Wher? Soure please?

 Yet if so, that would merely be upscaling, like DVDs in HD. The Wii games will still be SD.

I guess that is why we doesn't even have a release date for Super Paper Mario? I am a Nintendo fan, and I can't help wondering why we always have to wait minimum 6 months for the good games.

Robjoh: Except Minnish Cap!

ohh great...

It also saw unprecedented suckage.

A decision doesn't have to result in monetary losses to be considered a mistake.

Sony and MS - Overpriced consoles...

Wii - Ignoring online

Entroper: Yeah, but it has to result in *something* concrete, and it has to be more than opinion. I could say Rockstar's decision to make GTA3 sequels that were little more than expansion packs was a bad idea on the same logic... but this decision lead to nothing but positive results for Rockstar. One gamer's opinion weighed against hundreds of thousands of dissenting opinions means I'm probably wrong.

One person's unprecidented suckage is another person's unprecidented treasure. Or something.

Your Sega comments are off base. I will tell you what Sega's mistakes truly were. Sega of Japan should have just let Tom Kalinske do his job and Sega of America. The most successful Sega console was the Genesis and lion's share of its user base was built in the US under Kalinske. He told Sega of Japan not to release the 32X. They didn't listen and it was a major reason he resigned. I mean if I have sold less than 4 million consoles and I have an employee that has sold 26 million consoles, I would think he would know his market better than I.

The resignation of Kalinske created a domino effect at Sega of America that resulted in the Saturn's abysmal failure in the US. The early launch fiasco being one of them. That Saturns early launch hurt the DC's ability to get stocked at several major retailers in the US. Bernie Stolar, Kalinske's replacement, was completely incompetent. He basically did to Sega of Japan, what they did to Kalinske. He pressured them to kill of the Saturn, which was doing well in Japan, and shift efforts to it successor. Stolar didn't bring some of Sega's better titles from Japan to the US, mismanaged the ad campaign for the Saturn, etc. Not only that, his actions lowered consumer confidence in Sega in Japan. The Saturn should have been the Japanese equivalent of the Genesis for Sega. Instead, the Saturn was killed off too early because Stolar so royally botched the Saturn in the US.

Sega's biggest mistake was not listening to Kalinske. If they had listened to him, I can guarantee you that they'd still be in the hardware business today. I'm not saying the Saturn would have outsold the PS1 or even the N64, but if Kalinske was around it would have been a viable system in the US for a lot longer than 3 years. Without the 32X fiasco, consumer confidence in Sega would have been higher and based on his record, I can assure you that Kalinske could have gotten better third party support for the Saturn. Sega of Japan and there less than 4 million Mega Drive sales thought they new the US better than Kalinske and his 26 million Genesis sales. Dumb move, dumb move that slowly killed the whole company.

You're wrong, though, the PS has always been a vehicle for Sony to sell its multimedia functions.  Those functions are just becoming more and more advanced as new PlayStations come along.  The PS was made to sell the multimedia functionality of CD-ROM. The PS2 was made so that DVD could spread wide enough to replace VHS outright.  The PS3 was made to win a format war.  Sony has always made their systems to push far more than games.

And Robjoh, the reason Europe doesn't have a date for that game is because Europe usually doesn't buy those kind of games.  The real reason Nintendo has been so weak in Europe is because, for the most part, European gamers just don't like the types of games that go on Nintendo systems.  This looks to be changing, but the simple fact of the matter is that things that can wonderful in the US and/or Japan can fail miserably in Europe AND developers/publishers have to take that risk at a much higher cost thanks to all of the languages and other issues.  If you want games faster, you need to convince all of the countries in Europe to change their tax laws, official languages, and many other factors or you have to wait until it's feasible for a company (any company) to wade through all of that bs without getting bogged down.