This generation of gaming has been a tumultuous one for me thus far. Before the true unveiling I found myself desiring the super powered behemoth called the Playstation 3. My total abhorrence of Microsoft did indeed have much to do with that desire, and the unpopularity of the GameCube made it easy for a twenty year fanboy to stray away from perennial favorite Nintendo.

However, upon the monumental release of the electronics juggernauts' new consoles I was greatly disappointed. The entire Playstation 3 project turned out to be a Fable press-conference gone wrong - complete with unfulfilled promises and shallow technological threats (ie. the SIXAXIS controller). The last several months have found restored glory to the Playstation flagship, with the exception of backwards compatability, and has recently made good on several promises of its originally indicated prowess.

But in the meantime, the Wii just kind of sits there. It isn't a great system, and any fool can tell of the systems lack power (though it is not as great of a lack as its competitor fanboys would have you believe). Whereas the motion sensitive SiXAXIS seemed like an afterthought to SONY, the whole idea of expandable content seemed like a non-thought to Nintendo. Even with over 300 available DLC titles to choose from, as Microsoft and SONY make a killing with gamers by selling expandable content - as gamers demand this kind of replay-ability from their software...Nintendo has made no announcement of a USB HDD to expand its content playability, accessibility and even enjoyment.

Why?

Rather - why not?

My internal memory on my Wii is nigh full. I can only upgrade this storage with a standard SD memory card which has a max storage of 4GB (apparently the high speed SD cards are unsupported by the Wii's hardware) I hope to attain a Rockband 2 library as soon as the music store opens up. I hope that I can download some more old-school games for the sake of enjoyment and nostalgia...but I cannot.

Imagine you as a wii owner, possessing a great collection of games and an "x"GB HDD. Now you can download all the Virtual Console Games you want. Now there's a team creating new MarioKart tracks for multiplayer fun. New monsters and upgrades fro games like Pokemon. New golf courses for Tiger Woods, new dungeons for Legend of Zelda, etc.

And then, Wii gamers could reap all the gaming benefits and progressive content that gamers who own XBOX 360 or PS3 enjoy and demand. Then it wouldn't matter if the Wii is not as realistic looking or graphically intense. Because when all is said and done, we play games because of their playability. We buy them because we want to own them, and get our money's worth out of them. C'mon Nintendo, help gamers to embrace the Wii and all of its possibilities. We really do want to.