Nintendo Wii HDD Not Ruled Out

Nintendo of America’s George Harrison stated that HDD and other ad-ons and upgrades for the Nintendo Wii are not out of the question. The following quote from him is a little open ended, but it at least lets us know that Nintendo is not closing the door to any options.

…it’s not out of the question on Wii, but we’re not even to our second holiday yet, so it’s kind of premature to talk about any revisions to the hardware itself.

With Sony and Microsoft having multi-tier marketing plans with varying consoles, I am sure that Nintendo will need to eventually have system options in place. When it comes to consumers, there are those that want to buy the bargain basement systems and those who want the elite systems. Microsoft’s success with their Xbox 360 Elite should be a tip off to other companies that price is not the only factor in making sales. Some hard core gamers will pay incredible amounts of money if the product is special.

The Wii is in desperate need of a memory upgrade and I think that will probably be the first thing we see headed our way in the future. 512MB almost sounds like we are talking about something from the 1990s. I am sure that Nintendo will do what they can to continually innovate the Wii. It’s hard to stay on top, and Nintendo definitely has some work ahead of them in the next 12 months.

Other people have talked about it and certainly memory management is something that consumers want to think about, whether it’s just Virtual Console games, so at this point we haven’t got anything we’re prepared to say about it.

Via: Kotaku