>>The surprising popularity of the Wii has allowed Nintendo to shift focus from technological advances to gameplay

I sorta feel the opposite, many games use the wiimote in ways that a d-pad could do fine.

But nintendo has always lead in controller design. They invented the d-pad with the NES and created a whole new world of 2D gaming, they invented the analog for the N64 and created a whole new world of 3D gaming, and now they created the wiimote that...

Well, its sorta like using a mouse that floats in the air.

I think Mad World's been the best use of the wiimote, as in the most fun I've had out of it. Shaking and spinning in high intensity situations, chopping to deliver a final blow

Yeah, the wiimote has innovated with another level of interactiveness.

But dude, yo mama told me you aint got no balls, she told me this when she finished taking my teabag on her face and lips..

I agree, it sends out all the wrong signals in that a cheap as chips console and shovelware can gain loads of money.

Nintendo fans are pulling themselves off this gen because Wii is leading, but they fail to understand that all the Wii is doing is creating more harm than good.

Now we have Sony and MS jumping on the gimmick train with their stupid peripherals.

I wouldnt mind if they were just honest about going after the casual pound, but all this talk of gameplay pisses me off.

If Nintendo are so concerned with gameplay then why dont we see more of their killer series like Zelda, F zero, Pilotwings etc etc, like the N64, oh yeah cos the N64 didnt sell any games

Speaking as one of the 75 million morons you mentioned, I can't wait to play a Wii+ with 360/PS3 graphics. But what do I know? I'm not wise like you ; )

>>Nintendo is always about 2 years behind the technology curve let's get real Nintendo.

Nintendo got Real when Reggie Fils-Aime, 6 years ago in E3 got on stage and introduced himself as "My name is Reggie. I'm about kickin' ass, I'm about takin' names, and we're about makin' games." and then proceeded to rape Sony and Microsoft up the bum with their wii.

>>The current Wii would eventually die out just like the original DS did and the DS lite will now that the DSi is out.

and amazingly, they play the same games.

U clearly dont know what your talking about. Nintendo have ALWAYS lead technologicaly with graphics and sound in their consoles, the only exception to this FACT is the Wii. NES was up against spectrum, comadore, atari 2600, amstrad,it wasnt untill Sega mastersystem came out after it 2 years later that it was betterd in that gen. Mega-drive(Genesis) was hot and then the SNES made it look obselete with a much bigger colour pallet and display, the audio was soo much better (CD quality, 41khz sampling rate)after playing street fighter 2 on Snes, it was unplayable on the megadrive cause it was just soo nasty incomparison. Only machine that gen that could out do it was the £400 Neo-Geo, at £200/300 a game. and the Snes had graphical effects even the neo was incapable of. N64 first home console to feature antialised graphics has a hardware feature. plus true 64 bit when that gen was all 32. Gamecube, with its game that shipped with the machine(Luigis Mansion) demonstrated visuals that the ps2 never betterd. With a chip set that was soposedly cheaper than Xbox, on several occasions shown that its texure maping ability was a class above xbox with the ability to display 8 textures on a single surface, 4 was the max for xbox. Consistently used character models with WAAY higher polygon counts than the xbox, xbox disguised its lower polygon models with shaders( the gamecube had a "type of shader" it was not the same tech, but used a differnt method to do same affects, it was called a TEV unit, but it was sorely underused) the only place xbox undoubtedly out performed cube was with its REAL TIME dolby digital 5.1 and that, ladys and gentlemen brings us to the Wii. A company first....Not bringing the fight graphicaly or sonicaly.

Nah, they shouldnt at all. F-ck wits with no memory of Sony constant lies are the undoing of Nintendo. If in the last gen people (like i did) realised Sonys over exasperated technological claims was to be a constant feature of Sony, do you not think they woulda brought GameCube instead? i mean, look at the dreamcast. Bare this in mind, i am a Nintendo fan, and there was a time this would pain me to say/admit, but the Dreamcast had the very finest selection of games that featured very little shovel ware, i say only the n64 came close to it in this respect, it DESERVED TO SUCCEED. But people held out for Ps2, and why? Because of that damned Toy story claim! They didnt see better visuals from the machine (Ps2) until 2 years into the ps2 life cycle,and Sega wasn't getting enough income to be able to stay in the console race with out going bankrupt. Nintendo lost a most worthy advisary in Sega, and got Phoney with it's "PS" brand (partialy sighted) Developers go where the game players at, so Nintendo lost in my opinion what made them great in NES SNES N64 erra, third party support. ALL of this because Sony are not averse to telling flagrant lies about their yet to be released machines, ps2 it was emotion engine can power ps2 to do Toy story in real time. But when it was apparent this was never to be, it was too late, massive user base. And that is what brings us to this "no faith in public" Nintendo with its now mamby pamby approach to gaming because they KNOW the ignorant masses (Sony f-ck wits customers) will lap up sony lies, like Lewis hamildon laps up at Nicole Swcerzingers punani(but in his defense, who wouldnt?). And Nintendo have too much self worth to stoop so low as to boast about false tech abilitys, and if you want proof of that, The game-cube was rated at 9 to 12 million polygons per second "in game" real conditions. Factor5 attained 18 million according to them "easily" with a game(Rogue squadron 2) that from begining of coding to actual release took a meare 9 months! master chief (halo 2) was built from if i remember correctly somthing like 9 thousand polygons. Were in Resident evil 4 (gamecube) characters where all made up of 18 thousand polygons each. Now put this in perspective, sony never stated the actual in game polygon ability of ps2, only that it could push 90 million flat lit triangles per second, and even microsoft used a simular aproach to describe power (125 million flat lit triangles per sec) but they never overclaimed their machine's ability with nonsense claimes like sony did, so microsoft have my respect.Now with the Wii being tha so far top selling machine this gen, whats to say they dont try their luck next gen and bring the visuals with control inovations? Remember folks, if it wasnt for nintendo, we probably wouldnt be using control pads anyway, but we are thank to them!(Controll pads first brought fourth by the big N)

Nintendo is has had growing profits for 5 years (until Q4'09) and is one of the most profitable tech businesses. If you feel it is underpowered, dont buy one, but they have the most right to be in business than any other company.

The Wii has been an unbelievable success for Nintendo and you suggest they should get out of the hardware business...

You don't work in business, right?

Powerglove! I want a powerglove, like that cool kid with the hair in that film the Wizard. Now if only I had the autism abilities to use one.....