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I have no doubt eventually keys will be extracted, and the thing will be hacked based on this hack here, but, until that happens, Sony's still winning.

And production costs should be below sales costs by then, so Sony will continue to win. Kudos to the Sony security team for developing a sufficiently secure system to support the business model.

Now, let's build some clusters...

Although the SNES2 (or Junior, or whatever) very clearly is aesthetically inspired by the Super Famicom, and not by the North American "Betty Crocker" design of the SNES - It was the SNES2, and it was indeed released in North America.

Nintendo probably didn't see a need to re-redesign the Japanese re-design of the Super Famicom at the very end of the SNES' lifespan.

Though looking closer at the image they used, yeah, that clearly is the Japanese Super Famicom version of the re-design.

But as you can see, other than a slight shade difference on the buttons, and the logo text on the console itself, there's no difference aesthetically. Here's the North American SNES2 for comparison.

They wanted to distance themselves from the old brand - just by dint of the name, GameBoy has connotations of a (male) child's toy.

Or they wanted to protect the "Gameboy" brand from the (then) threat of Sony's PSP with what they called the "third pillar", a handheld with gimmicks like two screens, touch sensitivity, and a microphone. Only after DS exceeded all expectations ("It prints money!") did they let the Gameboy line quietly die.