I keep saying it, and people keep ignoring it: this is just a repeat of the last 20 years, in a slightly modified form. You can get a pretty good approximate idea of what Nintendo's up to if you subtract 20 from the current year and look at what they did that year, or possibly the year before/after that; cycles aren't perfectly aligned at the 10/20/40/80-year marks, after all.
2008 is roughly equivalent to 1987, as it so happens: most of the focus has been on getting new customers into the game. 1988 was the year when Nintendo started expanding the interests of the NES audience in earnest beyond just Mario and Zelda. Odds are pretty good that 2009 will be the year that they expand the interests of the Wii audience in earnest beyond Wii Sports and Wii Fit.
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