Iwata: Our next system will “absorb the Wii U architecture adequately”

[Train wreck]

padib said:

Train wreck said:
Don't see how anyone can be confident in buying a Wii U, when Nintendo is already looking forward so early. Customers may have given them the benefit of the doubt before but they are entering late 90s SEGA level marketing now.

People who want to play their games now will buy the U now. The U will also be likely 100$ when the next system comes out at 300$.

There is no confusion here. It works for Apple, I see not why it wouldn't work for Nintendo.

The PS3 retails for 250$ for 500gb after 8 years, the Wii U at 100$ whenever this new product from Nintendo comes out means that Nintendo will have incurred more and more losses as a console that price, that early, is firesale material.

No confusion?  Ill take Iwata word over yours in terms of confusion on Nintendo recent product line.

Apple (and google) are in another league when it comes to the services they offer to their respective customers.  Their consistanty and slowly adding more products/services have helped them thrieve, even when they make missteps (google with their Motorola purchase, apple with their hiccups) they go unscathed.  Nintendo has been very inconsistant and that costs them in profits and userbase.