Wii getting external hard drive?

Rooting around jobs listings on the official Nintendo site isn’t something we’re prone to do. But eagle eyed bloggers have dug up plans by the Japanese gaming giant to hire a “Wii Software/Hardware developer who can develop “a plan for Wii’s USB devices.”

Hmmm, interesting. Nintendo has always said it wasn’t keen to stick a hard drive inside their machine, but have intimated that a USB version could be on the cards.

This now seems highly likely, in spite of comments last week suggesting players who downloaded stacks of content from WiiWare would just have to delete games from their paltry 512MB hard drive.

The Wii will be two years old this Christmas, so what’s the betting that a USB hub will give it a nice bump and keep it top of the charts for another year? Let us know what you think in the comments section.

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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