The Wii is not dead or dying.

[nitekrawler1285]

padib said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

"It's important to grasp that the PS360 hits are of a totally different nature than those typical for Wii or DS in that they attract an entirely different audience; one that is not bent on "Raw Fun", but on sensationalist experiences (adult characters and real situations, compelling storylines, rich music, impressive fighting moves, possible blood, sex or gore)."

Are they really looking for that? I notice those games that focus more on that tend to not have legs. I think that's just what developers and the gaming press decide is the reason to justify how they feel about those things.

The audience for those systems just has a higher tolerance for those things, not that they want those things over raw fun.

Adding to what oniyide said.

The beauty of the balanced approach is that nintendo guarantees these sporadic hits (let alone those that have legs), all the while keeping the Mario Karts and the NSMBs, which have legs, to have the full market profile it vitally needs. It makes the Nintendo console truly a console for everyone, none descriminated (neither the adult, mature, hardcore, true gamer, fun gamer, kid gamer, old gamer, mom gamer, etc.). It then becomes more something like a DVD player. Those have movies for all tastes, none descriminated. That what I understand Cafe to be, that's what I believe it should be.

For it to be balanced Nintendo will have to make expanded audience games and they don't seem interested in doing so anymore.  If they were they could have been doing it on the Wii and it wouldn't be in the position it's in now and Nintendomination would be continueing.