Official press release from eSOL:
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
In addition, the company had this to say:
“I am very happy that we could take part in the development for Wii, a new game console from Nintendo. I believe that our products were selected because Nintendo highly-valued our long, successful history with many digital consumer products and high-reliability and functionality based on that. We will continue to provide superior products and technical services to strongly support developers in embedded software development.”
- Nobuyuki Ueyama, Executive Vice President, Embedded Products Division at eSOL.
Looks like Nintendo has finally heard all the complaints about inaccurate storage capacity with the Wii’s included 512MB and quietly contracted a partner to help come up with a solution (or maybe they were planning it all along). Hey, if we can all make some noise and get a memory storage solution out of Nintendo, maybe all is not lost for the anti-Friend Code movement.
