A History of Wii Peripherals

September 9, 2008 · Filed Under General · Comment 

After Reggie Fils-Aime reported no new Wii add-ons would come about, we here at TechViva think its a good time to look back on the history of Wii peripherals you may or may not have bought into. Back then, and even now, we all wanted our Wii remotes to emulate something close to a lightsaber, or a glock or a baseball bat. Who knew that over priced plastic casing would invade the market so fast and in such great numbers to extend the life of games such as Wii Sports, Ghost Squad, Mario Kart and any other games that actually played well with the plastic, and heartless, shells.

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Nintendo working on storage issue, won’t release a hard-drive

September 8, 2008 · Filed Under Gaming News · Comment 

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Nintendo’s not going to develop a hard-drive; Reggie says Nintendo’s got something much better in store.

Since the dawn of time the Nintendo Wii’s have never really needed any more storage than the 512mb it has internally. I mean, seriously, how big is a game save? Then Virtual Console appeared, then WiiWare hit, then downloadable content because an issue and now Wii owners are crying wolf for something they never thought they’d need - space.

Fast forward almost two years into the Wii’s lifecycle and owners still don’t have an answer to the impending problem. The two biggest fake band games of the year - Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour are going to sport downloadable content and will need considerable space on all consoles to house it.

The real question is: Will the Wii have the means to support downloadable content?

According to 1UP.com - with files taken from Club Nintendo, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime assures Nintendo is working on a “better solution” when asked about a hard-drive add-on. But what could really be better than a hard-drive?

Maybe Nintendo’s working on a Wii update that’ll allow users to use any SD or external hard-drive they already own. Wait, that won’t work because then the issue of piracy becomes a problem. Hey, I got it! Maybe Nintendo’s going to ask for a recall on all Wii’s to get upgraded with 1gb of internal storage! Ok, so that’s not practical and pretty stupid as well.

Lost in the interview is Reggie’s mention of Nintendo not developing any more peripherals for the system. This is going to be an interesting task for Nintendo - giving the users considerable more space for downloadable content while not having them buy any new external add-ons.

Maybe something web-based ala GMail? That’s my only guess.

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