The latest out of GDC is from none other than Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, who has no need for humility as he announces that the Wii is the fastest-selling game console in history, having officially shipped 50 million consoles worldwide.

But who cares about that. Old news. Moving on. You'll care more about the new Zelda game that was announced, as well as the firmware update that they issued as an answer to the Wii storage problem.

The new Zelda game is coming to the Nintendo DS later this year, and is titled The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Reports say that its visual style is similar to The Phantom Hourglass. A trailer was shown during the event but we don't have an embeddable version out yet... so just use your imaginations?

As for the Wii storage solution, Nintendo will be issuing Wii Menu 4.0, which will feature the SD Card Menu. This will lift the 2 GB mem card cap and will allow higher capacity cards. Games can be downloaded and launched straight from the SD card without going through the Wii System Memory. The update will be available today. Finally, eh?

That's it. Toodles.

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*UPDATE* Whoops, that's not it. Nintendo has just released the official debut trailer of The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. And it looks like they meant "tracks" literally. Gameplay will include trains. Yes, trains. Yes, that's what I said. Just watch it why don't you.

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