I am an avid passionate PC gamer, but I decided to buy a Nintendo Wii to play with my girlfriend and my nephews when they visit us.
Unfortunately I have zero knowledge of console in general, coming from "PC Steam world". I am wondering if also for Wii do exist a digital distribution of game patches (in particular), DLC, etc.
Do I need to connect my Wii directly to internet or is it possible downloading patches with PC and use a memory card or a USB device to transfer them to the Wii?
Best Answer
There is no official way to apply updates to a Wii apart from connecting it to the Internet.
Wii games are never patched: Nintendo has a strict no-patch policy, with the idea that a game shouldn't ever need patches after release to be feature-complete or free of major bugs. The result of this is threefold:
The Wii does need a network connection for some non-essential features. These include:
The one essential thing the Wii needs the network for is when a newly-released game requires a particular system version in order to run. The first game I noticed this with was Rock Band: Beatles, which wouldn't run until I updated to (if I recall correctly) system menu 4.3. With a newly-purchased Wii you won't run into this for some time, but when you eventually do it will be a show-stopper if the Wii doesn't have network access.
Even for system updates and features that do require a network connection, a constant connection is not required. Once the data is on the Wii or the update applied, you can disconnect the Wii from the network and use the Wii normally.