The 360's weakness is now its strength

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@MikeB: At the time the PS3 slimline arrives, there may be a big overlap between Wii and PS3. You seem to make assumption that the current "camps" hold. Wii is different from 360, Wii has the best 1st party support, while 360 has the worst. There's a reason why Nintendo published almost every game to diffent genre, it's because they want to create a diverse library. Not the best way to make profit in a short term, but priceless in the long run. So every new genre for Wii, that Nintendo makes, they create an installbase for 3rd parties games. And after all, it takes only one few games to prove their sales, and the shooters and racing games start to flow to Wii.
But if we talk about the current situation, which may take a year or two to change, then you're absolutely right.

I don't actually think that survey was unexpected, good find anyway, since ages 25-34 people are setting steady and start to have families, which limits the amount of time in pubs/nightclubs, so you need to have something else to do. Movies don't provide content as much as games and it also is something you can do with your kids, just like play football in summer and ice hockey in winter.
Also a lot of people in that group are lapsed gamers, who played games as a kid and have interested in gaming again.
When the 16-24 group is a lot of singles, couples, students, who have also a lot of other activies besides gaming, which don't keep them home playing games.
Anyway, i think the agegroups were too big, it would have been better to have groups 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34. I didn't read the survey, i just read what you posted about it.

@Bod: It's weakness is it's strength in short term, but will hurt it in long term. I'd say M$ really needs to get the 360 library more varied/more diverse, since after Wii hits 10M gap and the genres 360 has, 360 will not be a viable option for Wii, neither to gamers nor developers. And that means less sales->less profit in the future, so the aspect is not just competing in market share, but ability to make profit.