It is being reported that Nintendo is looking into a new storage solution for the Wii that will be "better than a hard drive".

Speculation is some sort of online storage capabilities. Though it will not cater to the Wii-owners who do not use or possess WiFi.

No word yet on how this may affect hacked and modded Wiis either- mostly speculation at this point, but according to Reggie Fils-Aime, a Nintendo Executive, something is on the way.

There were plenty of announcements missing from the Nintendo 2008 E3 press conference this summer, but perhaps most surprising was the fact that the company did not address the ever-growing storage problem plaguing the Wii.

Since WiiWare hit the console earlier this year, the factory-installed 512MB of internal storage just isn't cutting it. Nintendo is essentially shooting itself in the foot: here we have all these new games to download and play, but only the capacity to store a limited number of them.

Kotaku is now reporting that the company does indeed have a storage solution on the way, but it won't come in the form a physical hard drive. Nintendo executive Reggie Fils-Aime tells Club Nintendo magazine that we'll see something even better than a hard drive for the Wii.

Deathsythe via news.cnet.com »