I doubt someone with a next gen console wants to borrow that (I wouldn't do that!) I have two or more friends with Wii and I think they are not using it that much, I'll see.
On a side note: the wii production end and the fact that wii u is 100% backwards compatible means I might be in the target audience of Wii-U, lol, didn't thought about that af first. (I'm such a fanboy sometimes! LOL) XD

Does Wii games work on Wii-U controller  screen? That would be good for non hd games to be played on a "portable" at bed.

So basically you're saying that people bought the Wii to... What, stare at its shiny glossy texture?

Got it...

Where are you getting that Wii sold for 3 years? It recieved a healthy diet of games for over 5 years, and sold at least respectable numbers for around 5 as well.. It's just that, for 3 of those years, it sold PHENOMENALLY rather than just good.

It's far more needed for Sony and MS, because their 1st party is much much weaker.

The PS2 sold 48.5M units from the PS3 release quarter to the end FY2011.  After that it's hard to calculate since Sony started adding PS2 & PS3 numbers together.  I would say the PS2 easily sold over 50M units after the release of the PS3.  I don't think Sony published where those sales were from, but it's likely a lot of those sales were in developing markets.

PS: The Master System Sonic didn't seem half bad and still had a sense of speed, though Altered Beast looked kind of slow.  Streets of Rage music was still good too.

The price drop was in 2002, the inflation adjusted price would be around $63.50.  So if converted directly, for $3.50 more than MSRP of most new PS3/360 games you could buy a PS1 console.  Though that would be an odd number to sell at and inflation doesn't reflect retail one to one. 

The $49 Playstation price was also a good psychological price point.  It was $0.99 cheaper than the MSRP of new PS2 games ($49.99) and around 4 times cheaper than the PS2 console ($199).  For retailers I would say the modern day equivalent of the $49 PS1 price would be $59.  While this $59 price is low, it still doesn't have the same preceived value as $49.

I also think that the PS1 was the first major console to cut it's MSRP by one sixth of it's launch price, that would equate to a $99 60GB PS3 or a $41.65 Wii.

Yes... but since you need the original Wii controllers, it's anything but portable.

Sorry didn't understand clearly this is precisely what I would like: Insert Xenoblade Chronicles in Wii-U, go to another room to play it on the pad.

Is that possible?

I have no idea of the range of the pad, but to play wii games even on it, you need a wiimote/nunchuck (or whatever scheme is used in Xenoblade, I used a classic controller pro).

Finally. Although discontinuing the Wii and not the DS is another "derp" moment for Nintendo.

Whatever.

This says something to me. If a 1000 units is the breaking point where Nintendo doesn't want to sell a console anymore, that means that a little bit more than a 1000 units made enough profit to offset the cost of manufacturing, marketing, and distributing. Now, seeing as the Wii sold around 20,000 ww this week (20x more than 1000, keep in mind) and generally still sells around that amount at a minimum ww, it can be safe to assume that Nintendo is probably making a good amount of money from the Wii and the cost of production and distribution is so low that it takes selling 1000 or less to actually make them get close to losing money.

In the short term, it's helping Nintendo out that the Wii is still selling decently considering it's successor has been out for basically a year already (offsetting, in part, the loss that each Wii U sells for).