News: Wii Storage Solution Urgent, Says Reggie

Posted by Tom "Tphi" Phillips - Jul 25th 2008 16:07

Reggie Fils-Aime has stated that the Wii's memory problem is now "mainstream", and being worked upon as a matter of urgency.

Nintendo of America's President Reggie Fils-Aime has acknowledged that the company is now working on a solution to the storage issues many Wii users are experiencing when trying to save large numbers of downloadable WiiWare or Virtual Console titles.

"We have a consumer base who loves Virtual Console. We have a user-base who really is enjoying WiiWare content. So for us really our challenge really is how do we satisfy all these consumers who are loving all of the product we make available on a download basis?

"As we continue to have things, as you point out, like ‘Mario Kart’ that has its own channel when you’re playing from an internet perspective, we’re just making this challenge tougher and tougher. So in our view this is becoming much more of a mainstream problem, which is why we have a sense of urgency to solve it."

It is good to see that Nintendo is finally taking this issue seriously, as many find their 512MB of internal space rapidly running out. A problem for "geeks and otakus" no longer, it seems. (Yep, we had to get that quote in here somewhere).

Source: MTV

Comments

IceLightning Says:

July 25th, 2008 at 11:20 || Total Comments: 46

Finally they're going to be doing something about it. Except I can't afford it as I just bought a 360...

Azmol01 Says:

July 25th, 2008 at 12:42 || Total Comments: 634

So basically the moment the Wii Sports loving invalids complain about storage capacity, Nintendo acknowledge the problem? While all the cries of despair from all those poor geeks and otakus go unheard of for nearly two years.

You know something, I'm beginning to suspect that Nintendo no longer care for their core audience anymore. :D

Ghost_zero Says:

July 25th, 2008 at 15:01 || Total Comments: 75

Suddenly it is important :)
I could have told them so sooner.
It was already clear a bit before the WiiWare start...

Bone Says:

July 25th, 2008 at 15:16 || Total Comments: 31

Lol some of you are never happy, I cant wait for it, re downloading a stack of goodies

M-PG71C Says:

July 25th, 2008 at 17:49 || Total Comments: 52

Sounds good, however talk is cheap. I want solutions and here's hoping they are provided sooner than later.

Tofu Says:

July 25th, 2008 at 19:02 || Total Comments: 2

Hmm,
Hope they don't just plan to sell new Wiis with more internal storage in them. Possibly the worse case senario that one.

Most likely they will create some USB add on to expand the memory. Not holding my breath on a Hard Drive.

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