Nintendo Japan har bekräftat via sin hemsida att nedladdad Wii U-mjukvara inte kan sparas till SD-kort. Istället får vi använda konsolens interna minne eller en extern hårddisk. Så här skriver Nintendo:
"Downloaded software can only be played on the Wii U it was originally bought from. Meaning if you download a game to an external HDD and try to use that HDD on another Wii U, it won't work. Downloaded software is saved to the internal memory or what's in the USB slot. Downloaded software can't be saved to the SD card."