Now that I have a Wii I actually dislike what it has done even more. Sure we have some fun with it, but the truth of the matter is the Wii should have simply been a new controller for existing systems. Motion control is all that came in the box. We have WiiFit as well and my wife enjoys it, but again it is the board not the Wii console that made it possible.
Fact of the matter the console itself is a downgrade in this generation. The controls are new the console is old. That has an effect on the games developed on the other consoles because of the high sales of the Wii. Some people moan and groan about the use of CGI in movies over minitures for a great deal of special effects. How would the artists and special effect houses do things if all of a sudden they were told well to support the dominant movie theaters you need to go back in time and stop using the technology now available to you. I feel the Wii does that to developers. As a software developer myself and manager of developers I hate and my team hate to work on things that are legacy. The Wii console to many game developers is legacy.
As for crashing the industry I feel that it is more possible that the Wii will cause a crash rather than stop a crash. I worked for a retailer when the industry crashed in the early 80's and the reason was dumping of crap software on the market. Well the Wii is the console that is getting crap software dumped on it. The Wii is the console that has software sold at the checkout lines at Target, Walmart,etc. for $10-$20 bucks. What happened was in the early 80's this became the norm and bam all of a sudden people stopped buying the crap and the good stuff suffered as well.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
