HikenNoAce said:
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"the days of the casuals" never existed. The Casuals are a myth perpetuated by the games industry and media (and by association, the Hardcore gamers who swallow all the propaganda hook line and sinker) used in order to segregate gamers into demographics and attempt to explain (as awell as to undermine) the Wii's success. There are no "casuals," there are simply people who play video games, and people who don't..
The myth became so repeated, so pounded into people's heads, that MS and Sony actually believed it to be true, which eventually led hem to create the failures that were the Move and Kinect.
The real reason for the Wii's success, I don't think any of us really know the whole story. Hell, even Nintendo doesn't seem to know, as proven by their lack of success with the Wii U.
But I think I can at least get close to the answer; the real root of the Wii's success lies in a return to gamings more simplistic, more fun, and more fast paced roots; roots that gaming has since strayed from with its complex control, and over-the-top cinematics and dialouge residing over core gameplay - Basically stripping away the extra "fluff," or the bullshit in games, as I prefer to call it. And while Nintendo themselves have strayed from those roots with the Wii U (hence the poor sales), I see them slowly but surely returning to those roots yet again with games like Mario Land 3D, Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros, Wii Fit U, Wii U Party, Wii Sports Club, etc..
