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).