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http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152668

According to this, Sony has "everything under control" as far as getting your old PS1 and PS2 saves to a PS3 (for anyone who decides to buy it).

Problem? Since it does not in fact have slots for old memory cards, you'll need to buy an adapter.

Fortunatly, once moved over you can actually just create "virtual memory cards" (which is something that should have been done when the PS2 hard disk was released actually, as it's just plain easier than always moving files back and forth when you want to play a game) on the hard disk so you can store all your old data and much much more. I assume you have to actively assign various virtual memory cards to "slots" before playing the game, but that's fine. No more awkward than inserting and removing memory cards manually.

Now MS, it's YOUR turn.

Come to think of it, I hope Nintendo includes "virtual memory card creation" in their Wii system. It would be a lot cheaper than buying new Gamecube memory cards, that's for sure. A one-time copy of all my data into the Wii flash memory or a memory stick (or hopefully a hard disk) and then all I ever really need to do, assuming I ever actually have so many saves it'll be required, is just reassing various "virtual memory cards" to memory card slots. The big thing in this though is that Nintendo needs to allow ANY of the saved data to be moved (if not copied). The system could easily be designed to do just that if they wanted to. If the data can be read off the memory card, it can be copied. I mean yeesh, who cares if someone makes a copy of F-Zero GX data anyway?

Sounds good, there'll be an adaptor for PS1/PS2 games... I was wondering about that, it would have been annoying if they went the MS route... (as for MS, as we've said before, it would be harder for them to do. They'd have to do something like Datel's cable and 360 attachment... I don't think they want to, and I don't think that this will make them do it.)

Anyway, as for Nintendo, yes, you definitely should be able to FULLY back up your memory cards... I bet we won't be able to (especially the not movable saves, but any form of official memcard-to-wii memory/sd card backup seems, while possible, not overly probable... just doesn't seem like something Nintendo is likely to do, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong...), but they really, really should do it...

The main thing I wonder is if the Wii will support upgradable firmware or OS software of some other sort so that features can be added to, just like the 360 can and as the PS3 will reportedly be capable of (and the PSP already is).

Apparently many have hacked the DS firmware, but as of yet Nintendo has made no attempt at all to update the DS's firmware officially (aside from games that set up the settings for wifi in the system, but even then that option is not added to the firmware natively, it still must be accessed via the games) and I have my doubts they have any intention to do so.

From reviews I've seen, surfing the net via the DS is actually not that much of an improvement. The speed and memory issues still plague it and the touch screen still isn't quite enough to replace a mouse and keyboard. As it stands, my laptop is still the net surfing solution of choice. The only real issue is that while the PSP's browser is free, and thus worth downloading for those emergency net surfing situations, the DS's costs money.

Quote:Apparently many have hacked the DS firmware, but as of yet Nintendo has made no attempt at all to update the DS's firmware officially (aside from games that set up the settings for wifi in the system, but even then that option is not added to the firmware natively, it still must be accessed via the games) and I have my doubts they have any intention to do so.

Nintendo doesn't understand the internet yet, and doesn't understand what it has to do to stop cheaters... it will eventually, but for now it's clearly seriously lacking.