Haha. OWNED.

had me fooled for 2 seconds lol

I really doubt the storage solution Nintendo is thinking about is going to be a hard disk drive.
It should be noted that Nintendo is already doing something the audience requested and that they originally didn't want to think+build+sell-cheap a device of this kind, so there are very few chances they are doing it also the way people want it.

I do really hope their plan is that of supporting bigger SDs (2GB was the limit for the Wii some times ago) and being able to run software directly from there.
That would be very smart....well in reality I mean that every other solution would be just stupid. HDDs are cheap enough but definetely too big, while Solid State Memories are still extrememely expensive (talking of course of at least 64GB).

It's real! Real I tells ya.

*lives in denial

hehehe
good one though

haha, i laugh at it's fakeness

I would not get hyped about extra storage space until Nintendo actually announces it with their own words. So I would have ignored this gimmick anyway.

Funny!
I have the same Model of external Hard-Disk-Drive in black color since one and a half years. It is produced by Fujitsu Siemens!

I hope they announce one at E3. Even if it's only like 4GB that's good enough. I just want the ability to fill all 48 channel slots.

Also, the model type says RVT-R1, while all Wii-related products start with RVL.

Damn, they should just go and make one. I'm running out of space on my WIi.

Dammit guys! I saw "The Wii Hard Drive is Here!" in my rss feed and got all excited!

Even if Nintendo was to solve the storage solution with a harddrive, I don't think it would look as stock as that one does. It'd likely be glossy white, like the console, and be much smaller. Of course I believe the solution will come in the form of SD readability via a firmware update, so I'm not expecting that they're working on an external memory device like this one.

Ha ha! "we will treat steering wheel carefully!" Maybe they're talking about the Mario Kart Wii peripheral?

Haha - that's funny.

Like Rapadash6, I think a firmware update supporting SDHC would at least temporarily help.

Geez, what a hobby, making fake hardware accessories...

If you want to fill al 48 slots I guess even a 1GB HD would be enough, since the Wii storage that is open for use is only 256 MB!

I thought there was more like 380MB available to the user.

Ah geez :cbI thought that was real (until I saw the RVT sign) I wish these people didn't do this final.

well i was told it has 512 mb to start with. the weird thing is a flash drive is 512 and its not big i wonder what the hardrive looks like in the wii and it shouldnt be that big if theres a smaller size ones with same memory. what nintendo should had done was made it a 2gb wii i dont really see it making the console bigger in my vision anyways.

That was pretty fake-looking and its funny he got the name wrong, Everyone know that the serial start with 3 letters based on the codename (Nitro for Ds and Revolution for Wii) What a dummy. All I want as a storgae solution is a firmware update. You know the one I speak of. Peopl can get a 2GB Made-For-Wii SanDisk SD Card for $20 where I live.

It looks more like a pirated NES peripheral to me. Maybe an NES hard drive you can store illegal roms to and run it through your NES some how to play them in their piratey goodness.

The label with the serial number etc on isn't even a sticker, it's just been typed up on a computer, printed out and placed on top of this 'Wii HDD'. I'd say whoever did this is more of a geek and otaku than us.

EDIT: I just had a thought. Maybe this isn't quite fake. Maybe it's a HDD from a Nintendo employees work computer lol.

Nice. Your not getting away that easy, Robert334. This is the internet after all.

This actually looks pretty convincing...NOT! Burned, robert334, BURRRRNNED!

When I first saw this article I thought the wii actually DID get a hard drive.

Pretty wellmade pictures anyway. I really hope for a way to play every downloaded game without the nuisance to erase and reload. But really, I don´t think Nintendo cares about it. But they are free to surprise me at E3...

In the end, the solution I expect to see from Big N would be a small USB flash memory device, maybe multiple models, ranging in capacity from 4 to 16 gig.

Seriously, 16 gig SD 2.0 cards can be found in the $50 American range. I'd happily plunk down 50 bucks for 16 gig of storage for my Wii.

First half of the title had me fooled for a second
I've given up waiting, I'll just be surprised if we do get something.
I'm a bit fed up though, I've completed less than 20% of my VC games and not played about 15% of them for more than an hour because I've had to delete them before getting a chance.

How long can the "geeks and otaku" fire burn after the guy apologized?

I don't really care if they make a Hard Drive. All I want is more SD card support.

I think the most glaring mistake with this faux hardrive is that it does not adhere to the Wii console aesthetic at all . I would imagine that if Nintendo eventually released this product, it would at least seamlessly blend in with the console itself. Kind of like how the ill fated HD-DVD player did for the 360.

Gee this guy is someone to laugh at .
I just rather stick to using the 2GB SD card which has more than enough storage for my needs which means my Wii don't need to be combatible to SDHC cards .

I be thinking what to delete when i get 2 new Wii points cards later ready for My pokémon Ranch .

@Kazi777. It'll burn forever and ever and ever and ever. Trust me. It's become a reference on this site 4 life.

If there was a real Wii hard drive, I wonder how many GB Nintendo would put on it?

@Kazi777
He didn't really apologize either, he just kinda said that he respected geeks and otakus. If you look in his "apology" he never says "sorry" or "I apologize" or anything to that effect. So yeah this fire's gonna burn baby burn.

"He didn't really apologize either, he just kinda said that he respected geeks and otakus. If you look in his "apology" he never says "sorry" or "I apologize" or anything to that effect. So yeah this fire's gonna burn baby burn."

That's incorrect. He didn't apologize because he had nothing to apologize for. If you read his comments, he said the words that came out of his mouth were misconstrued by the press. How many times have you said something you didn't really believe was true in a joking manner? Now what if somebody took that innocent comment and splattered it all over the net? I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed...