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Miyamoto Talks Wii-mote Logic
Mr. Miyamoto, in an interview with Nintendo's .jp site, explains some of the logic behind the Wii-mote. From the Gamespot article: "In the process of contemplating how to make a controller that was not intimidating but still allowed for traditional game play, Miyamoto had this realization: 'There's no need to use both hands.' He added that the idea was to break the existing conventions a little, but not too much. 'If you go too far off the deep end, the product will be eccentric for the sake of being eccentric,' Miyamoto said."
I think it would be an awesome easter egg if they released duck hunt from the NES built into the console, kinda like what sega did with the master system and the maze game. I would love to shoot some ducklings with my wii gun.
That doesn't change the fact that people will have positive expectations for a company only because they associate that company with the "good old days" of gaming. That's the only reason I'm pulling for them.
The truth is, Nintendo is only a possible frontrunner; all prior indications would suggest that they will be in second place at best throughout this generation. We have to go with facts from the past and not speculation about the future, and in the past, Nintendo has been the company doing everything wrong, including their licensing practices (read: alienation of third parties), to their abandonment of the CD format (read: creation of the Playstation monster). Also, saying the Nintendo DS's success is an indication of rosy prospects for the Wii is akin to saying that the GBA's success would help move Gamecube to the top of the home console hill.
Actually let's assume this logic. Let's assume that for every PS2 sold, a PS3 would be purchased and that for every GBA, DS, and Gamecube sold, a Wii would be purchased. In this case, the PS3 would outsell the Wii.
All this muck is tough to sift through, and what's going to happen is far from known. Just look at what happened in the PS1/N64/Saturn generation. That's the generation that I had to turn to two different consoles to get what I got from my beloved Super Nintendo, the generation that Japan's once most profitable corporation took a backseat to the new guys without any indication that it was going to happen.