Wii Anouncements from GDC

[thelocaluk]

A few bits of news from yesterday regarding the Wii:

First we had Virtual Console, then WiiWare, now the Wii gets Virtual Console Arcade. The VC Arcade launched with four games: Gaplus, Mappy and Tower of Druaga from Namco Bandai, and Starforce from Tecmo. The games sell for $5-$6 each.

The Wii's storage issues has now been solved with an update available today. Wii's System Menu 4.0 now allows high-capacity SD cards to be used on Wii. An icon for the storage now appears on the menu, and is available as an update immediately. HCSD cards can be as large as 32GB.

Starting in May in Japan, the first six classic Final Fantasy titles will be released on Wii's Virtual Console service. Hopefully this will include the rest of the planet.

[munkle]

Lots of great announcements from this, obviously the storage one being the most beneficial. Also great to see news of a new DS Zelda that Nintendo assure us will be out this year :)

Good to see Nintendo bringing Arcade games to the Virtual console too, downloads should go through the roof now people have the space on their console to store them ;) :D

The next few months should see some brilliant games hitting the shelves.