Every major announcement Nintendo makes is met with this type of cynicism. The truth is that Nintendo is the only company who has the balls to try something new, and is willing to fail in order to bring gamers fun new experiences they couldn't have before. The fact that the Wii caused the competitors to react by incorporating motion controls into their games makes it pretty clear that we should expect to hear about Sony and Microsoft's amazing new touch-screen based controllers sometime in 2014.