I thought I better post here with Makka Pakka.
On topic: I think your post has been argued out of existence years ago. Just check out the Nintendo Channel stats for time played on games and look at the game attach rate.
It should also be mentioned that 'traditional' gamers were in a huge minority on PS2 as well. There aren't that many 'traditional' gamers unless you count the entire teen-20-something male audience. I don't. I see most of them as casual gamers. Today it will be MW2 and Halo, back in the SNES era it would have been Street Fighter 2 and Mario Kart. They may spend hundreds of hours on them, but they don't buy much else.
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