Harm, Nobody actually knew it was 'next gen' at the time, whatever that means. Nintendo is right that if you don't have HD tvs whats the point. Secondly they didn't iron out, or even give a flying batshit, about the bugs that have unanimously labelled, according to me, Xbox360 the laughing stock of quality videogame manufacturing.
“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.
