Nintendo is not going to copy the other guys. They did that last time, and that was their lowest selling home console.
Nintendo is also trying to make the online more social than impersonal (what the "friends" in "friends code" means). We don't have to agree with it, but Nintendo is not going to make an XBL or PSN clone.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs








