He is right, imo.

Wii's main problem was not exactly power. It was resolution. Games look awful in modern TVs not because they're awful, but because they can't display the way they should. Since there won't be any improvement in TVs for the near or even long future, Wii U is fine. And if Wii and gamecube can look like this on Dolphin... imagine Wii U.

(gamecube, really impressive)

Like Spartacus says: "I would see words forged into action"

We´ll see.

Look at that. Nintendo is copying Sony again. This time, with 10 years plan.

Haha, nice.

On a serious note though, I deeply hope they don't. 10 year plans are an awful idea, nothing stays interesting for that long.

My personal feeling is third parties especially Western ones are a lost cause for Nintendo.

They should focus on smaller Western devs like Frozenbyte (Trine) by really making Nintendo Network a premiere choice for indie houses and building up more exclusive content through Japanese alliances. Get that Itagaki game, get Ninja Gaiden, work out more alliances with Square-Enix and so on.

Even if the Wii U can run say Star Wars 1313 ... if all the versions are $60, who's going to pay $60 for the Wii U version that doesn't run at 1080p and is missing several graphical effects? The 720/PS4 versions are predictably going to sell better. Even as a Nintendo fan, when it comes to my own hard earned money, I'm not buying an inferior version of any game just to support Nintendo.

A lot of people were perfectly happy to buy 360/PS3 games that were inferior to their PC counterparts.

Plus, there's more to it than graphics; with the Wii there were games that were actually better on Wii than on PS360 despite having worse graphics, because the controls enhanced the gamplay. The touch screen has the potential to do the same.

I think all three consoles will have some form of touch screen gimmickry so I don't see that as a long term differniator. MS is even trying to shoe horn this idea into the existing XBox 360 which is seven years old, no doubt it will be part of the next XBox.

Nintendo needs to just forget about this pissing match. They're never going to win it.

But they should be proactive in other ways. Sell the Wii U as the "new NES" to a lot of these small indie houses in the West, ink the most promising devs to financing deals (which means exclusivity). Keep racking up Japanese exclusives.

Nintendo can sell their own systems on their own content, what they actually need is help in having a few games that can broaden their demographics and make them credible to hardcore players that don't want to pay for a "Mario/Zelda" machine.

But you don't need 1000 third party games to do this. Even 4-5 smart alliances with the right studios can give Nintendo an adequetely diverse library.

How many third party exclusives did the PS3 and Xbox360 get? Especially in the last 2 years? The Wii U already has like 10 of them in their launch window alone, excluding any digital exclusives of course. Admittedly, some of them get published by Nintendo but it's contract work with third parties, MS and Sony could do the same. People wanted Nintendo to step up and it looks like they did.

Edit: The games I counted as third party exclusives:

1. Bayonetta 2

2. Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online

3. Lego City Undercover

4. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

5. Rabbids Land

6. Rayman Legends

7. Scribblenauts Unlimited

8. Tank! Tank! Tank!

9. The Wonderful 101

10. ZombiU

There are also some ports who are heavily modified like Ninja Gaiden, Sonic Racing, Tekken, Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper. That's pretty good regarding exclusive content if you ask me. The only question is if Nintendo will be able to keep this pace up.

Launch window in the long term is somewhat inconsequential.

The key period for the Wii U is what happens afterwards.

You don't need a 1000 exclusives like I said. But 3-4 Bayonetta 2 sized exclusives every year from year 2-4 of the console cycle are important, and these exclusives should be "demographic broadening" .... meaning not "Mario _____".

Once Nintendo can get that they'll be OK, but until they do they're always going to have this problem with droughts. They haven't had a single console that had a really steady flow of content since the SNES, and that was 20 years ago now.

No. The market dictate how long something stays relavent. Not Sony. Not Nintendo. Not Microsoft. Not even Apple.

10 years or more is possible as long as the market still are showing interest.