You can almost hear those folks over at Nintendo Headquarters whispering to each other nervously,

"If we all act like there is no problem, maybe it will just go away."

The truth is we all knew it was asking a little too much to expect Wii Menu 3.3 to fix the storage issues with our beloved Wii consoles, but it would have been nice. Instead, the big N in all their wisdom decided to mask their latest slap to the homebrew community under the transparent veil of "Mii Transporting?".

So sad to see that Nintendo places a much higher value on solving their own personal problems over the very real problem that hundreds of thousands of Wii gamers face everyday. We all know how Nintendo feels about video game piracy and having their systems hacked. But come on, lets face facts, the hand-full of Wii Homebrew Channel users out there pales by far to the number of Wii owners who can no longer pay for and download new VC and WiiWare games.

I'm the first to admit that I'm certainly no financial genius but it doesn't make sense to me for Nintendo to continue to ignore the fact that so many customers, who are desperate to send their gaming dollars on the Shop Channel, can't because of storage restraints. It's not the ultimate solution that we all really want (a.k.a. a hard drive) but at the very least a firmware update that allows games to be played from the SD card would have shown us that Nintendo cares about our problem.

The hopes of a hard drive from Nintendo seem all but dashed completely with the latest news from Nintendo's Laurent Fischer (click here) and we now know that Wii Menu 3.3 won't fix the storage problem. So let's corporately continue to hold our breathe hoping that Nintendo will remember us, their bread and butter, at E3 this July. "Come on, give us a little something. USB storage anyone?"