Yes, but we get back to what Nintendo percieved as market friendly at the time, they didn't see $300 or $350 as an acceptable price (and after seeing the slow start of the 3DS, its very likely they will be hesitant to make the next home console too expensive), so for them to pack in a lot of power and risk exceeding that market price was not something they wanted then, and will likely not be something they want in the future.

Sure the pack in game was negligible cost, but as we saw in Japan, they decided to sell it seperately, indicting, they valued it at $50 in the US bundle

Right. They figured they were able to sink the Wii with their malicious libel, they could derail Nintendo completely with a nice console that'll put them in the corner, in the normal console world, and nice and out of the way.

Citation needed.

Is this thread too fanboyish to be believable?

Wii 2 going with Blu-ray does sound incredibly stupid.

I mean, Nintendo ALWAYS ends up making their own proprietary format for games because they don't want to pay royalties on it.  They usually buy a failed disc or something similar.

The rest i could see.

when have they used a failed disc, ever? 

GCN used a mini DVD bassed disc and Wii used a DVD bassed disc and before that they used carts, a Blu-ray bassed disc format doesn't seem unlikely at all. No one as far as I know has said it would play Blu-ray movies so they are not going to be paying sony anything by using their own formating on a disc that uses the same manufacturing process and a disc drive that uses a Blu diode nether of which Sony owns a stake in as far as I know and it would fit into their past trend of using the current disc tech (to lower costs) with their own format so as to avoid licensing costs...

I thought they bought the GCN mini DVD tech off someone.  While the Wii DVD disc was in fact the GCN technology put on a disc.

People have been saying 'Blu Ray', not 'a Blu Ray based disc format'. People ARE saying that the Wii2 will be capable of playing Blu Ray movies, and that Nintendo will be forced to pay royalties, some fraction of which will go to Sony. You are correct that the latter is quite plausible (I personally think a HD-DVD format is also quite likely). 

For your first point, even the rumors are trying to confirm the next Nintendo system would still have motion support.  Just with a more traditional controller.

For your second point, Nintendo is going to have to go with Blu-Ray or a whole new format (like the GC) next gen.  Third Parties will ignore them if all their games are just 4.7 gigs or less.

For your third point, most reports put the next Nintendo system at 'close to or a little more powerful than XBOX360'.  So basically...a PS3.  Though I highly doubt it would have the same design.

Also, for your overall point, you may not believe this, but last gen the 'fanboyism' was even worse.

Although I don't see them using blu-ray, and those controllers  are a bit unbelievable, I don't see why the rest can't be true.