Wii console and Wiimote

I was going to take a look a SSX Blur tonight, but my body is under siege from that monthly annoyance. The thought of trying to skillfully move flail my arms around knocks me sick. Damn you excruciating stabby cramps.

Anywho, the perfect solution for this kind of staying-completely-still situation is games played with the Wii classic controller (or side on Wiimote) from the Wii Shop. When I got my Wii this time last year, to be honest, I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it. It became the source of much hatred when my ex became addicted to to Wii sports. Of all the games he could have ignored me for, it was this and Championship Manager 2006. Seriously, I have no respect for him now. But once I’d erased his game profiles, high scores and Wii Mii, I could claim back the Wii as my own and start exploring the possibilities.

The Wii Shop was a complete revelation to me; I could download and play games that I hadn’t seen for years. Oh the possibilites. To be honest though, after downloading a tonne of games costing me an amount of Wii points that doesn’t even bear thinking about in real money terms, I only really play Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Back in the day, my friend and I would always play Sonic 3 when we got in from school. She was always Sonic and I was always Tails. Mostly because I was crap at it and couldn’t be trusted being the principal character, but also because that way I would spend most of my time off screen

I was perusing digg.com earlier on this evening when I came across this article. I had no idea that the storage space on a Wii is a tiny 0.5 gb. It didn’t even cross my mind that anything available today that requires storage would have a capacity so small. I can’t imagine that the downloadable games take up a huge amount of space but it does start to add up eventually. The SD card slot seemed like the perfect solution but you can’t play games from off of the card, so some moving around channels is required. Will Nintendo make games playable off an SD card or will they produce an additional hardware perhiperal for us to buy?

While they’re deciding, can they make the DS Lite support WPA-PSK2 so it can join in with my secure home network?

K? Thanx.