at least nintendo is listening to their buyers and sony just waits till something popular comes along and attaches it to a high costing old tech and pushes it to oblivion.

When I bought the Gamecube, I remember wishing it was a N64.

Squilliam back? naw he's just peeking his head in the door.

makes perfect sense to me. The N64 is what Nintendo wanted to make when they made the SNES, or they wouldn't have messed with all those SuperFX chips and mode7 graphics.

Also, Sega have finally been able to fulfill their decades-long dream when it comes to hardware design by releasing the "Toylet" platform in Japan! - We should all remember this as the day when wacky peripherals reached their prime!

You're joking, right?  We did indeed have "Wii visuals" back in 2000/01... it was called the PS2/Xbox/GC.

With the exception of a handful of 1st party titles like Prime 3 / Other M and the Mario Galaxy games, plus maybe one or two 3rd party efforts, about 99% of Wii's library looks no better than the games from last generation, and some look like they were from the N64/PSX generation.

I don't wish I had Wii U over Wii.. I STILL don't want a Wii U.

The Wii is substantially more powerful than the consoles in the previous gen. Just because developers didn't make use of that power, doesn't mean it isn't there.

my take on nintendo consoles.....

N64.....lack of 3rd party support, which nintendo promise more with Gamecube

Gamecube........more lack of 3rd party support, promises more with Wii

Wii......................even more lack of 3rd party support, promises with WII-U

Wii-U.........................all points to similiar outcome

Havent bought a nintendo console since N64 by the way

Nobody wanted the Gamecube ever.

That makes sense, but I don't think you've figured out any thing, nor does what you said only apply to Nintendo consoles. The same could be said with any console that has design problems. If a console has any obvious issues in it's design, then of course the manufacture will try to fix said issues in the next iteration.

Take the PS3 for example. One of it's design issues is it's difficulty to develop for. You can bet your ass that the PS4 will be easier to develop for. In fact, Sony has already stated that future Playstation products will be easier to develop for.

Take the PSP. It has one analogue stick. Look at the PSV, two analogue sticks.

The XBOX had problems too. The obvious one was lack of 3rd party support. MS acknowledged this as an important problem and guess what? They released early in the generation and bombarded 3rd parties. The consoles first few years were loaded with 3rd party exclusives.

You won't find many consoles having the same design flaws as their predecessars.