Yeah releasing an inferior console last wasn’t a very smart move but their profits on it have been large, compared to the XBOX360 and PS3, both of which are in the red overall. I don’t think Nintendo really cared about delivering a powerhouse this round. Sounds fanboyish, I know, but taking the weaker yet cheaper and more profitable route suited them well during the economic downturn.
I’ve been playing the playstation line since it was first released back in the mid-90s but have never really found enough interest in their titles to warrant buying one and until just recently the multiplatforms were always released on the Nintendo line as well. Marketing it as a living room powerhouse is a smart move but without the ability to play movies that aren’t on blu-ray DVDs I have no need for it. Now, if they had left OtherOS alone and made the whole thing compatible with something other than FAT32, which has a filesize limit of 4GB, then yeah I’d already own one, but as it stands my Wii is compatible with more types of media than the PS3 and that’s just sad. I still prefer my $350 media center PC with a 2TB hard drive 