuff directly off of those SD cards, as Xelotath pointed out. If they fix that, then everything will be fine.
The problem is not so much the SD cards as the fact that this minor change to the way the Wii Shop Channel works is hardly a solution. It deletes at most one extra step in a multistep process of juggling files around. As for VC games being small, well, yeah, if you're not downloading N64 or TurboCD games, they are pretty small. But then there are files for game saves, like the uncopyable save file for Brawl which clocks in at over 100 blocks. Oh, and WiiWare games are on average quite a bit bigger than VC games.
we'd call them "resistant drives".
Thank you my good sir! (or madam...)
If you don't, then WTF are you doing bothering to tell us? Oh, that's right. You're trolling. My bad.
Anyway, has Nintendo said specifically that content cannot be played directly from the SD card? I hear a lot of conjecture about it, but I haven't seen anything specifically from Nintendo saying that data would have to be transferred back and forth. Can anyone provide a link from Nintendo saying this?
To force the user to go back and forth is stupid and unnecessary, especially when there is already DRM on the games to prevent you from moving them from one console to another. Will it be slower than reading from RAM? Yes, of course, but unless you're talking about a sh*tload of data, I don't see it being the problem that a lot of people are making it out to be.
Too bad we can't just add something like laptop RAM to the console itself. Oh, well. This is still more than adequate, considering the alternative is no extra RAM at all!
Yeah, forget that many of us have a Wii in addition to our PS3, XB360, and/or PC.
F*cking fanboys.
Sir will do just fine.
i already have two Semi-official Sandisk labeled wii SD cards (one in the console, one empty on the side)
Seriously, the wii uses SD cards anyway, how does this make any difference at all.
Just give us a damm hard drive, 80GB will more than do and its not like one will be overly expensive in today's world and give us an online service comparable to Xbox Live (with Dowloadable Content, Friends lists that don't require us to enter a 24 digit code)
now to wally world for more SD cards
What have Wii been missing?
I know.. I'm soo bad.
but I haven't bought one single VC game.
By all means the Wii should've been a failure from launch. And yet here we are.
Jesus Christ Nintendo. Just....seriously.
/facepalm.jpg
You're telling me that you can't even PLAY stuff from the SD cards (even though those hackers on the homebrew scene let you do that with noooo problems).
We can DOWNLOAD stuff to them which isn't all that different from downloading them on the Wii and moving them to SD cards... so, their solution is to take out a step that is meaningless?
FUCK YOU NINTENDO. JUST... FUCK YOU.
Oh man I love Nintendo, just when I think they can't do anything stupider, they blow me away.