You know that neat little wireless nunchuk that Nyko has out? Well better snap them up cause they might be gone soon due to Nintendo suing Nyko over what they say are patent and trademark infringements. I think Nintendo`s upset because they probably had one in the works and someone else beat them to it. I`ve seen many controllers out there from third parties that are closely designed like the first party devices on various systems so Nyko stealing a little of Nintendo`s thunder might have caused this action.

Thanks Kotaku.

As far as I'm concerned this is Nintendo's M.O. I wasn't shocked when I saw them do this, and anybody that has studied Nintendo's history will know exactly what I'm talking about. It wasn't that long ago that Nintendo had a bad reputation for suing just about everybody. They were suing non-licensed third-party companies (Tengen, etc.), they sued rental stores (over renting games), they sued retailers, they sued just about everybody they could think of. Year after year Electronic Gaming Monthly would give out their "Most Lawsuits" award to Nintendo. To be fair, Nintendo has calmed down a lot when it comes to taking legal action, but this is a company with a long history of suing people over petty concerns.

See, this is the dark side of Nintendo that the fanboys don't like to mention. When some people (read: the "guests" that argued over Chuck's recent open letter to Nintendo) bring up Nintendo it's always the good things, how they saved the industry, can do no wrong and help dying kids. They never bring up the lawsuits, history of screwing over third party companies and unfair pricing practices. If these things are brought up those fanboys tend to just ignored that they ever happened. They'll point to bad things that Sony and Microsoft do, but when it comes to their favorite company everything is golden.

But like a lot of major companies, Nintendo has a sketchy history ... especially when it comes to treating companies (be it retailers, renters, or third-parties) fairly. Heck, when was the last time you heard that Nintendo actually LOST a lawsuit that alleged price fixing and was forced by the courts to refund money to the customers? Never. Yet, I still hear people talk about how you couldn't make 2D games for the PS1 (myth). I'm not saying we need to make these issues front-page features, but we shouldn't completely forget that they happened. Nintendo has just as many skeletons in their closet as any major company.

Sean is 100% right. One thing I do want to comment on is this WiiWare thing. I too want to see this thing take off, that way we'll see a lot more small projects (mostly by indie developers) get their games on the Wii for fairly cheap. However, I do feel that the small storage space in the Wii is a hindrance to the overall success. And the Nintendo EU quote about how only "geeks and otaku" want more storage space isn't helping any. It's not so much the quote (I can get over being called a geek), but does he honestly believe that there are very few people who want more storage? Apparently the mainstream isn't going to download more than one or two of those WiiWare games, because that's about as much as you're going to fit on that tiny little flash hard drive. If anything is going to hurt Nintendo in the long run, it's not being ready for our digital distribution future.

The guys on IGN's Nintendo podcast have been complaining out this for weeks. I typically don't take them seriously but in this case they're right...the term "cleaning out the fridge" has been applied to deleting everything on your Wii to fit a couple measly WiiWare games on there. Nintendo needs to realize that this is costing them money--I, and many other gamers, would buy a lot more VC and WiiWare games if only we had the space for them.

It's an unnecessary hassle to have to delete things, re-download them or copy them back from a flash card. All Nintendo has to do is market an 8GB flash drive (with their strangle-hold DRM coded into it, of course) and the Wii's space issues will disappear. They could sell something like that for about $50, although they'd probably jack the price up per usual (the little SD cards with "Wii" printed on them were 3 times as expensive as generic ones).

A USB hard drive would be even better, but this is Nintendo we're talking about here--two steps forward, eight steps back. Opening up the functionality of the Wii's SD slot would work well too, but Nintendo is so damn paranoid about software piracy that they'll never do that. I keep hearing rumors that Nintendo will stop being arrogant on this issue and announce a storage solution at E3, but that "geeks and otaku" comment kinda douses my hope for that. I mean come on, even Miyamoto said the only thing he wished the Wii had was more storage. When the father of modern gaming in your employ complains about it, you freaking admit it's a problem and do something about it.