[BreakABone]

First on the movie analogy, it was actually what I was going for as I explained to Bond before making it, the movie industry runs opposite of the video-gaming one at the moment. The big budget, action movies are the more casual movies while the more intimate movies are dubbed "indies" So I know how the analogy works.

The basis of my point is yeah, there are tons of people who makes superhero/comic book movies but a lot of those bomb as well. Same with casual games... or any genre that becomes popular... there are tons of FPSes this generation, do you know how many fell by the wayside? Last gen with GTA clones, this gen with mini-game collections.

And through it all, people still make games for a broad spectrum of people.

And since you want more current examples I guess, Mario Party came out every year between 99 and like 2007, and in that time it was one of Nintendo's most popular franchises, but we still got the likes of 3 Smash Bros games, 2 Mario Karts, Mario Galaxy, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, 3 Metroid Primes, 2 Paper Marios.... etc etc

On the same hand, they launched lines like Animal Crossing and WarioWare, I think they realize it is all about balance, and I'm sure folks will point towards them not releasing much that isn't casual, but then you have to think they blew their wad early in the generation.

NEw Zelda, Mario and Metroid off the bat. They soon followed with Mario Kart and Smash Bros. They resurrected Punch-Out.

But somehow, we end up arguing in circles... as I said this isn't a Wii justification thread or validation or any of that crap. Its been 3 years, everyone has their opinion on the console.

I was just gauging if anyone here viewed the Wii as some in the media do. And maybe I should have laid out more proof than that IGN article, and as Bond noted maybe not place my personal opinions in the first post.

Simple gist of what I was going for, people see the Wii being popular as a sign that games won't ever be the same, and not for the better. I know some of you agree with that assertion, but why does it have to be that way?