Nintendo's biggest obstacle heading into next generation

[Gnac]

I would say that the biggest obstacle would be all these "tweenies" (and the publishers who encourage them) who have been nurtured to treat console gaming as an extension of PC gaming. The undesirable side-effects of this have manifested in such gambits:

• Obsession over the specs of surface-mount components such as Processors and RAM - something which should ONLY matter in cases where the end-user has a choice to replace said components, so for now you are limited to all such as "DUDE I SENT MY CONSOLE FOR REPAIRS AND GOT A BITCHIN NEW BLUETOOTH CARD"
• Obsession over cutting-edge tech - something which should ONLY matter in cases where the end-user can replace out-of-date components. If you choose console gaming, you do not have this luxury. You must stay the the course until the next generation and stop expecting the moon on a stick.
• Computer and console gamers used to be at war throughout the 80's, but the golden age of gaming made everyone forget and a sort of truce happened. Now we're in the position where consoles have impinged on PCs, and this has seemingly caused a vast community to lash out at console gamers again.
• PEOPLE DO NOT LEARN