Try to imagine than Nintendo are anorexic. They have an entirely different perspective so for them what may seem like a huge massive incredible deal just seems like nothing to everyone who doesn't share that perspective.

Nintendo: I'll eat those 6 grapes and I promise you I won't even throw them up later.

Rest of us: Bah that's just 6 grapes it is hardly a big deal.

Nintendo: Honestly I'm not even hungry and I'm eating them just because you made such a big deal about it. Look I've been bending over backwards to try to please you but you don't even acknowledge my huge effort right here, see?! These are 6 grapes and they are massive.

So there you have it, an idiots guide to understanding Nintendo. Tongue firmly in cheek.

If Nintendo is the Anorexic Girl...

Then who is HedonismBot?

BUT WHO IS DARLENE?

:D

Probably Apple. Look at what passes for an apology to Samsung from them!

wait what...

No it means that I'm saying something which could be construed as offensive but also saying that I mean no offense, I.E. I'm kidding.

Nintendo has a perspective and the rest of us also have a perspective. What is a big deal for them (squeezing heaps of performance out of a small case) seems like a small issue for an outsider (why not just make the case 50% larger by volume and consume twice as much power). Because for core gamers the games machine is an important part of their life they don't see it as being a big deal if it was slightly larger whereas for a casual gamer having a big huge box in their TV cabinet next to their diminuitive DVD player is a huge deal.

The Xbox 360 and PS3 are small compared to this:

But are huge compared to this:

So they compensate by trying to do the job of the latter to justify their presence/size in the living room.

Oh, I remember when I was anorexic :(
Hope you get better Nintendo!

I was too...

It all makes sense now. Thank you for explaining.