superchunk on 30 April 2012
Premise is totally wrong but article is right. Nintendo originally planned on just adding wiimote to Gamecube. However, when 360 was announced they instead made a new machine to go with the controller, which is why Wii was so underpowered. Additionally, in retrospect when Wii dominating the sales and marketshare, his statement is still right as consumers were ok with not having cutting edge technology.
