Nintendo Announces 'Storage Solution' For Wii - Available Today

"Your games will no longer be competing for space in the system memory," Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen announced today. During Satoru Iwata's keynote at GDC Trinen revealed the features of Wii System Menu 4.0, which is going live today.

According to Trinen:

-A single SD card can now hold up to 240 titles.

-The Wii can now handle high-capacity SD cards, up to 32GB,

-Content will be downloadable directly from the Wii shop channel to the SD card. The game scan be launched from the SD card with, according to Trinen, "A short loading time." (To launch NES game "The Legend of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" took about four seconds during Trinen's demonstration)