Who would have thought that this article, or Spencer's comments could be used to console war? Regardless of who was first with motion technology, the Wii was something unheard of. Nintendo bet the farm on a low powered device with motion controls as the main driving feature. It was super ballsy. Fortunately for them it paid off big time. Both Sony and Microsoft are these huge conglomerates that don't rely on just gaming to survive, you would think either of them could afford to take risks. Nintendo is not a huge conglomerate. They have gaming, and that's it.
Of course, looking at the bigger picture, Nintendo has always been willing to take large risks or to go against the grain, sometimes with good results, and sometimes not. Virtual Boy anyone? How about the N64 sticking to cartridges in a world where games were getting huge and needed discs? Or the DS, with its weird hinged design and a touchpad/stylus? Even the Wii U was trying something new, it just failed to make a compelling gaming case for why you needed screens on your controllers. Then of course there is the Switch. Who had ever heard of or played a portable/home console hybrid before the Switch?
I may not play that many Nintendo games anymore, but I respect the hell out of them and how risk taking and new ideas seems to be in their DNA.