Ingenting har visserligen skrivits i sten ännu, men enligt det pressmeddelande som eSOL skickat ut finns det åtminstone nu en möjlighet till att vi ska kunna använda andra lagringsmetoder än SD-kort till Wii. #Nintendo har nämligen valt att köpa eSOLs middleware-produkter som möjliggör större möjligheter för konsolen att utnyttja extern media, bland annat via USB-portar.

eSOL Products Selected for the New Game Console "Wii" from Nintendo

(Tokyo, Japan - April 4, 2007) eSOL Co., Ltd. announced today that their leading embedded middleware products, "PrFILE2" FAT file system and "PrUSB/Host" USB host stack, were selected for the "Wii", from Nintendo Co.;.

Both software products constitute fundamental functionalities in the Wii console - managing and transferring data and files with external media. In particular, PrFILE2 provides file management functions which read and write data of theSD memory card, as well as other media;. PrUSB/Host functions are used in Wii, to provide USB host functions.

More details of Wii: http://www.nintendo.com/techspecwii