In general, the demographic most interested in the 3rd party big hitters would be the core demographic. It's pretty common to find people in that demographic with enough of an obsession for games to buy more than one console in a generation, but most of the core demographic multi platform gamers are buying the Wii to play Nintendo franchise games. They are the best reason to own a Wii since they are all exclusives.

While there has been the occasional gem like No More Heroes and Zack and Wiki, these have not been selling like Nintendo titles. To date, there haven't been any big 3rd party console sellers. Umbrella Chronicles was not a blockbuster, even though it sold respectably well and while RE4 was the best version of the game released to date thanks to the controls, it is still a budget priced port of a 2005 game.

But I'm still waiting patiently for good 3rd party exclusives to show up on the Wii. E3 should have some announcements, and there should already be some quality projects with a good development team on board in progress as of this moment, but until then, the Wii just isn't the console of choice for anything not published by Nintendo.

I play all three systems and could care less who is on top. I stumbled across this post on a search engine and thought there is an odd thing that someone is hoisting a gaming copany on thier shoulders and pointing at others for doing the same.

The problem here is the WII is an entirely different type of device with an entirely different audience. I do not play the same kind of games I do on my WII as I do my ps3 and 360. They are for different people. Someone could enjoy these varieties and that is a great thing, but they are not the same.

Also, if you wanted to be as fair as your trying to be, you may have to look at this as HD devices vs Standard def devices, because after all the HD market is split while Standard(WII) is not and you have nothing vested in a specific company, so you have no need to say its head on head competition for specific companies. Looking at those numbers, HD gamings is well ahead as far as consoles sold.

Be glad we have choices, because without the WII we wouldn't have the motion gaming simple kid like titles and visuals and without the PS3 and 360, we don't have the amazing looking HD visuals on mature titles.

Something for everybody, but the numbers do show that the mature gamers are still more numerous.

Uh, i think you're wrong here!

You have to count IPhone/Pad/Pod and probably DS owners to the Wii owners, if you want to estimate the number of casual players. Than add the PSPs to Ps360s and you get what?

Casuals>>>>>>hardcorz

But honestly, it's not that easy. Wii/DS owners won't call themselves all casuals.

And a "mature gamer" is what?

Playing FPS? Most of these are obv kids or teens, or not?

This gen is the best ever for crow serving !

Someone should make a thread pointing out the hypocrisy of Wii owners.

Someone else should make a thread pointing out the hypocrisy of 360 owners.

Then someone else should make a thread pointing out the hypocrisy of PS3 owners.

Then we can all come together and laugh and point at each others hypocrisy. Oh what a grand time that would be.

And the prize for the faux-pas word of this gen goes to: *surprise* *surprise*

"CASUAL GAMER"

Here we can start to beat each other, until we all get banned.

lol

wait a minute... people say that?  last time i checked it was Sony and Nintendo are the biggest rivals, what did Microsoft do to cause a rivalry? Nothing

http://e-mpire.com/blogs/1215-Pithy-Insights

Hypocrisy for all 3 in individual entries.

And this thread is old.  That Whawha guy necro'd it.