Take away the touchscreen and mic from the DS and you're left with essentially a GBA SP with two screens.
I don't remember the GBA being capable of N64 level polygons. The hardware boost was as signicifant as any typical console generation. That alone would have sufficient. I don't care for Metroid Prime Hunters but do you think you could make a 3D game like that for the GBA?
"Useless gimmicks" are making Nintendo loads of money. Your bitching makes Nintendo no money. I wouldn't make games for you either.
Nintendo doesn't make much money off of me anymore but it's entirely because they stopped making games for me. I was the loyal customer and they hung me out to dry. I put up with a lot of their incompetent bullshit before they told me to take a hike. They turned on me before I turned on them. What you're basically saying is that if a company pisses off their loyal customers, they should just tell those customers to go **** themselves and go after someone else who won't complain.
What I want are great games with responsive and accurate controls. It's a gimmick if it sucks. Make the game control like a dream and it isn't a gimmick. When I declare something a gimmick, I'm saying that in personal experience the feature adds virtually nothing to the game at best and at worst hurts the game. I didn't consider polygons a gimmick, or the analog stick a gimmick or online play a gimmick. I didn't **** on those ideas when they were new because they proved themselves early on.
This isn't even new. The DS already did the touchscreen thing. So if I wasn't wowed by the DS's touchscreen why would this be any different? If Nintendo had all these awesome ideas for it, isn't it likely they would have done them already on the DS? Why would they hold back on anything like that? Any cynicism towards Skyward Sword is the same logic. If Nintendo was going to do something truly worthwhile with motion control, why would it take until likely the last Wii game to accomplish it? Surely they would have come up with something years ago. Nintendo nailed the analog stick in the FIRST GAME THEY USED IT IN! First attempt to do a sidescrolling game? Nailed it. First attempt to use polygons? Nailed it. First attempt to do a full 3D game? Nailed it. First attempt to bring any of their 2D franchises into 3D? Nailed it with Mario, Zelda AND Metroid! When Nintendo hits on a truly awesome concept they get it right the first time. They don't **** around for five years with half-baked efforts and then suddenly nail it.