14 DAY TRIAL // Until now, it seemed that everybody except for Nintendo was aware of the storage problem the Wii has. In a recent interview, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime admitted that the company is aware of the problem and that they're trying to come up with a solution. This means that, unfortunately, the rumors we heard last month about an external hard disk drive coming to the Wii were false. Well, at least we know we'll get something. We don't know what or when.
Speaking to MTV Multiplayer, Fils-Aime said, "We have a consumer base who loves Virtual Console. We have a user-base who really is enjoying WiiWare content. So, our challenge really is how do we satisfy all these consumers who lovw all the products we make available on a download basis? We have said publicly that we're looking hard at the storage situation that we're working on a range of solutions. We have nothing to announce now. But certainly it's an issue we are aware of and we're working to find a solution and we will".
As you probably know, the recently crowned best selling current-gen console in North America (and probably in the world) only comes with an internal 512 MB of memory, which is incredibly low. We know that the console supports SD cards, which translates into up to 2 GB increase in storage space (since that's the maximum the Wii can see at the moment), but it's still not enough - just consider that any decent game released nowadays needs at least 5 GB of space!
Of course, the Nintendo Wii games go in a different category and we're only talking here about downloadable titles, which will never reach the size of recent releases, but either way you put it, storage space is a problem. We're very happy to hear that Nintendo acknowledged the problem and it's working on finding a solution: this should keep everybody happy.