subject: Other Hardware Features Of Nintendo Wii [print this page] DVD-ROM - The Nintendo Wii utilises a simple, slot-loading DVD-ROM as its optical drive. The illuminated drive accepts both Wii DVDs as well as GameCube game disks.
Given the low graphics requirements of Nintendo Wii, most of the games designed for the system fit on simple 4.5 GB DVDs, thus leading to a lot of piracy for the system's titles.
Surprisingly, though, the Nintendo Wii cannot play back DVD-Video or DVD-Audio disks. Nintendo was apparently not looking at making this a convergence box and instead focussed solely on the ability to bring out a them game console alone. And a good one too.
Hard Drive - The Nintendo Wii comes equipped with 512 MB of internal flash memory, which can be expanded via an SD card of upto 32 GB in size. This SD card has various uses such as uploading photos, backing up saved games, create customised in-game music from stored MP3 files, etc.
The lack of a physical hard drive in the Nintendo Wii is no surprise, given the low memory requirements its data and games have.
Connectivity - The low graphical capabilities of the console do not enable it to produce high-definition content. Hence, the Nintendo Wii comes with a simple MultiAV sort for component, composite and S-video connectivity.
The console controllers connect to it wirelessly via Bluetooth, and come with their own built-in speakers.
For internet connectivity, while there is no Ethernet port, the two USB ports are compatible with USB to Ethernet LAN adaptors. Alternately, the Nintendo Wii's onboard WiFi chip could simply sniff out an active connection and log online.
And of course, to get the Sensor Bar going to detect the moments of the Nintendo Wii remote, there's a power port for the same.
