I think this demonstrates that a lot of people don't understand Nintendo's strategy about releasing information about games ...
There are two important things to consider:
- Nintendo is trying not to release information about a game years before they release it, probably because they think it hurts game sales.
- Nintendo is very careful about targeting their message to the audience they have.
When you consider how quickly information becomes wide spread and obsolete in the internet era, along with how anticipation of an upcomming game can prevent people from buying a game that is already on the market, point 1 should be fairly easy to understand (whether you like it or not).
Point #2 is probably more important to this discussion, and Nintendo seemed to be very careful to talk to Game Developers at the Game Developers Conference ... While countless companies will demonstrate impressive videos of games/demos to show off their great middleware or a new graphical technique, Nintendo seemed very focused on showing off how to make games that are of a more reliable (higher) quality at a more reliable (lower) cost.
With that said, Nintendo will release the Wii MotionPlus and give it (at least) 12 months before they would ever consider hinting about a new console ... If Wii MotionPlus is as successful as I suspect it will be, I wouldn't expect an announcement of a WiiHD until E3 2011
