Nintendo Presser: The Rest of the Story
October 2nd, 2008, 3:08 am by David Chapman (No Comments)
(+4 rating, 4 votes) 
Obviously, the big news out of Nintendo’s press event in Tokyo this morning had to be the unveiling of the new Nintendo DSi handheld, but that was far from the only news coming from the Big N’s conference today.
After starting off with the big DSi news, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata talked about a new deal reached with McDonald’s restaurants in Japan for expanded DS download kiosks, now dubbed “Nintendo Zone”, followed up by news on the upcoming Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Dragon Quest IX DS titles. Iwata then addressed an issue that’s plagued Wii owners since launch: insufficient storage space for downloads. Rather than whip out the long rumored Wii hard drive, though, Iwata announced that starting in Spring 2009, Wii owners will be able to download content from the Wii Shop Channel directly to SD cards installed in the console. (more…)
