This article touches on the 2 major claims we've been hearing almost constantly about the Wii since its launch: 1) The bubble will burst, 2) It's bad for the industry.
So far the arguments I've heard to back these up have ranged from the non-existent to the utterly absurd. It's pretty well too late for the bubble to burst, because the developer support is already entrenched. Every publisher is working furiously on a lineup of Wii games we'll start to see in 2008, and unless every one of them is garbage (which is unlikely based on statistics alone), the buyers will continue to come.
Meanwhile there's this fear that because publishers are making games for a casual audience, this will somehow diminish or eliminate all of the "hardcore" games, as though the industry is incapable of growing to accomodate both groups. Guess what: as long as you keep buying these kinds of games, companies will keep making them.
The author here does a good job of putting this all in perspective, but I think he might even give too much credit to this idea of a "Wii crash."
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