Im struggling to argue against that. As are other people in the thread, as you can see by them laughing it off, insulting you or deflecting it.
Obviously the Wii non-gamer figures are pulled from your arse, but I can see you being rather close. Id estimate the core Nintendo fanbase at somewhere between 20-30 Million gamers. These are the people who will go out and buy a Nintendo console no matter what.
That said, Id also estimate the number of gamers who jumped on the Wii hype for motion controls, Wii Fit and party games would be in the 60-70 Million range. This could range from preschoolers to grandmas and grandpas. Mums who arent interested in videogames. "Red Ocean" gamers who picked one up so drunkenly play Wii Sports with friends.
Never forget these surveys done by Nintendo -
Nintendo lost a fuckton of people Gen over Gen at the same time as they went for the PS360 market with CoD, AC, Batman and so on. To deny that a gigantic portion of the Wii userbase was expanded market gamers is borderline idiotic and anyone on a sales website should know this.
That said, yes. The PS2 did have a large casual userbase, though at the same time it also had pretty much the entire "Red Ocean" market. It had the best of both Worlds, wheras the Wii had the best of the Blue Ocean and a minority in the Red Ocean.
