Nintendo and Me? Wii are Finished

I've had enough with Nintendo now. I've put up with a lot over the past few months, but they have finally pushed me too far.

They have already released statements that said (paraphrasing here) "nobody is interested in games that take a long time to complete" and "we're not interested in hardcore gamers".
Now for someone who has been a massive Nintendo fan since the NES days, who spent countless hours in Mario and Zelda games in previous generations, these statements hurt. My support over the past 15 years means nothing to them. They're simply ignoring all of the people who helped keep them where they are.

This generation has been a tough one. I've had to deal with the Wii having inferior hardware, and I did. I've had to deal with no decent 3rd-party games being made for the Wii, and I have. Neither of these were easy, but there was no choice. Nintendo have kept balancing it out by making fantastic titles like Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart and Smash Bros.

But today was the final straw.

All gamers have accepted that the Wii has practically no storage space. That means they are seriously limiting what Virtual Console titles you can buy, and now with WiiWare it's even worse. In response, Nintendo Europe's head dude, Laurent Fischer made a statement saying that (paraphrasing again) "only geeks want the issue addressed".

Sorry, what? Does that mean you don't want people's money any more? Because surely you can't expect people to keep deleting and re-downloading every single VC or WW game they pay for? People like to KEEP what they buy, you know. And that costs Nintendo bandwidth as well, so it's not even smart from a web business perspective.
Once you're out of Wii drive space, that's it. You CAN transfer stuff back and forward between SD cards and physical memory, but since that process takes ages it's not practical. And since you can't run anything from the SD cards, it makes them more like an archive than a storage medium.

So that's it, me and Nintendo are now officially done.
I cannot continue to support a company that seems to be so out of touch with the market. You can't move without falling over someone who is complaining about the Wii's lack of storage, yet they continue to ignore the issue. So this is officially the last Nintendo console I will buy until they change that attitude.