OP - You're entire premiss is flimsy, but since core gamers are immature children, it is quite ironic that they are apparently acting up as much as you perceive.
Regardless, you're ignoring the most important factor in that Blesinksi interview (possibly due to your intentions for race baiting Nintendo fans, i dk), the entire industry is in decline/revolution right now.
ANYONE releasing a super powerful device in this market is either doomed to failure, or facing a steep uphill battle. This is exactly why this happened last week - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=155703&page=1#, and also why the 3DS has received more support, developer wise and customer wise, in Japan.
“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.
