Article by: Wii60FTW

Those who make use of Nintendo's wonderful Virtual Console and WiiWare services are aware of the greatest challenge that Nintendo faces today: Storage Space. The Wii's paltry 512MB disappears rather quickly under the weight of all the great gaming options available from these services.

Not to ignore the issue, Laurent Fischer - Nintendo's European Managing Director of Marketing - told EDGE magazine back in June that only "geeks and otaku" had a storage problem. This was quickly followed up by an apology for what was apparently supposed to be a self-referencing joke about Mr. Fischer himself. 

Now in an interview with MTV, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime takes another crack at the same issue:

"From an Americas-centric perspective, here is the reality we see. We have a consumer base who loves virtual console. We have a userbase 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."

As of yet, no details have been released on what the solution will be other than a statement that it will not be an external hard drive.