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Well, since you're hoping for solid responses, here goes, though it will be a long response:

-"Wii’s unmatched explosiveness by focusing on a new way to play" -->  Nintendo focused on a SIMPLER way to play, and so EASIER, not just NEW way to play.

-" with a far inferior base technology (in raw crunching terms), demonstrated you do not need to be cutting-edge to be successful and an industry leader"  -->  The wii was cutting edge, just not along the traditionnal path of CPU/GPU/etc.. that we've always seen. Putting those acceloremetres at that size really increased the price of the controllers, 50 or 55£ for a "full" controller, instead of just 20-30£? possibly before.

-"Nintendo simply gave 3rd parties no reason to spend the costs to produce a lower quality product. 3rd parties knew they had just as much probability to make the same profits on the PS360/PC version of a game as an exclusive Wii version." --> You seem to assume that better technology means better games. That's just wrong. Also, the Wii sold to people with a very different mindset to how a game should be. Even if it was as powerfull as PS360, the wii version of a direct port would probably sell MUCH less than it's counterparts.

-"The standard controller will move back to the more standard controller. It will adopt the classic controller pro overall form factor; very similar to the dual shock Sony controller." --> Really, the shape doesn't matter too much, as long as it doesn't have too many buttons.

-"Finally, Nintendo gains an ability that was lacking in the Wii/DS era; true compatibility between the devices." --> This really is unimportant, there was only ever 2 games on the Gamecube which did this, and they weren't that popular, so why bother?

-"They will strive for something that exceeds PS360, yet will be priced $350-400 with a small profit" --> Why price it so high? That doesn't make sense at all, the price shouldn't exceed 300$ and still, 250$ should be a maximum.

-The whole idea of Nintendo teaming upo with Google to run Android apps on their home console is really far fetched: why would I use PHONE apps on a HOME CONSOLE? It seems like a useless thing to do.

To finish off, it seems that you want Nintendo's next console to be more like the PS3/360. Fair enough, if you want it, that's fine, but from a business side, that would be terrible: high prices, dumbed down PC games, a focus on non gaming things on a games console, and direct competition with Sony and Microsoft, they would lose badly, I mean, just look at what happened with the Gamecube. The best thing they can do is follow the Blue ocean AND Disruption startegies that gave them success with the DS and especially the Wii.