The previous posters have nailed it that Nintendo went after an untapped market and found success.
Just to add one thing... as a casual games myself, I like to be able to pick up a game and have fun playing even if I only want to spend 30 minutes at a time and possibly not total more than a few hours in a week or even a month.
The games you talk about (in the quoted post) are not the type of game that is fun if you play sporadically every so often especially if you havent played other similar games or other games in the series.
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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
I am a long time video game player (I have basically every console almost ever). The Wii is basically pretty bad. I have played mine a little bit, but honestly, there just are not that many games for it. And those games that do exist? They kinda suck. That is the truth. My wife bought me it, but I have been tempted to dump it. There is no good hockey, shooters or great RPGs. In fact, there just isn't a game worth getting the system for. I doubt I have played more than three hours on any game for the system. The 360's Call of Duty 4, I logged well over 100 hours on the on line component. And recently I have logged in about 30 hours in the PS3's Fallout 3.
Aiming those Wii controllers as well is really annoying and hurts my wrists. I prefer to be really lazy when I play a video game. And before anyone starts, I have a pretty serious job, work out at least once a day and am very married. My wife just goes to bed really early (she likes sleeping A LOT), so I prefer a game to TV.
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