Solid State refers to any type of storage that requires no moving parts. Hard drives, optical drives, and disk drives, all require moving parts; thus, they are not solid state. Examples of solid state storage would be flash memory and ROM, which typically use much less power than hard drives. The N64 was the last console to use Solid State.
In the computer world, there is a term called "Moore's Law". It's not really a law at all but an observation made a few decades ago that the press blew out of proportion (as they do with everything). This observation said something along the lines of "every 18 months, density of computer components doubles". For the past 30 years, this has been roughly true with hard disks, RAM, processors, and most other components.
Yet, over the past decade, one component has been doubling in density about every four months! This technology is flash memory (in NAND or another flavor). A year ago, we bought a 1GB SD card on sale at radio shack for $85US. Now they are practically giving them away. In 2000 we bought an 8MB MemoryStick for about $50US. Two years later we got a 256MB one cheaper.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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thats one thing thats nex gen about the wii, and no the wii mote is not nex gen, the ps2 is more nex gen than the wii. (eye toy 2002) ; P
I know everyone on this site thinks Blu-ray is the future, but honestly being able to store 1,000+ title movie collection on postage stamp sized SD cards that would fit comfortably inside a shoebox with plenty of room to spare is a helluva lot more enticing to me.
What the hell!?
People rather have a hard drive then flash memory cards.
Nintendo doesn't even let you store your games on it.
The technology is next gen....maybe... And SSD drives may get cheaper and pass up HDD's later. EXCEPT Wii hard drives aren't removable in any form. So what does this prove? We got an up and coming technology that is currently inferior to current tech?
Moore's law isn't a law? This article fails in not even understanding the scientific meaning of "law"
EDIT: can anyone tell me where this chart comes from? If their price comparisons, then they just can't be right.