Nintendo Going to use USB For Flash Drives?

First here's the news about the USB job.

A job listing on Nintendo's website reveals that the company is currently working on peripherals for Wii that use the system's USB ports. Could this mean it is readying an external storage solution for the console?

GamePro reports that the company is seeking a software/hardware tester to work on a "test plan for Wii's USB devices."

I'm sure Chris will chime in once he gets back from New York, but I think fans of the Virtual Console and WiiWare services are really hoping that this is a sign that Nintendo has an external hard drive in the works (which, quite frankly, should have been announced ages ago).

Source: Wired.com

Now here's the news on the "Storage Solution".

"We definitely detect that [gamers] are serious and we know there is an issue in this, so it's something that we're working on," he told GamesIndustry.biz.

"Definitely there's no plan to issue hardware - an external hard drive, but we know that we have an issue in that area. It's very obvious and we're perfectly aware of it, but there's nothing we can say beyond this."

They say NINTENDO WON'T ISSUE HARDWARE, meaning that maybe that 3rd parties will make the hardware, which is most likely a Flash Drive. If this happens we may get BETTER DLC from games and a SSBB channel(Nintendo still not do this).

They may also unlock SD cards to hold Channels and other things, like they did in SSBB with the created stages.