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Originally Posted by Kaika
I don't think the point was that nobody really wants to play online, it's that all games should allow for you to play multiplayer with your friends offline because it's fun and it's the reason why those games are top-sellers. Like it or not, it's what Joe Schmoe the casual player likes a lot, and if casual players didn't make up the majority of sales then really, Nintendo should have lost this generation's console wars.
but other then that I agree with you 
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Nintendo did not so much win the console wars as they simply left and went to a different battlefield altogether. Nothing wrong with that, frankly its the smartest thing they have ever done and they deserve every ounce of their success for making a great decision.
I would argue that Wii has no direct competitor, which has given them a huge untapped casual/housewife/elderly/kiddie gamer to buy and play their little games. Here is a little secret, Nintendo is still basically a game developer that uses Wii( gamecube, NES, N64) as an exclusive chanel to market their games.
I have often fiercely debated this on Hardcore game forums, but I will make the contention that Wii took very few sales away from either PS3 or Xbox 360. Rather the majority of Wii buyers are either first-timers, long time Nintendo fans, who would never buy anything else, people who wanted a safe family system, or have not played games since the days of Atari. So rather than taking a bigger slice of the console pie, Nintendo made the pie bigger, which is a great thing.
In my opinion a lot of Wiis will be nothing more than paper weights by this time next year, because for many, the novelty has worn off. Others wanting a deeper experiance will trade in for Xbox 360 or PS3. In fact Wii sales have plummeted in the last couple of months and PS3 sales have surged (price drop) I think it is in part because Wii misses out on games like Brutal Legend, Borderlands, Modern Warfare 2, Assasin's Creed 2, Halo ODST, Need for Speed Shift and many other high quality titles, Wii's selection of AAA titles is getting thin. Wiis one novel advantage, the Wiimote, is going to be lost in the few months as Sony and MS launch their own motion based control system. The PS wand (no actual name yet) is light years more advanced than the Wii-Mote and MS's NATAL works entirely by body movement.
I think by the end of this generation (2012-2013) we will see a rough parity between all of these systems and that will be fine. I think 3 is a good number for consoles and 3 it should remain.
So my Wiitards, worry not I am your fiercest defender on many a forum. So if I occasionally rib or poke you Wiitards on PC, it is because I love you guys, you are
MY Wiitards... LOL
