Nintendo: we’re working on solution to “obvious” storage problem

By Stephen Munn | June 19, 2008

Nintendo of Europe’s Laurent Fischer faced some backlash with his “geeks and otaku” statement recently, in which he seemed to deride the Nintendo console owners who are dissatisfied with the system’s built-in storage limitation in much the way Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata claimed only a “small number” of us were bothered by the issue. Since then Fischer’s come out to say he didn’t mean it the way it came out in the press, but rather he was joking, meaning to say something like, it’s an issue that gaming geeks like me are troubled by.

Whatever, it doesn’t really matter. The important thing is what he’s said now, which is that Nintendo is resolving the “obvious” issue, and will not do so by offering some kind of hardware solution. Well, the only software solution I can imagine is to unlock that SD Card slot, allowing us to execute our downloaded games from that removable storage. That would mean a single firmware update would fix everything.

“We definitely detect that they [gamers] are serious and we know there is an issue in this, so it’s something that we’re working on,” he told GamesIndustry.biz. But Fischer poured cold water on rumours – stemming from recent hints dropped by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata – that the company was planning an external solution.

“Definitely there’s no plan to issue hardware, an external hard drive, but we know that we have an issue in that area,” he added. “It’s very obvious and we’re perfectly aware of it, but there’s nothing we can say beyond this.”

I’ll watch for that light. Many of my virtual console games are in cold storage, yet sitting on an SD Card in that slot right now. How stupid this all is.

Source: GamesIndustry via The Wiire.