They were only conventional if you consider an in-order execution PowerPC conventional.

Honestly, it doesn't sound like you've actually played with one for any amount of time. The tablet experience is great (has been since day one), all the Wii options are still there (including updated Wii Fit and Wii Sports iterations - both were late to the party, but better late than never). I read a lot of complaints about the Wii U, but unfortunately damn near all the complaints I read are from people who don't actually own one.

The .NET CLR is also inconsistent between Windows platforms (e.g. Framework 4.0 on XP does not exhibit identical behavior to Framework 4.0 on Windows 7; this is without Framework 4.5 on the Windows 7 system, which would only muddle the comparison). The only place I can recall encountering this was with WPF's visual tree where on a couple occasions I've had to rearrange XAML in order for it to not cause XP to crash when loading it.

Tell that to Apple.

Removing hasty moderation.

I'm starting to think you're a shill. You listed the two most open console platforms to independent developers without the need for a publisher, but left out the one that is the absolute pits to self-publish on (Microsoft).

You seem to be living in the past if you think that's still Nintendo's policy. Their policy with the Wii U for digital publishing is not the same as it was for the Wii.

Probably because there was no Hitachi Deathstar experience. He might recall the IBM Deskstar failures (75GXP), but that occurred years before they sold their hard drive division to Hitachi.

There's nothing wrong with Nintendo's pricing. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is worth every bit its price which is $49.99 MSRP (and it's not been the first or even second first party title they've used a lower MSRP on). I'd have gladly paid $59.99 for DKCTF after having now played it; so much better than expected (especially because I never did get into Donkey Kong Country Returns; will have to revisit that). Comparing the HD remake of Wind Waker to the HD ports of other titles is disingenious; have you bothered to actually compare them? Have you bothered to see that there were also improvements made to the game both to fix issues players had with the original as well as integrating some of the Wii U's features?

The problem Nintendo has is marketing as far as I can tell. Their games are as good as ever, and their hardware is better than ever. The problem is tools that read a book by its cover, and then share their insight with the world.