Wii General Discussion Thread

[Darth Alec]

Damn you and your game-renting abilities...

wow, business idea of the week.

[codenamelenny]

good news about no more heroes. The game is awesome, I'm playing it through for a second time.

[Aeron]

- 200K shipped to America (100k sell through)
- 40k shipped in Japan
- 160k shipped to Europe
- 400k shipped in total

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[Leonidas]

- 160k shipped to Europe

HOLY SHIT NMH IS OUT??

[valius]

Not yet. March 9th... that's 160k of pre-orders.

[Li Cha]

Wii usb port, well, what is its purpose? can flash cards/disks be plugged in it? what what what?

[valius]

Originally Posted by Li Cha

Wii usb port, well, what is its purpose? can flash cards/disks be plugged in it? what what what?

Keyboard, and that's all at the moment. Lack of support for external drives is a weak point for the Wii and it's small flash memory... and should be remedied ASAP. Hope Nintendo says something in GDC. We've only got 2GB SD cards in the meantime...

[webshark]

i really dont see ninty worrying too much about updated SKU's when they still cant stock their original one...

[Li Cha]

Originally Posted by valius

Keyboard, and that's all at the moment. Lack of support for external drivers is a weak point for the Wii and it's small flash memory... and should be remedied ASAP. Hope Nintendo says something in GDC. We've only got 2GB SD cards in the meantime...

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ok thanks.

[valius]

Originally Posted by webshark

i really dont see ninty worrying too much about updated SKU's when they still cant stock their original one...

It wouldn't be a SKU, but a firmware update. It would simply be having the OS kernel have the proper drivers/modules for USB mass storage drives. I mean, if a small open-source Linux kernel can do it, the Wii OS kernel should be able to. Nintendo would just need a bunch of systems programmers to write the driver code...

A Wii OS which could simply recognize and be able to store data on USB external drives, though the ultimate thing would be to be able to run VC/Wiiware things of external storage. We'll see what they'll do, considering that WiiWare is going to be talked about this week at GDC. It's given that they need at least the storage support for WiiWare to take up.



And yes, Wii system updates are free over the Internet, so an OS update would probably come via that.