Exactly my feeling while reading this. Who cares? Not Nintendo. They didn't set out to build a platform that would please console geeks. They did the opposite. They set out to build a console that everyone else would love and buy, and which would make a solid profit for Nintendo. And they succeeded, big time.
Turns out nobody but console geeks cares about the architecture. And at a couple of hundred quid a pop, I'm sure most Wii owners will be more than willing to upgrade to a new version when the hardware is upgraded. They're not upgrading a small computer, they're upgrading a console.
PS3/XBox, on the other hand, have take the road of literally building a whole, powerful computer in a box. The market has shown that this is a less successful way to build consoles - whatever console geeks may have to say about it.
> They didn't set out to build a platform that would please console geeks.
They could still have built it on a better technical basis. That's like saying MS is excused from having had a crappy security model for WinXP (and only slightly less crappy for WinVista) because they set to "build an operating system for everyone." In the end, if you build something on a better technical basis, everyone profits.
Turns out nobody but console geeks cares about the architecture. And at a couple of hundred quid a pop, I'm sure most Wii owners will be more than willing to upgrade to a new version when the hardware is upgraded. They're not upgrading a small computer, they're upgrading a console.
PS3/XBox, on the other hand, have take the road of literally building a whole, powerful computer in a box. The market has shown that this is a less successful way to build consoles - whatever console geeks may have to say about it.