Nintendo, lovers of innovation and customer appreciation (sinister smile), have come out and confirmed that the Wii will not have an external hard drive for those who wanted such a convenience. Check it out:
Nintendo has dismissed reports that it's going to release an external hard disk drive for the Wii so that people can transfer some of their stuff off the machine's internal flash drive, but it has confirmed that the DS is about to get a voice communication headset.
Japanese magazine Gamelabo claimed that Nintendo Japan executives had met recently to discuss the hard disk drive, but Nintendo UK told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that that's "pure rumour and speculation".
External storage is handy for Wii owners who like to buy games via Virtual Console, as the 512MB internal drive can quickly fill up. At the moment, users can invest in an SD flash-card to help store some of their software and save-game files away from the main system.
Is it really so hard to maybe put out a little something for your loyal customers? Seriously, what the hell? It's not like the company would sell it for free.
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10:33 AM on 03.19.2007
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Nintendo, I'm holding on by a thread... PLEASE do something to reassure my faith. ;_;
Plus if you're like me, you already backup your VC stuff to SD anyway. I've got 13 games on my Wii right now (and that's not counting inevitable future purchases of OoT or Starfox, either...) and I've got like 1200 blocks or more of free space left. I'm not worried about filling it up. Not when I can offload the games to my SD card which still has over 5000 blocks free.
Make the SD cards accessible and this becomes a moot issue. A 2-4 GB's worth of space would hold a MASSIVE game collection.
"There is no DS redesign coming."
**short time later**
Introducing the DS Lite!
Rather have a new Knights game then an external HDD ;¬)
Even though my VC games can just be redownloaded, I can't trust any game progress saves on it. Of course, the saves aren't much more than a kilobyte now, but when bigger content comes out with downloadable content, I'll have to redownload all the games.
Of course, I'm just thinking about the future, here.
The main thing I use my 1GB SD card is for mp3s for Excite Truck.
I hope they DON'T release an add-on harddrive. That would only increase the likelihood that the Wii will not support our own external USB hard drives. I would much rather have a simple firmware update to allow external hard drives than to have Nintendo pull a microsoft and bitchslap us with overpriced proprietary hard drives.
"...pull a Microsoft and bitchslap us with overpriced proprietary hard drives"
Exactly.
Exactly. SD cards are fine for NES, SNES, TG16, Gen and such, maybe even N64, but if we ever want Saturn games on the Virtual Console then we will need a hard drive.
There are many Saturn games that I want. Unlike NES, SNES, N64, TG16 and Genesis games, getting free emulated Saturn games is considerably more difficult. So I'd actually pony up cash for Saturn games, but I'd only be able to fit maybe one on my Wii if I'm lucky. Two or three on higher end SD cards. Not quite enough space if you ask me.
This is all moot though as Nintendo will not be offering Saturn games. If they were going to, they'd be offering a hard drive first. Guess I'll stick with emulation.
Maybe, just maybe, one day Nintendo will pull it's head out of it's ass with things like this. I can only hope that the day comes sooner rather than later...
And it was the same with the DS-Lite, they told something like "We have no plans of indtroducing a redesign next-week", wich was what people was speculating, and they introduced the DS-lite two weeks after that. Yup it kinda sucked for people waiting, it was pr crap, but they didn't "lie" or anything. Just like normally sony does. They don't actually lie, they just move over the tangent of things with ambiguous words.
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Saturn VC games seem like a pipe dream anyway. Besides the storage space it would take up, they would take forever to download. Sega would be better off releasing "Best of Saturn Collection" discs.
Can you honestly say that?
Sega 15 years ago was a powerhouse, that TECHNICALLY was doing better at certain points thing nintendo was. The only reason nintendo did better was becasue they had the money and the connections to push around, and make some A title games.
What is happening now?
Sony and Microsoft are big powerhouses, and Nintendo, as strong as they are, are still letting the the big names slip through because they wanna stick with their "kids are the world" BS
I think they forgot that the millions theyve made from people when they first started, that those people are in their 20's and 30's. Where are the adult games? Hell where are the GAMES.
Virtual Console and Sequels can only hold out so long
There is that Demo channel that was rumoured, and I hope they introduce HD support around the same time. If not, you can get a 2 gig SD card for $20 if you know how to shop right.
And VGfreak, Nintendo as a company is over 100 years old. Not just 20.
How many A titles did the gamecube have? 5? Or so, but nothing really else.
And yes they probably have made more money then microsoft and sony, but thats only because they spent about 10% of what they did. You have to remember if your selling a car for 20k that cost 3k to make, your going to have a bigger profit.
Nintendo has said they dont care about all the bells and wistles that sony and microsoft care about. And thats one big upset
They get good sales because of the DS, more then the gamecube ever did.
And because parents see the nintendo name, and they know their getting a kid friendly game, which they cant always do with the other two