Why everyone should root for the Wii

[Steve 3.2]

This post is so asking to be flamed...

Anyway, there are pluses and minuses to a Wii 'win'.  I believe many gamers are concerned that while more games may be produced, they will not be interested in them.  Back to your movie analogy for a second.  There are hundreds of movies produced a year, but many of them suck.  The same could happen with a game system that caters to the mainstream.  We've seen a bit of this happen on the Nintendo DS.  The success of Nintendogs and Brain Age brought out terrible copy cats.  If those titles did well (and thankfully most did not), we risk the possiblity of getting even more of those kind of titles and fewer and fewer 'games'.  On the other hand, a larger game audience creates more opportunities and greater acceptable of video games as a whole.  And the unique interfaces that Nintendo has pushed with the DS and Wii does open up the consoles to games that aren't as easily played on a regular controller and to  possible game players who were put off by all the buttons and such on today's controllers.

In general, we should be routing for all the systems to do well.  If any of the big three leave the console space, it could create a huge wave of consolidation that would ultimately decrease creativity and the number of games produced.