Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Rumors on the Wii's successor: Wii 2: New Nintendo console without a hard disk

Nintendo Wii 2 is not equipped with the hard drive. Only 8 gigabytes (GB) flash memory are therefore on board. This would have been but 16 times more capacity than the previous Wii, but compared to Playstation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360, the new Nintendo device from old: Sony ships the PS3 factory hard drives with a size of up to 320 GB Microsoft's Daddelkiste shines with up to 250 GB of storage.

Should the speculation prove to be correct, it would be the small flash memory, especially for online services is a bottleneck. Games, music, patches and downloadable content, the 8-GB-brand reach. Apparently Nintendo lays the solution of the problem in the hands of the user: The report mentions a slot for SD cards.

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