Virtual Console Games Only for You
If you were hoping to download a bunch of Virtual Console games and then share them among your friends, you’re out of luck. To stop piracy, Nintendo says that Virtual Console games will only be playable on your own “account”. That seems to imply you’ll have some sort of gamertag like you do on Xbox Live. However, it is set up in such a way that if your system breaks and you need a new one, you’ll be able to transfer over all your games to your new Wii.
How about storage? Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs at Nintendo of America, says that they might make some kind of external hard drive in the future, but it doesn’t look like they have plans now. Storage will be limited to flash memory. I’m interpreting it as including SD memory cards (which use flash memory to store information) so that should be enough. 2GB SD cards are getting cheaper and cheaper. You likely have a few SD memory cards if you use digital cameras. The Wii comes with 512 MB of on-board flash memory.
Via IGN
If you were hoping to download a bunch of Virtual Console games and then share them among your friends, you’re out of luck. To stop piracy, Nintendo says that Virtual Console games will only be playable on your own “account”. That seems to imply you’ll have some sort of gamertag like you do on Xbox Live. However, it is set up in such a way that if your system breaks and you need a new one, you’ll be able to transfer over all your games to your new Wii.
How about storage? Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs at Nintendo of America, says that they might make some kind of external hard drive in the future, but it doesn’t look like they have plans now. Storage will be limited to flash memory. I’m interpreting it as including SD memory cards (which use flash memory to store information) so that should be enough. 2GB SD cards are getting cheaper and cheaper. You likely have a few SD memory cards if you use digital cameras. The Wii comes with 512 MB of on-board flash memory.
Via IGN
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