Firstly, I'm so non-invested in any of this, I'm not quite sure why I'm arguing so strongly on Nintendo's behalf, heh. But anyway, I never said PS3's or Xboxes weren't found in homes belonging to anyone outside the hardcore, although that same statistic doesn't necessarily say most of those PS3's using netflix aren't also being used for core-centric gaming. Anyway, I'm all for convergent media (to a point), but Nintendo has always felt like something of a special case to me, a company so defined by gaming as its central motivating principle, as a medium about fun, accessibility and family as much as hardcore obsessive gaming, but always gaming. And I'm sure, like with the Wii (though it took it a while to get there) Wii U will surely embrace home entertainment streaming services like Netflix or Hulu and so on. But I honestly don't see anything wrong with them pushing their product as a purely game-centric piece of merch. It's all about the software though, and we all know their first-party stuff is nearly unmatched - there's more creative and artful design in a single stage of Donkey Kong Country Returns than in the entire collective output of most studios. I also think it's a bit of a myth regarding third-party support on Nintendo's consoles. I mean, in terms of sheer quantity of major titles and recognizable franchise support it doesn't match Sony or Microsoft, but there are a good number of outstanding games, unique to Wii, from third party developers that nobody simply knows about because they never took off or weren't marketed well - off the top of my head just stuff like Zack & Wiki, Muramasa, Mad World, Boom Blox, No More Heroes, etc. I hardly think it's a tragedy if people can't get their Call of Duty or GTA on a Nintendo console. Like I said before, I just feel that they do their thing, and they do it exceedingly well and offer unique experiences that actually at least try to expand the way people think about and play games, and that's all they ever have to do, so who gives a shit about if they do it on a blu-ray disc or in HD (the fact they do HD now alone is exciting, though I'm not going to throw a fit if their graphical horsepower remains a generation or a half behind the rest... it's so irrelevant.)
Haters gonna hate.
