15,000 Blocks For Just $15

I always hated memory cards. I never could remember what game saves I had on which one and it would always turn out to be the memory card that I tried last. Thankfully Nintendo has included a good amount of memory built in to the Wii and most games only take up a few blocks of space. Heck, Zelda only takes up 1 block and you get close to 2000 blocks to start with. So, most of us will be good for some time, but in the event you do need more space you can always invest in an SD Card. That is if you don't already have one. You can purchase the official Sandisk 1.0 GB Nintendo SD Card for about $40, and I believe it's $60 for the 2 GB. That seemed quite too high for me, so I decided not to get one. Besides, I wouldn't even need it for at least a year, unless I started downloading alot of Virtual Console games, which I did not forsee myself doing anytime soon.

However, I came upon a deal on a 2 GB Kingston SD Card that I simply could not refuse. The first time I had found the deal I waited too long to act and it expired, but I made sure to keep watching it and sure enough they had another rebate offer on it, but this time it was even lower! Buy.com had it for the original price of $39.95 (That's still much cheaper then the Nintendo/Sandisk card.) but with a rebate it was only $14.95! For those of you not good at math that's $45 dollars less than Sandisk's 2GB Wii SD Card and $25 less than the 1 gig! I made sure I didn't miss this opportunity and quickly ordered my own.

It wasn't long until I recieved it in the mail, I was eager to find out just how many more blocks this would add to my memory space and I figured it would at least double the amount already on the system, maybe even triple it. So I plug it in, go to the memory screen in the options and check my SD Card and find out that it added an absolutely staggering 15,709 blocks!! It didn't double it, nor triple it, not even quadruple. No, it nearly octupled it! And for just $15. I could barely believe it. Of course I'll never need this much space, but at least I'll never have to worry about running out of room even if I download every single Virtual Console game that is ever available or purchase 200 Wii games.

So, if you're looking for a cheap way to get alot more memory space for the Wii check out Buy.com's deal on the Kingston 2GB SD Card. The rebate that I had is still going on if you'd like to go ahead and get one, but if you wait and it ends, just wait awhile, they have them every so often. You can always pass it by though and go purchase a different one for more than double the price, but if you like saving money like me, this deal is for you.