Hold your horses, bitter-boy. Where in that hype article, does Nintendo state that they are a next-gen console? This is a media outlet bringing facts down the table (not hype, because it is selling like hotcakes), and claiming it's next-gen because it's a new console, not Nintendo.
I don't ever recall Nintendo associating the Wii with next-gen. They've always said that they were a 'new-gen' or some crappy marketing term like that, because they know that the Wii itself isn't next-gen, and doesn't compare against the other two consoles in terms of raw power. So how are you being lied to by Nintendo?
And to be honest, you almost lost me when you were talking strickly about hardware, and dismissing games right off the bat. This whole thread should be primarily about the games associated with the platforms, not about whatever CPU's in whatever plastic box you're going to power up. That's always what's matters, what defines a platform, and the only reason that people don't think it matters early on in a new console cycle is that there aren't enough games to consider. And we all know that's it's a bit to early to judge any console based on that fact (save maybe for the 360, who is finally gearing up with a pretty good library).