Topic: USB Thumb Drives compatible with Wii?

[trip1eX]

Be nice if they were.  Probably easier for most folks to transfer music and photos from their pc to their Wii.  

Oh and how about networking.  Can I transfer music and photos over the network to an sd card inserted into the Wii or to the built-in flash memory?  

Some how I think the answer is no given that Nintendo is very cost conscious.  

 

[Edfishy]

I thought at one point Nintendo suggested that you could connect any type of USB hardrive, but they'll probably code in some sort of a restriction so that only Nintendo(And Perlican, of course) branded USB drives work.

[BigJim]

They confirmed the possibility of using USB-based media for storage, but never announced any actual support or products.

The safe answer is "no" for now, but we'll see what happens in the next year.

[Bloodworth]

At this point the data manager only recognizes internal memory, SD cards, and GameCube cards.  You can't even transfer saves from SD cards without connecting to the network first, so I guess there's some firmware update needed.  They can likely update the firmware again if they want to make USB storage compatible.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Is this another news item for the "NINTENDO PHAIL REPORT"? =D