After more than a year of complaining and Nintendo repeatedly saying it was only a problem for the hardcore and geeks, it has finally been announced that you will be able to play your VC games from SD cards.
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Finally. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has just announced that, beginning in Spring 2009 (at least for Japan), Nintendo Wii owners will be able to download software directly to an SD card. "We have to address the console's insufficient memory storage," said Iwata, speaking at today's Nintendo Fall Press Conference. This obviously applies only to WiiWare and Virtual Console games, but hey, since they were the things clogging up your memory in the first place, it's hard to see this as anything other than good news. Not perfect news, but still, better than silence.
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http://kotaku.com/5057877/save-wii-g...ng-spring-2009
Personally, this is quite disappointing to me. I am glad they've acknowledged the problem and provided a solution. But of all of the possible ways they could have provided more storage, they chose the most expensive and least convenient. The biggest inconvenience of which is that the Wii doesn't support SD cards larger than 2GB. USB mass storage is already unlocked through homebrew (albeit only at USB 1.1, since that's the type of controller Nintendo provided), and there's really no excuse for not providing it standard.
Regardless, it looks like compulsive VC game buyers will have a slightly better selection of Wii games at any one time.
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