Why change anything?

I would have to agree with fkusumot, it is not, what would Nintendo have done different, but what would 3rd parties have done knowing what they know now of the Wii's success. I believe things would look a lot different had they known the Wii would blow up like it did.

The Flash would be $279 and have a 4 GB flash. Nintendo would have sold as many, made as much money, and the majority of the it needs a hard drive complaints would be gone.

In fact, if Nintendo is not going to release an external hard drive, they just make newer units with a 2 GB flash as they will still make as much off of those units as the made off of the Wiis in 2006/2007.

they would not have made it HD, even for not much extra

they know hd games cost more to make and take longer

they don't believe enough people care enough about hd at this point in time for it to be a difference maker

so they woulda kept hd off like they did

they woulda made more than they have and wii would already be past 40mil consoles sold

Wait, so they know the current design is selling like hotcakes and for some reason they would want to change the design because of this? That really makes no sense. If I remember right they said their main goal was to make a sub $100 console. I don't see them suddenly changing a winning formula and adding costs.

IF they had sold to a hardcore only crowd, with winning numbers, then they would have added a hdd and hd graphics. That's not the case though.