Nintendo Will Provide More Space For Wii?
Motion-sensitive controllers are the main selling point for the Nintendo Wii, but when it comes to computer games, graphics are far from being impressive when compared to its competitors. Another important factor is the lack of a hard disk.
And since Nintendo provides gamers with WiiWare to allow them to download games then space for downloadable content becomes crucial. For now, there is only 512Mb available for saves and other stuff, but according to Nintendo Europe senior marketing director Laurent Fischer, new solutions to this problem are being investigated, as GamesIndustry.biz reports.
“We definitely detect that they [gamers] are serious and we know there is an issue in this, so it’s something that we’re working on,” but Fischer poured cold water on rumours - stemming from recent hints dropped by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata - that the company was planning an external solution.
It’s obvious that sooner or later Nintendo will have to come up with a solution, but if it’s not going to be a hardware solution such as external HDD, we’ll have to wait and see what other alternatives might emerge. Here’s what Joystic thinks about that.
Not being privvy to every last internal working of the Wii, we can only speculate that Nintendo is concocting a method – perhaps via a firmware update – for allowing downloaded games to be played directly from an SD card (much like we’d hoped for when the console first went on sale). There may be a chance this “solution” gets revealed at E3.
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