One of the side-effects of the Wii's popularity will be that most developers will be far more likely to develop games at graphical quality the game can support rather than what the hardware can do. This doesn't mean that all games will use 'outdated' graphics (as some HD-Fanboys would call them), but you will probably only see the big-budget blockbusters attempt to produce graphics which take full advantage of the hardware they're given.

On top of this, when the next consoles are being released the integrated GPUs and CPUs (and bargain basement CPUs) will outperform the PS3 and XBox 360's hardware; to produce a console that is 4 times as powerful and can be sold at $200 for a profit (or small loss) will be very easy.

My personal expectations are that the next consoles will be much more powerful than the HD consoles currently are, but the combination of diminishing returns on processing power and processing power 'wasted' in ways people don't notice will result in it seeming like a small step. In order to explain what I mean, if you take a game that surpasses Crysis on ultra high and display it at 1080p @60fps with full AA and AF it would require hardware that is far above the HD consoles; at the same time the average consumer will say "It looks like a PS3/XBox 360 game" or if they're really lucky "It looks slightly better than a PS3/XBox 360 game" ...

Nintendo follows a tradition of Revolution / Perfection

NES was a revolution in 2D gameplay
SNES perfected 2D gameplay
N64 was a revolution in 3D gameplay
Gamecube perfected 3D gameplay
Wii was a revolution in motion controlled games

following this pattern the Wii2 will perfect everything the Wii offers.

Yea that makes a lot of sense, even though the ps2 was in play.

Sarcasm

I think in terms of technology and features then yes they will be better. Also, Nintendo should have a much better online network by then, their current set-up is somewhat lacking.

even the weakest next gen console will be twice as powerful compared to the x360 or to the ps3.

Calm down Sony fan, he means for Nintendo consoles, not overall.

Well you sounded mad... but that's not the point ^_^

lol of course they will be stronger.. nintendo just didnt do it because they wanted to win more money, and they knew that seeling crap hardware but a new experience will late them get to the top, and thats what they did, i think the wii 2.0 will be getting better graphics and sony and MS are going to get better graphic machine, if not, why not stay with the console and launch new peripherals and promote them??