 At the Nintendo Fall Press Conference in October 2008 , Satoru Iwata announced that Wii owners would have the option to download WiiWare and Virtual Console content directly onto an SD card . The option would offer an alternative to " address the console 's insufficient memory storage " . The announcement stated that it would be available in Japan in spring 2009 ; Nintendo made the update available on March 25 . In addition to the previously announced feature , it lets the player load Virtual Console and WiiWare games directly from the SD card . The update allows the use of SDHC cards , increasing the limit on SD card size from 2 GB to 32 GB . 
