Why doesn't Nintendo redesign their home consoles?

[Jon-Erich]

While they did redesign the NES and SNES, those redesigns weren't highly publicized and were done towards the end of the life of those consoles. The redesigns weren't even on the market for that long, that being said, I think the reasons Nintendo never did the redesigns is because they never had to. Nintendo 64 and GameCube weren't around long enough to warrant a redesign and the Wii was so well designed from the beginning. Although, one could argue that the Wii did get a bigger redesign than N64 and GameCube (with the removal of GameCube support and accessory support).