I've actually heard anecdotes where people picked up the Wii just for sports but bought and enjoyed ZELDA, of all things, suggesting that, yes, new gamers CAN be swayed into playing hardcore games.
What this guy also doesn't realize is that getting the console into the homes of people who previously never bought consoles is half the fight.
What are the odds of a non-gamer becoming a gamer? I don't know, but I DO know that they're 1,000% better if that non-gamer actually owns a console and if Wii Sports got them to that point, so be it.
Also, the whole issue of "Oh noes! They won't make hardcore games anymore!!!!" is pure BS. As long as people keep buying them, someone will keep making them. Markets never go untapped for long.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
