Nintendo has the answer to their little internal storage issue … use SD cards! When the system first launched, most people would have looked at this and felt it was short sided, ridiculous, or somehow too pricey to do. Leave it to time to take care of all of those things!

SD cards have become a dime a dozen, and they’re more than small enough that an end user would not mind stashing a couple in a case for their WiiWare or Virtual Console games. A check of my local Micro Center reveals a 1GB card at $6, and a 2GB card at $8, and they’re more than capable enough for the needs of the games Nintendo wants to put out there right now. Heck, the 2GB one might be too capable, just ask the people hacking the system to run backups.

The only thing that Nintendo could do to enhance it would be to update their firmware to have this support SDHC cards as well, something that will make the storage capability of the Wii limitless (and even could open up other publishing platforms). Deft programmers have created SDHC access for other devices, so I have to think the Wii firmware could add support for these. The cost point is even better too; that Micro Center has 8GB SDHC cards for $22.