Wii don't need no stinking HDD's

This rumour is completely bizarre in my view (jeux france story). I just can't see any reason to add an external hard-disc to a Wii. Thankfully Nintendo have set the record straight and dismissed them.

Solid-state storage is just getting larger and cheaper. Even in the UK you can get decent enough 1GB SD cards for around £6 while even high quality named brands are available for under £10. Elsewhere in the world these things are even cheaper, I was recently walking around a computer centre in Hong Kong and the price of all forms of memory cards was amazingly low compared to even a year ago. Branded 'Wii' SD cards tend to go for a premium but they still won't break the bank, you'd just be mad to buy them. I'm not sure if the Wii fully supports SDHC cards but if it does then 8GB cards are now hitting the market and we're sure to see larger devices available in the future. 16GB Compact Flash cards are here as are 32GB solid-state discs. These are all currently selling at a premium but it wasn't that long ago that 1GB SD cards were upto 10x their current cost. There is an explosion in solid-state storage across the board.

Overall SD cards are definitely a more elegant solution than a bulky external HDD. Throw on into your Wii, close the flap and you wouldn't even know it's there.

Just because Sony and Microsoft are fighting over HDD's there's no need for Nintendo to get involved. Nintendo made it very clear they are not in the 'media hub' business and unlike the other two giants with their vested interest, they have no need to be. Unless of course we want to start rumours of media player functionality being made available in upgrades or plans to have "Super Mario Bros." the film downloadable from the Wii Shop Channel!