Last Thursday WiiWii.tv posted a story about the Wii and confirmation that handheld games will be available for the Wii. Many of the posts made by this blog are perhaps less than gushing about Nintendo’s or the Wii game systems ability to deliver exactly what the faithful actually want. There’s truth in that to be sure, but I personally like the Wii. It has a kind of unpretentious quality – a kind of honesty that’s often lacking elsewhere.

One by one those most wanted Nintendo features that make everybody’s wish list pop into reality. The latest one: a confirmation by Nintendo of America’s President Reggie Fils-Aime via an article in the New York Times that, alongside demos, the Wii will be able to download full handheld games that can then be transferred to play on DS. Tick that one off your list. Can’t be too long now until that hard disk announcement, huh?

Yes, a hard disk would be a good thing, and maybe it will happen. Who knows? Meanwhile, the Wii represents a great leap forward in gaming. Yes, I do mean that. All that zapping and blasting everything… It gets tiring. The current state of the Wii is not the final advancement of what it can be. I believe this platform is destined for greatness. Yep, I mean it!

No word there as to whether that means old Game Boy games or newer DS titles. One thing we’d surmise is that this also means the imminent release of an official data storage card for the DS, much like the much praised (though probably least by Nintendo) R4 flash cart.

An official data storage card would indeed be an excellent addition to what is already an excellent product. That’s the great thing about excellent products – adding things only makes them better!

There’s also nothing on a release date, though we’d hope sooner rather than later. We wouldn’t mind revisiting a few GB classics, particularly Zelda: Link’s Awakening, which must be a shoo-in for first release. Not to mention the classic GB Tetris, one of the most perfect puzzle games ever made.

Ah, the classics. I remember the days when… No, I won’t. Memory lane is sometimes best left closed. But I agree that a few GB classics revisited would be fun. And who can argue with the remark about Tetris. It is perfect. Just like Rubik’s Cube – the actual cube, not a game – Tetris is perfect in every way. It has simplicity and complexity all at the same time. Perfect!