GDC09: Nintendo updates Wii Shop Channel with 'SD Card
Channel' [update]

post from Joystiq on 25 March 2009 01:40:00 PM. © Joystiq

[Update: the Wii now supports SDHC cards up to 32GB! Here are some more exclamation points for storage! !!!!!]
At his GDC 2009 keynote, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will announce, Apple-style, that a Wii Shop Channel update will be available to all. We ran over to the Wii and began the agonizing update process to discover -- an 'SD Card Channel?' Yes, it would seem that the vaunted "storage solution" has arrived.

"Welcome to the SD Card Menu! Here, you can launch channels saved on SD Cards by temporarily utilizing the Wii System Memory." CONFIRMED. That's right, launch from SD.

If your system memory is full, you still have to delete stuff, but there's now a streamlined, automated process to do that from this new SD card channel. It will even choose stuff for you, if you want.