The camera and touch pad may just be part of Nintendo's apparent policy of "if our console isn't going to be that great, we'll win the masses over with nifty gadgets".
Good examples include the DS series and the Wii before motion controllers became "normal".
Although they'd clinch it if they made a top-of-the-line console with more powerful hardware than the current generation AND nifty gadgets.
Although the DS didn't really make that much use out of the touch pad...
Maybe they decided it was time to start competing. The game industry has been growing. As for cameras and touch pads-I don't know...Maybe they could add Wii accounts and smart face recognition log-on. It would also be a sweet feature to enable Gc compatibility.
Well, it will be something to watch, wait and see.
Specs aren't everything, and since the Wii outsold the others buy a huge margin it's hard to argue.
Thorn