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You almost had a point, up untiil the blatant hating. Hating on Nintendo and Apple, so very 2001 of you. An understandable attitude, those folk are happy with what they have and aren't afraid of letting you know about it, so it makes you bitter. Being a former user of both doesn't mean too much, both companies have had massive changes in the last few years and are going nowhere except up.
Maybe it's all a ploy by Nintendo to ditch the hardcore gamers. Hardcore gamers are an arrogant bunch of pricks who think they know how to make the best games and that developers should do exactly what they want for their next game, and when they don't get exactly what they want they bitch and scream and moan about it endlessly in forums such as this. I used to be one, it was horrible.
By giving it a weird name, not as much horsepower and marketing it towards those wonderful billions of people that haven't, until now, really cared about games, they cut out the bastards from the market and have more freedom to do what they want. Nintendo doing what they want is a key part of their business ethic. Wind Waker is a screaming example of this - many gamers didn't even touch it because they weren't secure in their maturity/personality/sexuality/whatever, and they missed out on an absolute gem of a game.
Regardless, they're setting the web and media on fire with this. Getting everyone and their dog talking about their new console. Same thing happened when they revealed the Revmote and the DS. What better way to publicise your product than a little bit of scandal?
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"'There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person,' says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex."
-- From an IGN game review.
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