This is just the typical Nintendo business model. Release something, wait until lots of people buy it, and then release the "better" edition, forcing people to buy that also.
Gameboy Advance comes out as a purple, un-rechargeable, un-backlit kid toy. A bit later they come out with the SP, which is everything the Advance always should have been. Nintendo DS comes out, and then a while later out comes the DS Lite.
Now they are making people buy basically a hardware patch to make the Wii do what most people thought it would do from the start. Its a good business model, unless people start to catch on.
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