N-Europe have received word from Nintendo that the SD storage solution for the Wii will be coming to Europe in addition to Japan and America.
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.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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Storage solution my ass...
Seriously, this is no solution its the same thing as downloading your deleted games from the internet channel.You still need to transfer your games from one place to another and thats nonsensical.
Its no solution its still the same problem.
Their Wii is already hijacked by modders and homebrewers.
If they are scared access will be a greater risk...there is no turning back its been cracked hacked an modded(without actually mod chips).
This is not a solution >_<...
Hey Sidar: "changed your tune from the previous post about storage solution...huh?"
Not just it not beign a true solution as you said, but also they're gonna take at least 6 months to release it....
I guess they can't figure out how the homebrew community did it....lol.
if you can play right off the sd card...then its a solution.
"Starting in Spring 2009, users will be able to download games directly on to an SD card and stream them from the card."
This is a solution to me. I have a few 4 gig cards and I'm glad they figured out away to get past that slow read or write time the SD had before. Streaming would fix that plus I'm sure they had to tweak the driver. I don't think homebrew has streaming in their driver and I've heard it was slow also. Hey but I don't have any home brew stuff.
What is funny is excite truck has been using MP3 directly from the SD card for a while now. Maybe that is using streaming also.
You have to blame the hold up on some R&D guy promising the world and ending up with the most common solution but I'm glad they tried at least.
I'll just have a few SD card ready to go. I'm curious as to how they are doing security though? Man I'm glad this thing will not need a hard drive though. I'm also wondering if they are or even can support the faster SD cards or even make a nintendo brand that is faster. I bet that's what they do.
LOL good drivers and security take a long time to make. When you look at other stuff I'm glad they are taking so long. 2009 is going to be a big year for the Wii and maybe even Wii ware also.
New story: Nintendo announces storage solution: SD Cards
I never said you said it was a solution, but you were agreeing with Nintedo.
"your quote"
Maybe they are waiting this long to enable it so that third party developers are aware of it and can use it for downloadable content...you will never know