In what ways is the Wii beneficial to the video game industry?

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Anytime you can expand the industry to include consumers who previously were not consumers or former consumers, that's a very, very good thing for the industry as a whole.

It provides many development studios an alternative to the high development costs of the PS3/X360 meaning more studios stay in business instead of closing down. Granted we've had a lot of closures anyway because they gambled on the big budgets.

Brought a new input method into the mainstream in the vein of the analog stick in 1996.