If graphics really mattered why do console game sales consistently beat PC game sales?
Inb4 piracy.
As far as i can see, Nintendo has taught itself valuable lessons in terms of controls (wiimotes and ipad/phone) and consumer expectations (priority of high definition screens, 3D in TV's, internet access, multimedia popularity), in order to offer the consumer a cheap innovative method to play games (and IF they want use other services, but in no way is this a priority for system resources).
If you genuinely believe that today, in our current economic climate, the cheaper console won't ultimately win out in the gen.8 race, you're seriously mistaken. Past generations clearly have taught you nothing.
As for that gaf thread, I agree with the sentiment that Nintendo still have 6 months to switch whatever graphics card they want in the machine and, as mentioned above, as long as this is a game machine first, and everything else second, it will easily be enough to keep consumers interested for a few years.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
