>Much like Apple, Nintendo has a legacy of software-hardware tie-in. This is the most important point in a nutshell. Shigeru Miyamoto can decide that the next

>Much like Apple, Nintendo has a legacy of software-hardware tie-in. This is the most important point in a nutshell. Shigeru Miyamoto can decide that the next Mario game should have a mechanic that allows little sisters to point a wand at the screen and collect star bits while the older brother does the "hard" stuff, and Nintendo can create the hardware to bring this to life. (I'm not saying that's the history of the Wii, just that it's Nintendo's competitive advantage.)