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Originally Posted by Jonbo298
I was just saying that ethernet should have been built in because not everyone has wireless routers yet. Some people swear to never get one until they get almost perfect signal strength
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Nintendo has promised to sell a cheap router. And as for people who won't get one until they have almost perfect signal strength: I'm guessing those would be hardcore tech-heads. Too bad they only make up a tiny minority of the population. They're missing out, too. It's good enough for my dad, and he's a computer engineer.
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The only reason Nintendo irks me with HD is because IT IS going to be the standard in the US in only a few years. I know 480p is great and all but I wish there was flexibility in allowing up to 1080i or p or whatever and not just only 480p 
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"In only a few years"? How many years would that be? 3? 5? 10?
Current data on HDTV adoption is based on sales reports by retailers, but there's a big problem with it. It only measures how many HDTV sets are being sold. There's good evidence to suggest that a significant number of HDTV sets are being purchased by people who
already have an HDTV set. They just want to upgrade because they're crazy tech-heads like that. That's good for the manufacturers, but it doesn't increase marketshare one bit.
The other problem is that right now, the people buying HDTV sets tend to be early adopters. One reason that IGN is stupid is they think the advent of HD can be compared to the transition to color from black and white. The fact of the matter is most people see no compelling reason to get an HDTV set. I have no doubt that within a few years, HDTV will be in some 20% of households. The question is how fast it will grow after that, and I wouldn't be too sure that it's going to be met with eager hands just because a few people on the internet think it's the greatest new technology ever made.
Besides that, we have Europe and Japan to consider. Look up their numbers some time.
The bottom line is that saying HD will be the standard in a few years is not only vague, it's also frankly foolish and heedlessly optimistic.
P.S. Don't look now, but Nintendo still makes way more money in their business than Microsoft. They even do better than Sony. So why are they going to be third party in a few years again?