Industry to Nintendo, "We finally got you."

[Gojimaster]

A few points:

1.  I have seen no evidence that 3DS games are getting delayed to become NGP games. There weren't many multiplatform games between DS and NGP, so I would need to see some more examples to believe you.

2.  NGP games are going to be even more expensive to develop and sell than 3DS games so I don't see developers running off to NGP as their savior, especially given how poorly the PSP performed in the West.

3.  Why is everyone assuming that the Wii 2 is going to get left in the dust by the next-gen Playstation and Xbox consoles?  We don't even know the details yet.  The final details on the 3DS didn't even materialize until a month or so before the 3DS release.  So how exactly does everyone think they know what is in the Wii 2?

One thing I can say with fair certainty is that Nintendo has put a lot of thought in to how to stay into the race if a Playstation releases a couple years later and is more powerful.  The next-gen Wii will be powerful enough that it can receive serviceable ports of all the next-gen games.  It might not have the best pixel-count, but the display will look far enough beyond this HD gen that gamers won't care as much.  We have already hit the point of diminishing returns for graphics.  Even if Playstation and Xbox put out better hardware, only a few developers will be able to afford to take advantage of it.  Developers simply won't be able to recoup the development costs on all their games--- and they are already having enough trouble staying in budget in this generation. It won't be that hard for developers to port a downgraded version of a game-- it will kind like how PC games can be scaled on computers with different hardware.  The developers will be able to scale down ports between the different consoles much more easily now that they will all be in 1080P.   As long as Nintendo leaves enough under the hood and has a easily system to develop for then it shouldn't be a problem for them to get ports from the next-gen systems.