For the 28 Wii owners out there who actually use the WiiWare game download service, the 512MB storage space that the console offers just isn’t enough. Sure, you can copy your games to an SD card, but you can’t play them while they’re on there, unless I have my facts wrong and that fiddling with the settings on a Wii for 2 minutes before getting bored and turning it off didn’t really count as “research”.

Still, help may be at hand, according to word in the gaming grapevine. Jump, my boy, jump!

According to CNET (and in turn, according to Kotaku, and then according to CVG and then according to Go Nintendo…sources is sources) an interview with Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aime (you know the one: he sent us all to sleep at E3 with his maths lesson) reveals that there’s some sort of expanded form of Wii storage space on the way. Curiously, it wont be a hard drive.

Quite what it will be Reggie didn’t say, but if it’s anything like online storage I will slap Nintendo silly (if I could slap a metaphorical representation of a multi-billion-dollar coproration) because a hard drive is simply the only way to go, unless support for USB pen drives is in. Which is also pointless and a hard drive would still be a better idea. Seriously, Nintendo: it’s worked for Microsoft and it’s worked for Sony; just give the Wii hard drive support already.

In the same set of interviews, Miyamoto was also spoken to and he claimed that there will be no more Wii peripherals. Why there were any extra ones to support a controller that was promoted as a ‘do all’ controller (fishing rod, sword, steering wheel, and so on…) still makes no sense to me. Anyway, with the Nunchuk, Classic Controller, Wii Wheel, Balance Board, Wii Zapper and Wii MotionPlus doing the rounds already, there can’t be much left to make into a controller.

To save Nintendo the effort, I’ve put together the second cut-out-and-keep guide of “controllers Nintendo could make to milk us more” so they don’t need to think of anything but rather slap it together in 90 days (which is how long it took to develop Brain Training, fact fans). You can find that below.

Oh, and one last joke: Reggie said that Animal Crossing isn’t a casual game, and that Greedo shot first. Unfortunately, the latter statement is closer to being true than the former ever will be.

I’m also sorry for making a Star Wars joke and I promise it’ll never happen again.

Wii storage solution coming - CNET

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