For as long as I can remember, every single hardware decision they've made has been either archaic or gimmick driven, or in some cases both.
Carts for DS was gimmick driven? The analog stick is archaic? Rumble is either?
The fact that you (andrex) think waggle
Waggle? No. And for most games, it was unfortunately out of place. It did lead to some very fresh gameplay experiences, though, but publisher mandates early on in the Wii's lifecycle really gave "motion control" (derogatory: waggle) a bad name.
Similarly, Kinect for the vast majority of games is useless, but as evidenced by Skyrim voice control has some interesting secondary applications. Like motion control and IR (two different things, mind.)
Online is a fad
Again putting words in my mouth and setting up this imaginary strawman Ninthing you think everybody who enjoys Nintendo's games must be like. Get over yourself and grow up.
And that is why Nintendo, and by relation their bigger, die hard fans are shitty for the industry. Instead of moving forwards, you want to either take a step sideways into whimsy land or anchor your ass in last gen's assets and call it an exciting new direction.
I dare you to go into the Wii U speculation thread on GAF (a set of threads that even I stay away from, for sanity's sake) and find one poster,
one poster saying it would be a good thing if Wii U was underpowered. There's your homework for tonight, kid.
Anybody who likes Nintendo's output (which, really, has actually been really good compared to Capcom, or Konami, or heck most of the Japanese gaming industry this gen) always wants to see them do their best when it comes to hardware. I remember Matt Casamassina, subject of ridicule the net over for his Nintendo worship, flip his shit when he found out Wii wasn't going to be HD.
We don't condone these decisions, we don't enjoy them. We live with them, and try to find the good in things. Like IR, without which we wouldn't have a couple of my favorite games, especially my favorite Sega game of all time The House of the Dead: Overkill.
You. are. bad. for. videogames. Have a nice day.
I will, since none of what you said even remotely applies to me. But if the only way you can get your rocks off is flinging insults wildly in a random direction, be my guest. You just won't look very smart doing it.