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Distribute the games on a medium that isn't designed to be easily created with ordinary consumer hardware. Back in the day that meant cartridges. These days it would probably look more like a USB flash drive (or maybe like a memory card), except instead of flash memory inside it would have a ROM chip. The device is designed to read the game software from that medium -- not from a CD, DVD, or hard drive.

There's no way we could go back to that now. Why go to all the cost of producing multi-gigabyte ROM chips when they can pump the games out on BluRay for a few cents per copy, and particularly when the games would still get illegally dumped and distributed anyway! They'd just be going to great expense to put a small bump in the road for the pirates.

In the long term people will figure out how to read and make images of the games that anyone can use in an emulator on a PC -- if you know where to look, you can easily find ROM images and emulators on the internet for all the old eight-bit consoles -- but that only becomes really practical once the console hardware is sufficiently obsolete to be easily emulated, i.e., after you're already selling at least the subsequent generation of console if not the one after that.

You don't have to wait 10+ years if the console was already obsolete when it was released. Case in point: Dolphin was emulating Wii games with a high degree of accuracy and compatibility for a large part of the Wii's active lifespan. Yes, the hardware requirements were a bit steep (though not so much now) to run games perfectly, but it shows how weak the Wii's hardware was (i.e. barely a step beyond the Gamecube) that a very playable emulator was available while Wii games and consoles still sat on store shelves.

All Wii accessories will be compatible. http://reviews.cnet.com/nintendo-wii-u/

However, it will not upscale original Wii games. http://www.ign.com/wikis/wii-u/Frequently_Asked_Questions

This is unfortunate. The Dolphin emulator has been able to render GameCube and Wii games at 1080p for a couple of years now.

Or Dolphin, the GameCube / Wii Emulator

OTOH, a low-power CPU (i3 2100T with the included 600 RPM fan, a PSU with a quiet FAN and an 80+ gold rating, and probably no graphics card, will make no audible noise, less than the hard disk. silentpcreview.com has lists and reviews of components.

Dolphin is a Wii emulator, so it may need a real graphics card, especially if he's considering 1080p (wii doesn't do 1080p but the emulator does).

I'd recommend the $40 fanless Radeon HD 5450. As you can see from this review the 5450 provided double the framerates compared to a i3 2100 without a video card, in many cases going from unplayable 20-something fps to very playable 50+ fps.

Of course in that same review they threw in a $70 Radeon HD 5570 which many times offered 2-3x the framerates of the fanless 5450, but the 5570 has a fan and noise is the primary concern to the poster, not price or framerates.

Nintendo said it won't render Wii games at higher resolutions.

URL? If that's true, it's extremely lame. If you can play Wii games at 1080p in an emulator, why can't the new console do the same?

Umm, how about Mario Party? The nice thing about having a PC is you can also emulate a lot of other systems, including the Gamecube and Wii. You can even use Gamecube and Wii controllers with a PC.

Build yourself a FAST gaming machine and run Dolphin on it. It's one of the selling points is that will output at 1080p. Only downside is the beefy hardware requirements.

DeSmuME
Dolphin - GC & Wii.
Cxbx - xbox emulator that doesn't quite work yet.

Wii emulator - http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/
DS emulator - http://desmume.org/

The PS3 and Xbox360 emulators are not functional yet and I can only find loose framework of groups talking about how to approach it. Give it a year and they will exist.