Rumor: Hard Drive Wii?

Has this been posted yet? It seems that the guys at CVG heard through the grapevine that Nintendo plans to unveil new hardware at this year E3, new hardware that would include a hard drive for the Wii.

Unfortunately, the site doesn't provide any link for the rumors, but it mentions the fact that NeoGeo titles are scheduled for release in the future, and given the size of some of those titles, the built-in 512 MB flash memory might become insufficient by the time those games hit the (virtual) street.

What do you guys think? Is this feasible? Would a HD adversely affect Nintendo's mass market pricing approach? Would this lead to the big N also offering two SKUs?

Has this been posted yet? It seems that the guys at CVG heard through the grapevine that Nintendo plans to unveil new hardware at this year E3, new hardware that would include a hard drive for the Wii.

Unfortunately, the site doesn't provide any link for the rumors, but it mentions the fact that NeoGeo titles are scheduled for release in the future, and given the size of some of those titles, the built-in 512 MB flash memory might become insufficient by the time those games hit the (virtual) street.

What do you guys think? Is this feasible? Would a HD adversely affect Nintendo's mass market pricing approach? Would this lead to the big N also offering two SKUs?

SteelAttack

What's the point, when you can just use an SD card?

I still have a ton of room on the Wii's memory, I haven't even needed an SD card yet.

I can see them upping the internal memory, but I doubt they'd introduce a hard drive. You can buy 1GB SD cards for ten bucks now, and 512MB is pretty slim if you download a lot of titles. Of course, given how well the Wii is selling anyway they might as well just pass the cost of additional memory on to the consumer.

SNES games peak at 4MB, N64 at 32MB, and Neo-Geo are generally around 50 or 60MB, aren't they? You'd definitely fill up the built in memory fast.

CVG heard through the grapevine. LOL those guys just steal from everyone else. Basically it was mentioned on the IGN wiikly podcast on saturday that Nintendo had inked a deal with a memory manurfacturer (which we've known for months) then jeux france beforehand said that big hardware news was rumoured for Nintendo's E3, along with mario kart.

And Gamelabo a japanese mag said way back when that an internal nintendo meeting had approved a hard drive. Nintendo put out the whole 'just' speculation ruse as usual. Pair that together with neo geo games making thier way to wii this summer and it's everybody else saying it and CVG claiming it as some sort of insider info.

This would be a greater betrayel than the 360 elite.

Ah well.

This would be a greater betrayel than the 360 elite.

Ah well.

Foolz3h

i remeber feeling pretty pissed with nintendo when they released the DS lite.... 

i remeber feeling pretty pissed with nintendo when they released the DS lite.... 

muppet1010

Just the opposite here.  The GBA-SP and DS Lite were such improvements on the original hardware, that I couldn't help but welcome the change.