Nintendo Wii: Downloadable Demos!

Posted on December 4, 2006 by sickr

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In what’s seen as an inevitable but welcomed move, Nintendo have announced that Wii owners with an Internet connection will be now able to download and consume new playable Wii game demo’s.

The intriguing yet-to-be-announced demo’s can be stored onto either the systems internal 512 Flash memory, or via a seperate SD memory card depending on where you wish to stash the data.

Although Nintendo themselves have yet to confirm which demo titles will be initially available, many gamers are embracing the notion that integral system releases such as the spectacular Metroid Prime: Corruption, will be available in the not too distant future.

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15 Responses to “Nintendo Wii: Downloadable Demos!”

  1. sycho4u, on December 4th, 2006 at 3:10 pm Said:

    Now that’s good news!

    How’s everything sickr?

    Later!

  2. ahrenba, on December 4th, 2006 at 3:15 pm Said:

    They will inevitably have to make the game demos smaller than 512MB, so I wonder how in-depth and long these demos will be? You could probably get a pretty decent one in that size, but since they have to assume that most people only have 512MB, so they are forced to keep them small. I guess we’ll see soon enough. :)

  3. eamonn, on December 4th, 2006 at 4:44 pm Said:

    Very nifty this, although, as you said, inevitable.

  4. marcinkiw, on December 4th, 2006 at 5:13 pm Said:

    I would like Mario Galaxy more than Metroid :P

  5. Maxz, on December 4th, 2006 at 5:34 pm Said:

    Yay! This is awsome news!

  6. sickr, on December 4th, 2006 at 5:43 pm Said:

    I’m very good ‘Sycho4u, thanks very much for asking :)
    How’s life now you’ve received the elusive Wii?
    With regards to the topic at hand, like ‘Ahrenba’ pointed out they’re going to have to decide just how expansive the initial demo’s are set to be, due to the storage medium having a some-what limited capacity. Though this will without a doubt help boost sales of of Sandisks SD Cards.
    ;)

  7. Jason, on December 4th, 2006 at 8:26 pm Said:

    Thank god, i’m glad the Wii is bringing this stuff to the table. It’d be good to get a taste of games like the 360 offers. Lets hope this is soon.

  8. Gil, on December 9th, 2006 at 4:57 pm Said:

    it’s a great step for Nintendo that I see bringing in tons of revenue. I can’t wait to be able to test out wii games before I buy em. Way to go Nintendo!

  9. Mitchyd, on December 16th, 2006 at 11:29 am Said:

    Nice news bit. I know I am stoked for it.

  10. Goo, on December 22nd, 2006 at 6:18 am Said:

    I hope Mario Galaxy will be on the the starting lineup for demos!

  11. ter, on January 19th, 2007 at 7:29 pm Said:

    will the demos be console locked

  12. PHSYCOELMO, on March 7th, 2007 at 10:09 am Said:

    i have a psp and a wii the psp has alot of demos that are long with good graphics that only take 30 mb or less so nintendo should have no problem making demos for the wii

  13. PHSYCOELMO, on March 7th, 2007 at 10:10 am Said:

    512 mb memory card or internal memory

  14. Anthony, on September 17th, 2007 at 8:52 pm Said:

    yeah and in the future (now) IT’S ONLY A PREVEIW

  15. ArtOfWarfare, on February 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm Said:

    Now… it’s been over 15 months… and I haven’t seen anything about this since.

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