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Breaking WiiUews: Downloaded software can't be saved to the SD card
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H_Prestige
Banned
What? He brought up several good points.
Q. Can download software saved to USB media be played on another Wii U?
A. No. Download software can only be used on 1 Wii U per 1 USB media.
Maybe I get it wrong....
MichaelVash7886
Neo Member
It isn't really clear what
actually means. I mean I mean I know I wouldn't be able to just take my HDD over to a friend's house and use it to play. But I thought they already said eshop purchases would be linked to your Nintendo Network ID.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Great! Hopefully we'll never have to hear about it again then as well.
Agent Unknown
Member
Just wanted to second Heavy Rain's concern about whether or not Wii VC & WiiWare content themselves will be tied to an account.
Fair enough. If you have an SD card that you would like to use. Is there some sort of SD to USB converter out there?? I don't think those would be too expensive right?
Again, I agree that it's a strange decision made by Nintendo, and it can be inconvenient, but it's not a crazy big deal that the Gaf hyperbole is making it out to be.
Snowden's Secret
Banned
That's my biggest question about this being a big deal. We've known for at least a year that Wii U was using Rue-Blay 23GB discs for retail games, which means you'd be able to store exactly one game on an SD card and have to swap the card everytime you played a game, which is the exact same thing as using a retail disc. I refuse to believe that anyone who planned to go digital was going to utilize SD cards, and not 0.5-2.0TB externals.
Going to be going the USB Flash Drive route myself. With my connection downloading console retail games is out of the question. PC games that can be around 5gb is one thing. Demos one thing as well. 10gb+ on the average isn't possible. Don't have the patience and don't want to monopolize the connection either. As long as the game is on a disc I'll be buying that. So once the 32gb of flash memory is used up I figured a 32gb or 64gb flash drive should be good. I see myself using both mostly for patches, DLC, and eShop games that should be a more manageable size. A 1TB drive isn't going to be necessary at all and it will be cheaper this way and more within my budget.
My only concern is the life expectancy of a flash drive vs a hard drive. Will the streaming from the drive cause it to die sooner rather then later? Or because the data is just being read like a disc and the save file should naturally be on the system things should be okay? These are questions I hope will be answerable in time.
It does make me question the life expectancy of the onboard flash memory as well and if it will be a good idea to back up once in a while since that will constantly be read from and written to more so then any extra drive. It's also not replaceable since it's on the board itself if I recall correctly.
My only concern is the life expectancy of a flash drive vs a hard drive. Will the streaming from the drive cause it to die sooner rather then later? Or because the data is just being read like a disc and the save file should naturally be on the system things should be okay? These are questions I hope will be answerable in time.
It does make me question the life expectancy of the onboard flash memory as well and if it will be a good idea to back up once in a while since that will constantly be read from and written to more so then any extra drive. It's also not replaceable since it's on the board itself if I recall correctly.
Dion Blaster
Member
I have a 3DS, I just don't feel comfortable buying anything on it due to the nature of handhelds. Just too many things could go wrong combined with Nintendo's sketchy online policy.
Perhaps there are more than a few people that still expect to go retail for 'normal' games, and only planned to use digital for eshop games, which are much smaller? Seems a reasonable expectation to be able to use a safe SD card they might have lying around, or pick up a cheap 32GB card instead of a USB drive
kitchenmotors
Banned
This.
I see that cute little chubby Yoshi avatar and always expect a post full of salt and shade.
JimboJones
Member
I don't think reading from flash memory causes much wear and tear, writing definitly does though, so it's best to avoid moving software around constantly (which is what the SD card manager on the Wii did...)
Though in saying that my Wii internal flash memory is still going after 6 years.
Anticitizen One
Banned
The wii wasn't able to do this originally either but they patched it in later. I'm sure they will do the same for wii u
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
No. I buy my fast pricey SD cards for entirely different purposes. Which, eventually, puts me in the group of those who have piles of SD cards sitting around.You did?
People buying cards. Each. Since you brought up the question, though, I used to use 3 SDs on the Wii and I had no issue with swapping those whatsoever. With the handhelds (dsi and 3ds), though, it's been mainly upgrades - the next bigger, faster card taking over the functions of the previous one. Not counting my tunes archives which all come on SDs. For the record, I don't plan to download Tekken, but I do plan to download the entire U-shop indie launch lineup on SD card(s). Well, I did.
I don't think you can, but with how fast the optical drive is, I doubt that there's a pressing need for it.
plagiarize
Banned
I actually have multiple removable USB hard drives lying around myself. Just buy a usb adapter and you're sorted. Those are really cheap. Get a small USB extension cord for convenience if you want to be able to tuck it away and still easily access it.
It really does sound like they included the SD card for Wii backwards compatibility only. They've provided a superior alternative for Wii U software. This is probably the silliest controversy yet.
Thats not the only reason I want to be able to do that tho, I would also like it for when im done playing a game I wanna back it up, then trade it in for a good price before the trade in value drops, then I can still have the game when ever I want to go back and play it.
That's never going to happen on anyone's watch, let alone Nintendo's. You're always going to need the disc.
wait a minute.......
Baconsammy
Banned
It makes for a silent console and increases the lifespan of the drive.
Right. Definetly not allowed.
So...you just want to pirate stuff?
fudgey_lumpkins
Member
Do you honestly believe they would let you play the game without the disc?
Why on earth would any game manufacturer agree to that?
I dont see why not, if you can buy games through DD and have it that way, why cant you buy cans from the store and play it like that.
It actually would benefit them cuz I will buy another new game from them
Because you're reselling the game. You can't resell DD. That will never be allowed by anyone. You can 'install' a game not 'copy' it.
You're reselling it, while also keeping it. You'd essentially have illegally created another copy of the game.
Didn't take long.
I guess I can understand how people would be salty about not being able to use SD cards to store their games, but when we can hook up externals I don't see why it's a huge deal. A 1tb drive is inexpensive as hell compared to the use you can get out of it.
Right.
Basically you want to buy a $60 game, go home and copy it, trade it in for $35 (let's assume that's day 1 trade-in value). That would mean you would be buying a $60 game for $25, and your used copy doesn't help the publishers/developers (if it gets bought). So essentially you would get new games for $25 and that would lead to more used copies for sale. That will never be allowed as it's awful for everyone on the business side.
I'd rent 20 Wii U games in a heartbeat, install them on my HDD and play forever!!
each rent cost me 3 dollars so I would be playing 20 games for the price of one.
nice huh?
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