Finally, Wii responds to the installation of the game, Nintendo filed a patent

Since Nintendo's stationary game machine "Wii" does not support HDD as with PS3 and Xbox 360, it can not play games by installing it in HDD, depending on game software, depending on the type of game software, There is a possibility that the sound of the game may become matter of concern, but the possibility that it will be able to finally install the game came out.

A patent has already been filed and you can know how Nintendo intends to install the game from the submitted data.

Details are as below.
Nintendo Investigating Wii Hard Drive System // Siliconera

According to this article, Nintendo seems to have filed a patent for installing games in the United States on Wii.

When the game disk is installed in the HDD, a partition is created for each game disk installed in the HDD, and the Wii recognizes the partition as a virtual DVD so that the game can be played .

Materials submitted by Nintendo.


It supports installing multiple game discs, and the user can choose which game to play.


Because there is a security problem, if there is a possibility that separate exclusive HDD will be prepared like Xbox 360, if it is possible to use an inexpensive USB external HDD which is commercially available as the installation HDD , I'm pretty happy.