SNES sold about 80% of NES.........thats way more than half

So you prefer to know what the brick under your TV will look like rather than what it can do. Well, different strokes for different folks I guess!

My console is almost unseem but used a lot... perhaps he wants to parade with the hh more than play, perhaps he doesn't want to look silly on commute.

Dude, grow up and stop with the stupid ad personam arguments. I'm pointing out that Sony hasn't revealed EVERYTHING at their event. They missed quite an important part. And yes, I actually think that when you host a special event with its sole purpose being the reveal of your console, you should reveal the console. But just like I wasn't going apeshit about the fact that not EVERYTHING was shown the very first moment, other people shouldn't forget that fact and go crazy complaining about NS not showing EVERYTHING in the teaser and pretending that Sony did something entirely different. Get real guys. It took Sony two events and a couple hours to show the stuff you demand from Nintendo.

The problem is that sony "only didn't show the console" while nintendo "only showed the handheld" so you are going from 8 to 80 there.

And you are doing personal attacks so why are you complaining of the other user doing it?

Couldn't agree more with this. There is a huge graveyard of expensive handhelds out there that had terrible battery life, no games, and powerful graphics. I'm still hoping that the NS launches at $250, because otherwise it will get crushed. The XB1 Battlefield bundle is only $300. I'm also hoping that the NS gets a lot of games that are meant for portability, and look around NGC levels. Battery life wouldn't be an issue if they didn't try to run the system at max graphics setting the whole time. 

The OP's point of consumers not wanting full home console experiences on the go is a good one. Here is a perfect example. Activision made the last two Skylanders games full experiences on tablets. They bombed. This years Skylanders game has a mobile app that is a perfect companion to the console game, letting you create Skylanders on the go. Smaller more mobilecentric experience on a mobile device is a better decision.

Are you serious? Games like Pokemon, Monster Hunter, any jrpg, Super Smash Bros., Kid Icarus, Street Fighter, and countless other 3DS titles completely spoil your, "point" here.

People do like home console experiences on the go. Your mindset is primitive. There was a time when people said home consoles should not mirror the big brother arcade experiences because nobody would want that. Looking back, home consoles mimicking arcades was the natural evolution and now hand held mimicking home console experiences should be seen as the next natural evolutionary step.

The fact that hand held/mobile gaming can do companion softwareis a great bonus but there are people that want the same home experiences when they are on the go. The PSP and PSVita sold on the premise of being closer to home console experiences and even though PSVita was not a success, there is obviously a market (a good sized one at that) for home console titles on the go.

10M vs 60M is the good market for console on the go?

It´s one thing, if someone has peculiar arbitrary timeframes and a complete different matter when it comes to the actual timeframe needed to get the information across. Even less of a problem if it comes to gamers that actually seek out information on an almost daily basis and for others it´s far more important to explain the concept first, something the teaser actually does a good job for.

It´s very peculiar to see people actually think, that after an announcement of an interesting game, they would rather prefer a longer wait between reveal and actual release, than having access to it as soon as possible. It´s also silly to act as if the launch of the system is some kind of deadline, rather than a starting point. If someone educated is interested in the system right now, he can already plan what budget he wants to invest next year and act according to what appeals to him later on.