14 Comments

1. KillerHeroes says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

   It’s more like you’ll have to delete all your VC games just to have room to download this game. According to Perrin Kaplan anyway.

2. bryan3089 says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 6:58 pm

   Is this the same game, renamed, as Crystal Chronicals (which, by the way, was supposed to be a LAUNCH title)?

3. InvisibleMan says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm

   Looks like the animation and cut scenes are hardware-driven, not pre-rendered… So, the Wii might still be capable of running it without much memory usage.

4. Brandon says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

   This definitely is awesome, and definitely screams hard drive. Where are you getting these? Were they posted on Wii Ware? I guess i’ll have to check.

   My theory is this - Nintendo is afraid of hard drives because of piracy, and they’re afraid of letting you put your VC titles on flash cards because they know people will figure out how to share them without paying.

   Wish it wasn’t so.

5. Albo says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

   I really hope this starts looking like a game at some point. All I saw there was a bunch of poorly-designed characters running around a poorly-designed environment. Where’s the beef?

6. pjlucky says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

   @Bryan3089.
   This is not the FF:CC Wii game that was supposed to be a launch title. That title is still in development. Although it has been quiet for a while there was a video floating around months ago.

7. EdEN says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

   I remember reading at an interview with the developer that they are aiming for, at the most, 150 MB total for the game… which would still make it posible to fit on Wi.

8. David says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

   Or it comes shrink-wrapped on the Wii external USB hard drive.

9. Albo says...
   November 7th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

   I’m with David on this one. They aren’t seriously thinking of not releasing a HD… Just waiting for the right time.

10. droop4 says...
    November 7th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    If it doesnt screams hard-drive, it screams a big NO-NO!

11. Crunch Bar says...
    November 7th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    I’m liking the castle town setting over the small towns featured in the original FFCC. Regarding the HD thing… I don’t know. Nintendo better surprise us with a deep game that’s is ridiculously able to run without having to go through hardcore hardware changes.

12. mrdctaylor says...
    November 8th, 2007 at 9:51 am

    I saw this article linked from Digg. It has a really good suggestion on how Nintendo could stick with their strategy of not having a hard drive, but still make things user-friendly.

    “The Wii system should be updated to work behind the scenes, so it can clean your fridge out for you—to be your very own personal refrigerator maid. When that new download of Majora’s Mask maxes out your memory, the Wii knows to toss the Donkey Kong Country game you haven’t played in months. DKC will still show up in your channels, but the next time you click to play, you’ll just need to wait a few moments for it to automatically re-download—no return trip to the VC store necessary—and Tecmo Super Bowl gets shuffled off the system memory to return some other day. ”

    This really should already be there…and it could easily be accomplished with a system update.

13. Atlantis1982 says...
    November 9th, 2007 at 4:35 am

    Well, tough, Nintendo has stated countless times, no HDD. Besides, no thanks on the Wii Ware game. Better ones I rather waste my money with.

14. minus220 says...
    November 10th, 2007 at 10:41 am

    it looks good and i will defenitly get it, when it comes to the HDD i think nintendo will go with it, i think they will do what they did with the keyboard, just make a system update that will allow you to plug in any usb hdd. but nintendo will never say anything untill they are ready t anounce it themselves. they told us there was no plans for zelda on the wii b4 it came out.

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