No, the adoption rate would have been garbage. Also the response rate was far too slow for the GC. They tested it, I read about it. *sigh* go troll elsewhere.

PS. Just cuz Iwata said what was correct and on his mind, and it happened to conflict with the propaganda you have been fed doesn't mean you should attack the man.

Yeah because we know that the GC has the proper hardware to support the Wii-mote, grow up...

@Zucas: Umm... That's exactly what Iwata said, translated from PR to english. Although, there's an exception, just take a look what redesigns have done to hardware sales in Japan.
And then again, Iwata seems to know how to do business, which means that since Wii and DS are dominant consoles and Nintendo the market leader, being the last in the market serves Nintendos interest the best, since it wants to drive sales with its innovation (which can be copied).

@Topic: Maybe someone should put a series of articles called "Iwata owns", which introduces people behind Nintendos PR.

It make sense. I do hope that the 5-year cycle average life of consoles get expanded not only with the wii.

Another consideration is India and China ...

Although people have started shipping consoles to India and China the majority of potential users can not afford a system that costs $100, their developers can (probably) not manage to produce games which are based on the current HD consoles, and consumers will not buy games that cost more than $5 to $10 with how rampant piracy is.

In 2010/2011 Nintendo may decide to replace the Wii with a new console, but they can still push the Wii in both the western world (as you suggested) and they can start heavily pushing the Wii in the developing world.

i think that thats a stupid comment because wat Sony means is that theyll keep supporting the PS3 even though theyll be bringing out their newer console, the PS4

@puertoecuanama: It doesn't matter what Sony means, what matters is how people read it. If you look over the internet what all the Sony fanboys are saying about "the ten year plan", you'll notice that people expect PS4 to come out 2016 "because Sony said so". And what Iwata is saying here is, that "the ten year plan" (as fanboys have read it) is nothing but bullshit. Sony may try to support the PS3 for ten years (which is unlikely, but not impossible, depending on their console strategy as a whole), but it means that all the support the PS3 gets, is away from PS4:s support, the console they need to focus the most in order to make big bucks and regain their previous market position.

Iwata is right....
I am glad the troll was banned

He's talking in expanded market terms, innovation to reach new consumers. That what maintains sales - when that can't be done on the current hardware then you make a new hardware that can reach the next expansion.

Predictiving hardware life span by just the hardware's technology is pointless because technology doesn't buy itself. The gaming industry relies on innovation and technology is along for the ride.