Nintendo Wii 2 Has 8GB of Flash-Based Storage, 25GB Game Discs

A brand new report about the Nintendo Wii successor has just surfaced, this time detailing the onboard storage of the new console as well as the capacity of the discs it will use for games or the resolution it will play them on.

The successor to the Nintendo Wii has been rumored for quite some time now, but, after the Japanese company itself confirmed that it will present the device at next month's E3 conference, lots of other rumors have begun surfacing.

We've heard quite a lot of them in recent weeks, and Kotaku has now revealed its own batch of possible Wii 2 details.

According to the report, the next Nintendo home console will have 8GB of onboard storage, but not as a hard drive, like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, but as a simple Flash-based memory.

While this is definitely good news, as opposed to the 512MB flash memory in the current Wii, it's a far cry from the 20GB, 160GB or 250GB hard drives found in various PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 models.

This memory should be enough for downloading and storing various retro games off of Nintendo's Virtual Console online services, and might even be enough to allow it to receive game patches or demos.

The Wii successor will make up for its relatively small internal storage capacity with the discs it will use for games, as Kotaku also claims that Nintendo is developing its own technology that will produce discs that can fit around 25GB of data.

This is way more than the 7GB or so of information that can be squeezed into an Xbox 360 DVD, while on par with the 25GB capacity of a standard single-layer Blu-ray disc for the PlayStation 3.

Last but not least, the new console will be capable of outputting into high-definition resolutions, but it's not clear if it's going to reach the 1080p Full HD resolution, or just the 1080i, which is basically an expanded version of the 720p HD ready resolution.

Still, as opposed to the 480p reached by the current Wii, players will no doubt feel the difference with the new device.

Bear in mind that these are just rumors, as of yet, so, until Nintendo's E3 press conference, we still can't say for sure just what features the Wii successor will have.