Wii still has no real storage expansion

E3 was something of a flop for a lot of gamers this year, which may be a testament to how little weight it carries now with the smaller design, but more importantly, Nintendo has, yet again, now given Wii owners a feasible storage alternative.
For almost two years now Wii owners have been crying out in wanting of a way to store all their Virtual Console and now Wii Ware games without having to fumble with constantly transferring files back and forth between SD cards and the internal memory.
Given that the Wii currently has only 512 MB of space - roughly 1/40 the space on the smallest model of Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 - i believe it is justified for gamers to want more.
Yes, games you download can be re-downloaded for free an unlimited number of time. Yes, you can back them up on an SD card. The point is we shouldn't have to re-download something again and again and why is it we can't simply boot a game straight off our SD cards? Isn't this something that could be fixed with a simple firmware update?
frankly, I would be happy just to be able to boot off an SD card. having an extra 2GB would still be better. But this subject has been done to death.
Ign.com asked about it at E3.
"There isn't anything that we can announce today, but we have been thinking along a variety of different lines regarding this matter for some time now," said Shigeru Miyamoto told ign.com, "So my hope is that sometime in the not too distant future we will be able to discuss some concrete solutions."
What is beyond me is that it seems like an open-and-shut case. give us a USB Hard drive. Let us boot off an SD card.
piracy is likely one of the reasons Nintendo is being so cautious with the Wii already prone to being hacked by mod chips and the DS losing software sales due to flashcard devices. However they can not ignore the obvious storage problem. They already solved the online chat issue with the Wii Speak public mic device, lets hope we get an answer about this as well, sooner rather than later.