Wii Storage, VC Upgrade, Zelda Sequel Announced at GDC
Nintendo held their keynote address this morning at the Game Developers Conference, and CEO Satoru Iwata spilled beans all over the place. The biggest of those beans? Storage-starved Wii owners now have a disk space solution.
A new Wii system update (Wii System 4.0) is available right now, and it allows you to save and load to and from high-capacity SD cards. Considering you can fit over 30 gigs on a single card, I’m now wishing Microsoft and Sony would offer the same kind of support.
And Nintendo plan on giving you plenty of downloadable games to fill your new SD cards, as My Life as a Dark Lord: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years were both announced as WiiWare releases for 2009. Plus, classic Nintendo-era Final Fantasy games are also hitting the Virtual Console.
Also, arcade emulation has come to the Virtual Console, with Mappy, Space Harrier, Gaplus, and Star Force either available now or in the near future.
Finally, a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is coming to the DS. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks picks up where P.H. and the Gamecube classic The Wind Waker left off–only this time, you’ll trade your boat for a train.
Please, try and contain your excitement. Always with their fingers on the pulse of a nation, Nintendo are confident that like any toddler, you’re mesmerized by big machines that go choo-choo.
Sweet lord.
I make fun of Nintendo, but they’ll probably sell six trillion copies of Spirit Tracks, so joke’s on me.
Source: Gamasutra, every other gaming site on the planet
Glad to have a solution at last.
Also happy at having a new Zelda too.
BUT nothing new for the wii and NO Zelda for the wii…..