Project Cafe': Hot Java or Just an Average Joe?

I've heard that Nintendo has disclosed another next-gen console, the Nintendo Wii 2, at E3 this past June; not surprising since Nintendo's fellow competitors have sadly yet effectively blown the Wii out of the water in almost every aspect. In order to keep with the times, it would seem that Nintendo's best interest would be to introduce its newest project as soon as possible.

But the real question is this: what's the deal about the new hard drive that the Wii 2 is going to have? This new hard drive innovation, called Project Cafe', is supposed to contain 8 MB of memory, approximately 16 times the storage capacity of the original Wii. In addition to this, the upgrade in storage will allow Wii users to not rely on SD cards as much for additional storage, since the extra hard drive space is said to provide more than enough room for storing retro games, which was the main extractor of Wiipoints on the system's Virtual Console.

While the extra hard drive space is a step in the right direction, it's still not up to snuff with the current hard drive spaces of Nintendo's competitors. Compared to the 250 GB hard drives of the current Xbox 360 and PS3, AND the 20 MB hard drive of the 360 when it first came out, the 8 MB on the Wii 2 seems very negligible. In my opinion, Nintendo is definitely making some good moves, I believe that they're moving very slow. So slow that not only has it's hardware been lacking, but also its software (with its relative demographic becoming more closely aligned with younger gamers) is severely lacking compared to the more solid and more edgy titles from Microsoft and Sony.

However, I believe the REAL problem here is how comfortable Nintendo has become in terms of its status over the years. Ever since the NES came out in the 80s, Nintendo has proven to be superior time and again to organizations such as Sega; but time flows like a river, and while newer and more creative companies go with the flow, it seems that Nintendo is traveling against the flow by sticking to its old methods and not willing to change in order to be successful. Let's hope that Nintendo has some aces in the hole which it can exploit to put its competitors off-tilt; I can't keep championing the organization that has been the staple of my childhood if there's nothing I can invest in.