The Wii wil never get the kind of third party support that the PS2 had.

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@r4in: Except that NES did the same as Wi tries to doi; it stopped the videogames being geeky. NES was fun and could be enjoyed by the whole family. The only ones that had anything against it, were the kids who didn't get a NES. Once the accessibility of NES games went away next generation, videogames started going back to being geeky and kids stuff.

One of the major things Wii is doing, is trying to get the people back, who quit gaming after NES, basically this is the people who quit when the games went to 3D.

The "casual"/"hardcore" you used, pretty much describes what the 3rd parties think, and that's why they keep on failing on their Wii efforts.
And, you didn't define the core and the "hardcore" in your post, as you said you would.
Core is pretty easy, since it's the existing audience, the bread and butter of an industry. "Hardcore" is a little harder, since how it's used in the gaming forums, it seems to be meaning whatever people want to mean with it, but by judging how people who call themselves hardcore, are viewed outside, they are usually the ones that called as geeks.