Tanas

The problem is that Sony and MS are playing very bad game, both loosing money for several years after they push out the new console, and covering them through other non-gaming businesses.

Why would Nintendo want to enter that race? Those two are bigger and can sustain bigger loses. Nintendo can't win that one. (Given the loses of Sony and MS gaming departments, one could also wonder if this is something those two would want to keep doing too)

Instead Nintendo choose to do very wise thing:
-Create the console so cheap to produce that it will both a)make them money and b)be substantially cheaper to sell even from their competitors subsidized machines.
-Add something which those more expansive solutions won't have (IR pointer, motion, virtual console)
-Use their famous gaming characters (which more expensive solutions don't have)

I don't think anything will change economy-wise related to this in future. So I don't expect Nintendo to try to catch with next Sony and MS console either. They will again try to do something cheaper, and try to draw people using something original and games featuring their mascots.

Actually, in the table tennis you control if you will do backhand or forehand... Not sure why it wouldn't work for you :-/

Probably the wii's system won't recognize the SDHC though. For now only homebrew channel supports it, so it means that you won't be able to use it for anything but putting the homebrew apps on it. And also those apps don't support SDHC yet, so if you have the SNES emulator or ScummVM, you still won't be able to use it for the roms. But probably they will all support it in time to come (except Nintendo, that is)

Probably you should update the article with correction that those are newly supported games by scummvm. As others pointed, wii port has full support for all the games you can play through scummvm on pc (including Sam and Max).