Wii owners have been bitching and complaining over the past year on the issue of lack of memory storage for the console, which currently only offers a 512MB flash drive to store both your Virtual Console and WiiWare titles, as well as game saves.

A solution, of sorts, has been announced at Nintendo’s Fall Media Conference in Japan, which already announced the exciting news that a new DSi is on its way and that an all new Punch-Out!! game is coming to the Wii.

Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, revealed that in Spring 2009 Wii owners will be able to download games directly to an inserted SD memory card. That’s there solution? What, no external hard drive? Not a surprise coming from Nintendo.

Not a great solution by any means, especially when it doesn’t look like you’ll actually be able to play the games straight from an SD card.

This hasn’t been confirmed as of yet, but it would just be horrible if you had to download a new game to an SD card, then free space on your internal memory to transfer the game and then finally play. That’s just downright frustrating.

We’ll see how the Wii storage situation unravels when the new firmware update becomes available in Spring 2009.

Source: shacknews.com

Tags: hard_disk_drive, Japan, Nintendo's Fall Media Conference, nintendo-wii, Satoru Iwata, storage, Wii storage, WiiWare

• Nintendo to Fix Wii Storage Problems
• Wii Storage Solution May Be On The Way
• Grown Women Love Wiis
• Could the Wii’s Dirty Lens be a Filthy Lie?
• Laurent Fischer Apologizes to Geeks and Otaku
• Only “Geeks and Otaku” Want More Wii Storage
• Slackers Jerk Around Their Wiis: An Unethical Business Practice?
• Nintendo On Historic High

No Comments » No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.