"the advice is to make a more expensive core game and advertise the hell out of it."
Um, the less expensive, casual games are getting diminishing returns. Call of Duty has been selling consistently over three games, with almost no marketing, and Monster Hunter 3 actually got marketing, and is getting marketing.
So make core series that art hits, and market them, is what to do with the Wii, just like the other systems.
And if someone made a kickass casual game for the 360, and marketed it, it would sell. Just barely any third parties know how to make kickass casual games (there are hits, but not the loads they were hoping for on the Nintendo systems).
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
