Without an SD card slot, transferring saves is impossible on the Wii Mini.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/32673
The Wii Mini will not support SD cards, Nintendo of Canada has confirmed to us.
Without an SD card slot, the Wii Mini is incapable of importing or exporting saves. It was known that the Wii Mini would not be able to take part in the Wii U transfer process due to its lack of internet functionality, but now we know you cannot transfer saves by swapping SD cards with its successor. On a standard Wii, players could copy and move save files and downloaded software between system memory and the inserted SD card.
Nintendo of Canada's Matt Ryan also detailed the difference between the Wii Mini and Wii U markets this holiday season, "... they are two very different products for a different type of player. It really depends on the experience that players want and their preferred investment in their gaming console. If a player just wants to play Wii games, Wii mini is a great choice at a great price. If the player wants more from their system, Wii U is the latest innovation of fun from Nintendo."
The Wii Mini is Nintendo's recent redesign of the Wii console that has no internet functionality or GameCube compatibility. It will be available on Canadian store shelves December 7, and will retail for $99.99.
This continues to baffle me. Who exactly is going to want this thing? With so many feature taken out it feels overpriced at $99.
Wii was very popular for Netflix usage.@ $99 this would've made a perfect game playing netflix player for the spare TV and kids rooms.
Wifi should have stayed in just for that alone.
Theyshould have it come with a game boy advance micro, so you have 2 worthless stripped down consoles
Theyshould have it come with a game boy advance micro, so you have 2 worthless stripped down consoles
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's not say things we can't take back! GBA Micro was awesome, despite being unable to play GB/GBC games. Plus, it had a headphone input jack, so it had that over the GBA SP.
Pale, you can get a GameCube for much less than $99, and it fully supports progressive scan. Not all games use it, but Wii can only run those same select titles in 480p.
Apple doesn't rerelease products with less features to make them slimmer. Thats Sony.
What about the newest Macbook Pro and iMac models that remove the optical drive?Apple doesn't rerelease products with less features to make them slimmer. Thats Sony.
Um, the iPod shuffle says Hi.
Apple is just about the only manufacture I have seen be stupid enought to remove the optical drive (other than in net books). There is no benefit to the consumers (and don't say cost, because Apple already overcharges for products, and they just keep the savings for themselves).
You guys are really missing the point. Nintendo designed this to increase their profit margin for legacy Wii sales, not just now but for years to come. The people who will consider buying a Wii at this point don't care about the features being removed. Omitting components gives Nintendo flexibility to eventually lower the price even further to continue squeezing out sales from a very old platform. This tradition goes back to the mid-90s with the redesigns of NES, SNES, and even Genesis.
If they didn't remove GameCube support, this would be the cheapest way by far to play GameCube games in progressive scan. Thankfully my old Wii is still holding on for that though I worry it will break.
And UncleBob will probably get like 4 of these things.
And UncleBob will probably get like 4 of these things.
Just one... maybe. :D
It *is* pretty awesome looking.
What about through USB port? Can you connect external (SD) device?It probably doesn't have USB ports either.
No one has mentioned the biggest problem with having no SD slot.
How can ExciteTruck be properly appreciated without the custom soundtrack feature?
The update took it out of the Photo Channel, but Excite Truck still reads .mp3 files.
Maybe USB is how Nintendo will allow you to transfer save data from the Wii Minus to the Wii U in the future. Since there's no Virtual Console or Wii Ware DRM and whatnot to worry about, transferring data can perhaps be handled this way.
