Personally I agree with Nintendo many of their games will not benefit massively from HD or photo realism. How much better can you make Animal Crossing for example? Their really isn't as much of a drive for big budget visuals. Yes most of Nintendo's franchises will benefit but not all of them. If it boiled down to Nintendo making the game four hours longer or having it rendered in beautiful 1080p I would likely prefer the extra few hours.
Nintendo has always been about the gameplay and have got a long fine without state of the art visuals in the past. Did crisp state of the art graphics help GameGear? 3DO ? Saturn? Ya Nintendo has had power behind it tons of times too but they make games so great you don't need cutting edge visuals.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
