Why the fuck couldn't they figure out a way to make this happen yet? Damn you nintendo, with your pseudo-inovative technology and your sleek marketing!.. Alright, it's a pretty good system, but the simple addition of a hard drive would make it even better... Especially when we can't play the fucking games from the SD card itself!! At this point it's not anti-piracy, it's sheer paranoia!! Oh well, let's hope all this sillyness ends soon.

i might be offended if i knew what an otaku was in this context...

Buy an SD card ? It is so cheap for a 2 Gig SD now you can just back up your Virtual Console games and WiiWare titles.

Sure, you can back them up, but the problem is you can't access those games directly from the SD card. You have to transfer them back to the system memory, which is quite a bit more of a hassle than it has to be. There are also restrictions on what kind of data you can transer to SD cards (doesn't seem to like me backing up save game, for instance) which makes buying one seem more pointless.

On the other hand, the 360 has much more storage space with a hard drive attached, and the games you have access to on Live is determined by your account information, not your game console itself. This is important, because if your Wii dies on you, then you'll probably have to send it to Nintendo and hope they can transfer your data to a new console, or you're screwed. On the 360, all you have to do is pop off the hard drive and pop it on the new one (admittedly, this is something I've done more than I would like). And even if your hard drive dies, you can still bring up your old account and re-download all your games.

It's unfortunate that, in comparison to the 360, Nintendo seems much more worried about preventing the consumer from having the freedom and ability to do what he wishes with his console. And yet, ironically, their system is easier to hack thanks to the inclusion of the same SD slot that the regular consumer can do virtually nothing with.

A better question would be:

"Is it too much to ask for Company heads in Europe to stop being dumbasses?"

Have so many of you forgotten the comments by Sony Europe's head that caused an uproar on this site as well?

Yayyy for Nitnendo's shitty PR!

I emailed Nintendo a few months back to tell them I wouldn't be buying Guitar Hero for the Wii since it didn't have downloadable content, which is directly related to them not having good a good storage solution.

This has been today's edition of "Idiotic PR Statements". Please tune in tomorrow for another installment.

I'm sure Nintendo will come out with a new storage format for the Wii.... but by the time they do it everyone who cared about playing all those games will have already played them or forgotten, so it won't sell well and they'll think they were right for not having one in the first place.

Man Sony are being assholes ag-

Nintendo?

oh wow this is funny actually.