I (unfortunetely) got stuck with a Playstation 3 and also bought a Wii at launch. I've been gaming and playing popular + obscure stuff on all platforms since Atari.
Nintendo is suceeding now because it went back to what it started on (and what originally made videogames fun AND popular): simplicity.
People who whine that "Wii is only for casuals" don't seem to be remembering history at all, just 20 years ago. Kids and adults bought the NES, just like now with Wii, because it was simple, fun, user-friendly and accessible.
There's nothing inherently wrong with complicated controls and 40-hr games, but some gamers assume that because it's hard to learn a game and it was expensive to produce, it's more worthy of your $$ or something.
Most PS360 games now are trying to be movies -- lavish, high production value, formulaic, linear. That just doesn't appeal to me, and I think it was the wrong direction to emphasize for the powerful publishers, because obviously a lot of people agree with me.
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