Will Microsoft target Nintendo in the next generation?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Wii hasn't standard disk storage and has too little RAM for a lot of memory consuming PC tasks (for example multimedia and image manipulation, not simple showing and playying of them), so it can't fully replace a PC. Nintendo could, if it see it fit, make the next Wii2 a cheap and simple PC replacement, in 4-5 years a mid sized HDD should cost a fraction of the current price. But once expanded its already big user base, Nintendo could even find some way, some HW+SW add-on to change the Wii into a limited feature entertainment centre, focusing only on typical living room tasks, without trying the broader approach MS would like to try. And it would be a threat to MS anyway, as typical living room tasks are what most of the target users are almost exclusively interested in, a cheap Nintendo (but also Sony, had it succeeded) entertainment centre would force MS to rethink from scratch its much more costly approach, with a mid-range PC with Windows, more expensive than a console, to work as server, workstation for people liking more complex activities, and central coordinator of all other devices. Whichever manufacturer tries to make a console THE centre, deprives MS of its divine right to put there a Windows license. If Nintendo has such plans for Wii, for MS it's already too late.