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They should of had this option of expanded storage from day one, otherwise WTF was the SD slot for?]]>Oct 2nd 2008 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
And of course you can also backup your saves.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/

I think nintendo regrets this because they are jealous of the amount money Microsoft and Sony are making on DLC.




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Wii Ware and the VC would like to speak with you.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
Oh, and BTW, I only own 2 Wiimotes, 2 nunchuks, and a Wii wheel. I was just trying to make a point.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
Until that LifeDrive update came out, I thought there must be something hardware-specific about SD vs SDHC.

Anyone know for sure if SDHC support could be done with software on a Wii?
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Use of that description should be reserved for someone who needed the feature and realized it wasn't available?]]>Oct 2nd 2008 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
So what is that slot used for, then?

I've had my Wii for over a year, and I thought the slot's for storage...]]>Oct 2nd 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
Are you aware that a 2 GB SD card is 4x the amount of internal storage space in the Wii?]]>Oct 2nd 2008 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
So what other features were removed?]]>Oct 2nd 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
Which in fact brings up an interesting point: what is Nintendo going to do about the slow SD slot? Executing games off of it is going to be painful if not downright problematic if it stays this slow.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/It could preload the whole game.
I mean... most of these games are tiny. Doesn't seem like the Wii couldn't just put the whole thing in temporary memory.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/I'm not going to rule that out, but it seems unlikely. AFAIK WiiWare developers can access most of the 88MB of RAM on the Wii, which means that if games are preloaded, where would you preload that data to? Take space away from the internal flash memory to serve as swap space?]]>Oct 2nd 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
Assurance just happens to cost around $12 more.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
And its going to take them until spring to accomplish this? Thats kind of pathetic.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
"gah, why is this update taking so long?"

You mean 'til spring? Or 2+ years after release? If we've waited over 2 years up until now, I don't think a few more months is gonna kill anyone.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
I'm not too concerned because that's still four times the amount of internal memory; but if DLC starts to become available for the Wii like it is with 360 and PS3, 2 GB probably isn't going to hold a whole hell of a lot of content.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/
Thinking of the USB ports. They are defintely used for Wii little farts. :p ]]>Oct 2nd 2008 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/GBATemp;
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=99545
Link to the spreadsheet;
http://fathertom.net/wii/4gbsd.xls

]]>Oct 2nd 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/Oct 2nd 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/02/nintendo-announces-wii-storage-solution-sd-cards/I thought every comsumer hates it.]]>Oct 2nd 2008 11:45PM