and what was innovative from 2001 (post SEGA?)
GC ? hw inferior to Xbox, using minidvd instead of dvd, no online
Wii ? hw similar to a PS2, lacking of online except a bunch of titles, waggling a remote is so innovative ? lol
WiiU ? the biggest pad since NeoGeo AES, you are forced to switch your attention from TV to pad just to follow what's happening, hw just above PS360
last innovative console from Nintendo was Famicom, SFC was inferior to MD (which launched 2 (two) years before!), N64 still supporting cartridges when all the world swtiched to CD a couple of years before, handheld side aftere Gameboy, a really great innovation, they made GB Color when other products were colors years before (Atari Lynx, Game Gear), GBA was intended as a SFC portable, but they forgot a couple of buttons... DS used 2 screens as G&W did 20 years before, resistitive touchscreen, 3DS used 3D which was abandoned after a couple of years
as I said, innovation / hardware / nintendo can't be put together in the same sentence since 1989