Wii's sole devotion to motion controls was both daring and ingenious. It connected Wii to an audience that would have never considered getting a games console.
I think Sony's cockfight with MS also helped Wii as the PS2 was the undisputed ruler of casual / shovelware crap, and that helped it achieve sales five times greater than Xbox. So why Sony would purposely snub that market to singlemindedly pursue's MS 24m gamers (as Xbox's install base) instead of holding onto it's own expansive base is beyond me. But that market left Sony for Nintendo en masse as a result. I'm sure a lot of 'core' Sony fans are fine with that, until they see the huge PS3 losses and 3rd place finish that it resulted in.
At any rate, a fantastic article! Perhaps one of the best game-related articles I've ever seen. I learned a lot and I've followed Wii very closely since E3'06. Amazing to think MS/Sony let that oppurtunity slip through their fingers, but at that time, they only saw the dedicated gamer and no one else.
I'd also heard Nintendo copied Xavix (www.xavix.com) which released a Wii-like console in Japan in 2004 but this indicates Nintendo had bought the motion-tech prior to Xavix's launch.
Wii had it's amazing highs and lately it's miserable lows, but history will remember it as being the console that brought gaming mainstream.
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