Wii getting external hard drive?
Rooting around jobs listings on the official Nintendo site isn’t something we’re prone to do. But eagle eyed bloggers have dug up plans by the Japanese gaming giant to hire a “Wii Software/Hardware developer who can develop “a plan for Wii’s USB devices.”
Hmmm, interesting. Nintendo has always said it wasn’t keen to stick a hard drive inside their machine, but have intimated that a USB version could be on the cards.
This now seems highly likely, in spite of comments last week suggesting players who downloaded stacks of content from WiiWare would just have to delete games from their paltry 512MB hard drive.
The Wii will be two years old this Christmas, so what’s the betting that a USB hub will give it a nice bump and keep it top of the charts for another year? Let us know what you think in the comments section.
Comments
tevil
3 years ago
I think this would be great!!!
if they went through with it.
I was extreamly dissapointed when i found out i couldnt fill up all the available channels with just basic virtual console games!!
And extraudinarily shal we say PEEVED when i found out that the internet channel takes up 254 blocks of memory!!
My wii looks very pathetic now cos i had to delete half my virtual console games to fit 1 wiiware game!!
And another thig to add to the list of annoyances is the fact that when something is saved to the sd card it is no longer readily available on the main screen, lets hope this is sopmething they will overcome with the hard drive!!
sorry about the length of the post!!
i only wish i could tell nintendo directly!! lol
Bearskopff
3 years ago
Funny. I could have sworn Ninty said HDDs were for geeks? Way to upset a good chunk of your customers. Back on topic, good. I've had my Wii for a month and have managed to run out of space already.