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Nintendo on Wii hard drive: 'pure rumor & speculation'



Posted Mar 19th 2007 7:58PM by James Ransom-Wiley
Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Peripherals
wii w/ hddNintendo has spooned out a helping of its classic canned response, dismissing rumor that an external hard drive for Wii is in the works. GameIndustry.biz was force-fed a mouthful of "pure rumour and speculation" when seeking clarification about the would-be peripheral.

Originating from Japanese mag Gamelabo, the rumor claimed to cite undisclosed sources within Nintendo who allegedly revealed that an external hard drive for Wii is being readied. Regardless of the validity of this particular rumor or its source, the Wii hard drive question seems to be more an issue of when than if. Back when we still called the thing a "Revolution," Iwata openly confirmed, "practically any storage method can be used [with the console]." External USB hard drives have to be included in that sentiment, no?

As Wii users begin to fill the 512 MB of internal flash memory -- just imagine the burden of Saturn games and downloadable demos -- everyone's got an eye toward memory expansion. A pile of SD cards is one option; a hard drive is a better one. Here's the dilemma: if Nintendo releases a first-party drive, say for $100, then there's a risk of Wii being perceived as a $350 console. Whether or not Nintendo opts for dual SKUs, retailers would certainly bundle the "base" console and an external Nintendo hard drive together; in effect, damaging Wii's price advantage. Nintendo is likely looking at a hard drive solution, but don't expect the company to give up its R&S response until it's clear that a proprietary drive would be profitable. Our guess: expect third-party offerings later this year.




任天堂官方消息指出Wii硬盘实属谣言，公司对此无计划。

业内人士评论：任天堂为了保持低价策略，弃用硬盘存储方式。如果追加大硬盘，wii的售价至少要贵$100美元，不利于市场销售，打击消费者热情。

但Wii确实有usb接口，可以适用外置硬盘，这给第三方公司提供商机，市场上250GB硬盘，售价为$100美元左右，如果任天堂效仿sony,微软，

附加官方制式硬盘，容量估计为20GB左右，价格昂贵为$100美元。 而且暂时Wii不需要大容量存储空间，普通2GBSD卡，市场售价为$39.99美元，

不失为明智选择

听上去好像蛮厚道的，实际上WII的价格本来就不厚道

有道理，大容量硬盘是不是会导致新的盗版形式？