E3: Nintendo "Hoping People Can Manage" with SD Cards

Adamalicious - 537 days 20 hours ago

Dear Nintendo Lady,

That's super lame.

Thanks,
Adam

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SmokingMonkey - 537 days 20 hours ago

first they didn't want to do discs
now they don't want to do Hard Drives?

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Smacktard - 537 days 20 hours ago

Her statement (we're hoping people can just continue to manage right now using SD cards) sounds very promising. By the way she phrased it, it sounds like they really are trying to work on a solution. One that's really needed. However, it could just be her stupid way of not addressing a question well. Like other parts of that interview. She totally dodged the first-party DS game question. Also, Professor Layton was the first game she ever finished? Why the hell is she in charge of marketing? Don't you have to know your product if you're trying to sell it?

Also, the message directed to disappointed hardcore fans... sigh. They could've at LEAST mentioned a little bit about Pikmin 3, the new Mario and Zelda titles, the Conduit, Kid Icarus, Captain Rainbow... something. ANYTHING.

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BlackIceJoe - 537 days 20 hours ago

I am not sure if I am the only one but I really do not like Cammie Dunaway. Seeing how she acted in the press conference was funny and immature. Also Just because I can redownload the games again does not make it easy. I see a lot of VC and Wiiware games I would like to download. But I have not bought them because it is a pain to have to redownload them if I want to play them. Plus I already used up a lot of the internal Memory of the Wii. So it makes it even harder for me to go and download a game. It would be another story though if Nintendo would allow me to play games off of a SD memory card or the Wii could use a Hard Drive.

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Product - 537 days 20 hours ago

Hmmm "manage right now" sounds alittle like somehting is coming imo.Although it is nintendo so doubt it.

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tojfs7931 - 537 days 19 hours ago

Maybe adding a solid state type storage medium as that is where the industry is heading.

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AclayPS3 - 537 days 19 hours ago

Nintendo is probably scared to put a Hard drive in a Wii because if they did that, it would jack up the price of the Wii by $50-$75 bucks or even more and they don't want to loose momentuem in sales by having their console more expensive.

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vlazed - 537 days 19 hours ago

This is a major problem for me right now and I have stopped buying down loadable games for that reason. If I have to delete games just to play new ones it makes me feel like I don't actually own the games. I like the Wii, but I am disappointed in the direction Nintendo is taking it.

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Kwertie - 537 days 18 hours ago

Dear Nintendo
I am a huge user of Virtual Console, and I probably would be of WiiWare too, but I have run out of space. It takes up to 5 minutes to copy and/or delete an N64 game, which is significantly longer than it takes for me to dig out the actual N64 cart and pop it in my N64. Something is wrong. Nintendo, I want to give you money, but you are making it extremely difficult and time consuming for me to do so.

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Altered_Soul - 537 days 17 hours ago

I love my Nintendo Wii, mostly because I am a PC gamer so I can happily switch back and forth to enjoy the best of both worlds, but being not only a gamer, but also a diehard techie and an engineer, it truly puzzles me how Nintendo has missed so many great marketing and tech strategies that they could make work easily for those hardcore gamers and even some casual gamers.

This is one of those situations: storage. Should they have to reinvent the Wii with a harddrive or huge flash capacity? No way, that would be way to hard and way to negative on their sales as price would go up for something their casual market would barely touch. But the Wii is adaptable, it has various inputs, and at worst case, it has a wifi to connect. A proprietary solid state drive, which are low power devices, could quickly stack up the storage space and solve a lot of hardcore gamers problems. Hell, if on the USB, they could even jury rig a daisy chain to stack storage (at certain costs of course).

Again, this simple, if not 100% elegant, serves as a basis for what could be a workable and useful storage solution, without having to worry about recreating the Wii, and catering to the core gamers who need that storage space and even to some casual gamers who aren't as savvy at deleting various little WiiWare and VC games.

Now if only they would realize the social aspect of proper voice chat implementation, and updating games to counter certain simple criticisms, Nintendo would be rolling in appreciation. Imagine with the storage space improved, they could roll out certain content for games like, say, Mario Kart Wii, to add the ability to enable/disable certain items. That would please the hardcore for sure (damn blue shells). For casuals, who most certainly notice certain other niggling problems, it would help as well. Wii Fit is great, yes (I actually enjoy it for what it is), but who's brilliant idea was it to make a work-out and fitness game without the ability to create a savable workout schedule plan, or even to be able to queue up workouts so we don't have to let our heart rate drop to fiddle through menus? More storage space will allow desperately needed updates to fix small simple problems like this.

Alright, now hire me, clearly I am a genius who needed to spend part of his day offering solutions to problems. I must know everything, ever. Clearly.

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