Smaller than an X360, no GC controller ports, no disc slot, no SD card slot, power on with no cord, no power or eject buttons.....nice try by someone in a plastics factory.

Because Nintendo considered exactly this sort of thing for the Wii, and decided that the Wii remote was superior. What exactly during this generation was there to change their mind? Face it, the only reason to believe such a rumour is because you hated what happened this generation and want to live in the PS2 days again.

while it is likely fake, GC controller ports seem unecesary considering that the controller aparently has enough buttons and sticks to be used for GC games, there is a disc slot it's pretty obvius on the bottom of the box, power button is on the left side of the front across from the lights. And even if this wasn't wiped up in a plstic factory I doubt it would be final design likely a dev kit tho it looks a bit to fancy for that as early dev kits are usally just the base hardware in a generic box. 

for example PS3 dev kit

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/ebay-watch-8500-sony-playstation-3-development-kit

Gamecube 

http://www.qj.net/qjnet/wii/wii-devkit-compared-to-the-dolphin-gamecube-devkit.html

Extreme lack of 3rd party support even after Wii had nearly 50% of the entire market.

Read my thread in my sig regarding Nintendo.

Contrasting with the high degree of third party support nintendo has been loving for generations, of course.

I got sigs disabled, link the thread here if you want me to read it

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=127423

NES and SNES were like Wii in that they dominated their generation, however, they also dominated 3rd party support as did PS1 and PS2. Wii is the first generational winner to be pretty much ignored by 3rd parties. What's the only differentiating factor in all of this? Wii was drastically different in controller, architecture, and raw power. 3rd parties simply didn't want to have dev teams only working on Wii while others worked on PS360. Costs associated with that simply were not financially viable for them. (this is me thinking like them, not how I would have wanted or thought they should)

That logic, if applied at the end of the N64 generation would have led one to advise Nintendo to not give the GC controller and control sticks.

Sony and MS will have Move plus and Kinect plus as their main control systems next gen, with about the same level for support of classic controllers as the Wii has. If Nintendo is the only one to return to a control scheme that will then be 2 generations old, that will lose them a lot of third party support.

Edit - From that other thread - Nintendo always change the control scheme? Just like they did with the SNES and GC? oh wait. But foruntaely, Nintendo have set up a pattern of dramatically chaning the control scheme every second generation. Too bad this aint one of those.

Also, I will cry if Nintendo goes the shitty, inbuild battery option, its as bad as the 360 using proprietry harddrive. Rechargable AAs ftw

You don't make any sense.

N64 lost 100% from being a backlash of 3rd party devs and carts vs disc.

GC moved to discs and altered the GC controller to be far more comfortable than N64's. They didn't care about full dual analog as even Sony's 2nd stick wasn't used too much in PS1 as shooters were not as big on consoles as they are today or at the time of that gen's launch.

MS/Sony won't drastically change their controllers. They'll offer what they have now. Standard in the box will be there dual analog setup and they will offer Kinect/Move as add-ons just as they have always done. Though Kinect might be upgraded for better/newer tech to maybe add more precision and potentially 4 players. Sony may copy this camera idea with an enhanced Sony EyeToy. But, they'll remain 2nd to their primary controllers.

While Nitnendo will focus on both in the same box and default games from them.

Umm, every gen Nintendo changes the controller.... SNES added shoulder buttons and doubled the face buttons, N64 added analog sticks and eventually rumble, GC gave a far better arrangement/comfort, built in rumble, and wireless, Wii added motion while still offering a more classic control option as pure add-on, while N6 will add touch and still keep motion as standard offering as well.

As for battery, they need to be like PS3. Built-in li-ion batters FTW!

CG? I honestly can`t tell it´s CG. Still, that console looks good!

But the SNES and GC updates to the ccontrollers were minor, akin to adding some extra buttons to the wiimote, or maybe improving the nunchuk. I'm really not convinced by this whole touchscreen thing, but obviously you are, so the only way to settle it is to wait for the unveiling.

As for batteries, I already have as many AA rechargeables as I want, and with my setup, it means I could play a 4 player game, 24 hours a day, and never have my batteries go flat (without having replacements on hand) or need to plug my controllers in, a feat that cannot be matched by a PS3 owner. Why would I want to pay extra for batteries that cannot do what my existing ones do?