I'm beginning to think that Nikon users are like Philadelphia sports fans: they'll boo at anything less than perfect.
The longer the space between Nikon camera announcements, the more those boo birds come out and start hitting the Internet forums with "what's Nikon up to?" and "Nikon better do X" posts. Let's differentiate the boo birds from reality for a moment.
In the professional lineup, the D3s stands at the top of the high performance DSLRs, the D3x at the top of the high resolution DSLRs. Period. No doubts about it, and sales records show that Nikon has taken the lead from Canon in pro sales. This is not to say Canon cameras are bad, by the way, only that Nikon is producing arguably better pro equipment in terms of image quality at the moment. There were times when it was the other way around and there will be times in the future when that's true, too. But today--a day in which there are many posts claiming that Nikon needs a D4 today to compete--Nikon has a clear hold on the top spot. Wanting more sooner is just greedy and ignoring current reality, IMHO.
Here's where I'll likely start to get hammered with comments: most consumers really don't need more than the D5000/D90/D300s 12mp they've got now. We'll get the D90 replacement soon, too, and that will answer some of the (mostly unwarranted) concerns some have. I mean, be realistic: does a D300s take bad pictures? Worse pictures than a Canon 50D/7D? Do you really need 18mp, or do you just have pixel envy? We need to replace the consume, consume, consume mantra with photograph, photograph, photograph.
But most of the "noise" about Nikon's "failure" is centered in one arena: the 5DII. Worse still, most of that "failure" is specific to one feature: video. Meanwhile, the D700 continues to sell well, and in terms of build quality and features, it's arguably a better camera. Difficult to see how Nikon has failed there, as they're not a video company and they're likely to address some of the issues shortly.
I find most of the complaints about Nikon's current products fall under Consumption Addiction. Meanwhile, Nikon's sales, service, and support practices are in dire need of rework. If you want to complain about something, complain about current products not available for purchase, the inability to distinguish which used products might or might not be repaired by NikonUSA, and the fact that no one at NikonUSA seems to know what a telephone is or has a published email address.
So boo the lack of new products if you want to, but I won't be booing with you. I'll be on the field taking pictures.