I disagree with this completely.
The hardware on the next Xbox at least will be a big step up and developers don't have to use that power right away. It can be a slow burn. Yes, this generation is going to be near 10 years and that is a good thing for the reasons you listed, but I feel Nintendo is the one that is in trouble here.
In a few years we will have DirectX 12 hardware and it will be much cheaper over time and by the time the next generation games come out we will have easier methods to automate console driven geometry. Console makers can come out with a console for $250 - $300 easily at launch that will have that power built in along with 802.11 n wireless and gigabytes of ram with a bluray drive.
The problem with the Super Wii? Will it have something that is so different by then that people will want to buy, if not it is screwed. Because that is the real issue isn't it?
Video games just like computers have 3 cycles when playing a video game:
1) Input (gamepad, keyboard, motion control)
2) Processing (processing of A.I. , Physics, and gameplay)
3) Output (graphics, HDTV, SDTV)
What is left for Nintendo to do that is not too expensive or has not already been done?
A) Kinect type of stuff (Input)? Super Wii is not going to do Kinect (Nintendo usually does
not do what others are doing)
B) Projector (output) for a built in display that they can manipulate at will (too expensive)
C) Mind control using a wireless device (Input) - Possible, but does it offer the same control and flexibility as Kinect?
D) 3D (output) is going to be available for the other two as well and unlike the 3DS, you cannot control the output
here because you don't have a built in screen.
Nintendo has done a lot in the Wii generation already. Wii fit with the balance boards, Motion , vitality sensor and you have the others with Kinect and 3D for the home using glasses and eventually without them so I don't see where Nintendo can really go. Sure it can make Super wii backwards compatible with the regular Wii, but now what? How are you going to make lightning strike twice?
