my bad, my bad, i accidentally hit the enter button and I didnt realize it, was in a rush.  I dont want Ninty to go the WIi route, is what i was going to say. I mean Wii route in terms of releasing a system that hardware is already really outdated when it comes to the other consoles. But I dont want them to go insane with power either, so it wont be 599 expensive either. I think having something that is like the difference between PS2 and Xbox will be fine.

Are you talking about PS2 vs. GC or PS3? Because PS2 annihilated GC in both sales and profits

That's not what he's saying.  He's pointing out that Sony sold the PS2 at a much bigger loss per unit, despite the fact that the Gamecube was more powerful and sold for $100 less.

And Nintendo did match Sony's game-division profits for the PS2 era, despite the fact that the PS2 outsold the GameCube and Game Boy Advance combined.

I seem to recall most of what we knew about the Gamecube coming from sources other than Nintendo.  I suppose I could be wrong though.

Still, I don't remember Nintendo ever going into great detail on the hardware powering the DS, Wii, or 3DS.  We have some specifics from third parties like this, but only generalities from Nintendo.  I would expect that to continue.

I think Nintendo has been more focused on just showing off the games, than getting into the technical details.

Mentioning an anonymous dev. doesn't bring a lot of credibility... I think we should just wait for E3 to know the truth from Ninty itself. It would be stupid to make it less powerful, as Sony and Microsoft could simply keep PS3 and 360 running for more years with both the price and technological advantage.

Nintendo has already stated exactly what I just said.  They can support more tablets but simply don't want to put too much financial strain on consumers.   Don't forget how they are hyping up asynchronous multiplayer as well.

Actually, their memory is normal for a fish.  If they only had a 5 minute memory (much less a few seconds), they'd not recognize what those funny looking flakes you just dumped into their fishbowl are nor race to the top of the fishbowl waiting for you to dump them in.

Prior to the Wii, Nintendo released full detailed specs about their consoles and handhelds.  The WI was their first spec NDA'd console.

PS2 annhilated it in sales but not profit.  The GC was actually a highly profitable console for such low sales (thanks to a high profit margin per unit) while the PS2 was sold at a loss for quite a while resulting in lower lifetime profits than had they sold it for profit from day 1.  It was, however, more profitable in the end thanks to a longer life cycle...but it didn't annihilate the GC in profits by any means.

They be going cheap on us.

But nooooooooooo, they are still going to charge $50 for games!

Yeah, I forgot to add "or so they say" at the end :P, making my comment state false facts.

Viper, you said "Prior to the Wii, Nintendo released full detailed specs about their consoles and handhelds. The WI was their first spec NDA'd console."

Why do you suppose they took a different approach with the Wii?...so people wouldn´t keep speculating the power gap between the Wii and 360/PS3?