Soundwave on 30 August 2012
I'm disappointed in the crappy CPU, it's late 2012, there's no reason they shouldn't have been able to get a CPU that absolutely wipes the floor with the 360. 1-1.5 GB of RAM is skimping too, why not just go to 2GB? They're probably using dirt cheap RAM.
Oh well. I'm kinda resigned to the fact that the days of the SNES/N64/GCN are over, Nintendo these days is content with taking past generation console standards and slightly exceeding them 5-7 years later. That's the Wii way.
That said I'm sure Mario/Zelda/Donkey Kong/etc. will look swell and play great and they're still my favorite software maker.