After This Generation dies...

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

You should really be worried when in 15 years your Wii's flash memory fails and needs to be re-formatted.

[Curlypaul]

I'm still wondering what will happen to all my save game files when my Wii eventually breaks. All of them are saved to the hard-drive and I'm worried that I'll lose em' all when my Wii kick's the bucket.

You can of course dump them all onto the SD card and back them up on your PC

[Dakinggamer87]

Chief, you just asked the million dollar question of this generation.

Yeah, I agree completely.. It has been asked many times by gamers!! I agree that cartridges are king..

[the King]

I'm still wondering what will happen to all my save game files when my Wii eventually breaks. All of them are saved to the hard-drive and I'm worried that I'll lose em' all when my Wii kick's the bucket.

Why are you counting on your Wii breaking? It's not like it's made by Sony or Microsoft...

[Ziggy]

Everything eventually dies.

About the downloading services though, I'd assume they'd work similar to Microsoft's updates. They come out with their new OS, or "system" and support the older one for a number of years (because plenty of people still use it) and then eventually discontinue it. They call it product life cycle. I can see the video game systems working the same way.

[superlarz]

I'm still wondering what will happen to all my save game files when my Wii eventually breaks. All of them are saved to the hard-drive and I'm worried that I'll lose em' all when my Wii kick's the bucket.

Why are you counting on your Wii breaking? It's not like it's made by Sony or Microsoft...

because nintendo NEVER makes a system with a major design flaw.... (looks at his original NES)

[superlarz]

I think one company will create a standard about how longterm user accounts will work with gaming machines. The optimist in me see's a system where you simply plug your Xbox Live id into the new Xbox, connect an ethernet or USB cable between the two and transfer all of the data. The Xbox marketplace should just be an ever expanding store, and content should be available for download until demand is very small. Maybe very old material could be re-downloaded by request after it is no longer live on marketplace.


Just a bunch of idea's. If they want this business to be long term they will have to figure something out. Everyone isn't thinking about this yet, but next-generation this could be a major buying point for the company that gets it right.

For something like Xbox Live or even PSN this is possible, but for Wii, which everything is tied to the console and there is no other type of account involved it may be more complicated

[RCBH928]

I am guessing in xbox/psn it will just move on to the next system but i won't be surprised if they make you pay like a $1 on each game you bought on the earlier generation because they new system needed all games to be updated to work with it(liars) .

In the Wii's case I think the company might figure a solution. Maybe something like a wire to transfer all your games.

No worries though, everything will be online for downloading pirated. Sometimes I think pirating should be legal

[Curlypaul]

Well you could always use an SD card rather than a propietry cable. I think putting an SD card in the wii was a great idea, makes it much easier to transfere stuff than a custom memory card.

I cant see how making piracy legal would benefit anybody but most companies dont care about stuff that isnt available to buy at the minute as it doesnt hurt their market.

[RemyC]

Why aren't hard copies of these games made available?