There are times when this forum does nothing but depress me. I am so sick of the hideous double standard applied to Nintendo. Microsoft and Sony are making mistakes too, but no one seems to care. XBOX360 has a horrible launch lineup, its best games being delayed. Both the systems cost an insane amount of money, far too much to be acceptable. But no, it's not that, it's Nintendo who is at fault for every thing ever to go wrong in the history of the world!
Nintendo is not competing with the graphics of the 360 or PS3.
That's it, that's all there is to it. Nothing more. If you have a serious problem with that, go buy an XBOX or PlayStation. But that is it. They want to win people with a new interface, not technology. That is their choice. They would rather do mediocre business with their current plan than good business with Sony and Microsoft's plan. If that disagrees with your life philosophy, fine. But you don't work for Nintendo. It is their company, their lives, their work, not yours. They WANT to do this. They aren't cutting corners trying to win back the market as cheaply as possible. They have made a decision on how to make this system appealing, on how to make it what they want, and that's final. Good god Ian, how many times did you say 'match the competition' or a variation of that phrase in your one post? More than five million it felt like. They're not competing! They've been stating this since E3 and you're still acting like they've never said it. What part of them stating this do you not get? They don't want to wage the war Sony and Microsoft are waging, so they're going they own way! There is no issue with them matching the competition because they're not tyring to!
Deal with it.