Nintendo is in some hot water over comments made Nintendo of Europe marketing boss Laurent Fischer. Fischer said that only “geeks and otaku” want a hard drive for the Wii. Come the hell on.

After the insane amount of backlash from the internet, Fischer has issued an apology. Good move.

“I have huge respect for those who, like me, share a common passion for Nintendo and want to make it clear that I would never use and I didn’t use this terminology in such a context or way to cause offence,” he said.

“I regret that this misunderstanding has created such offence and disappointment within the community.”

Either way, a comment like this from someone so high up at Nintendo shows me that they really don’t care about expanding the storage on the Wii. Too bad, because they’re losing sales from people like me who are already out of memory.