Interesting stuff if true. My biggest question would be with the motion control stuff. If they want third party publishers on board and want to win back the hardcore market, does it mean more games played with a regular controller, or will these games be built with motion control still in mind? I would imagine one of the features people would like is full backwards compatibility with the Wii so I imagine it probably will stick with motion control in some form. But will the hardcore really stick with it when they view motion control as a gimmick?
Nintendo did themselves no favours with the hardcore this generation. Some great games on the Wii no doubt, but simply not enough and the emphasis has been more on the casual market who, predictably, have grown bored with it.
I'm not sure if it really will be greater than the 360 or PS3 though. I'm not doubting that Nintendo have the capibility, after all both of those consoles have about 5 year old architectures behind them, but it costs a lot of money to make consoles like that, and that's why MS and Sony sell their hardware at a loss. Nintendo policy seems that they sell their hardware at a profit. Also the timing is a bit off to me. If the rumours are true then yes they could release it now and maybe get 2-4 years as the most powerful console on the market. But what about when MS and Sony decide to release a new console? The Wii2 or whatever would fall behind yet again. Why not make a slightly more powerful version of the Wii for the time being, reign in those sales for a while, whilst simultaneously working on a console that could fall in line and compete with MS and Sony and truly make it a 3 horse race the next generation comes around?
Still, exciting times ahead. Mario and Zelda in HD?