This whole Ubisoft thing, Capcoms recent silence regarding the wii and the fact that most games aimed at Core gamers seem to be PS360. Nintendo have made huge in roads this year in my opinion with the launch of the balance board where even if it was aimed at casuals with Wii Fit this is gonna cross over into the core games as we've already seen a lot of compatible games announced for it and I believe once a few more games are launched and Wii Fit demand is met - we'll see a stand alone Balance Board for sale.
We've also seen loads of online goodies thrown this year with WW roll out of DS channel, SSBB and MKWii both having comprehensive online modes, Wii Ware, announcement of DLC and MMO aimed pay to play.
These online new features and improvements will help core games as they offer better services and choices to third party devs but there's still things that could be done to make huge leaps to entice a wider range of core games. I noticed for example that the DS demo channel demos, videos were 90% Nintendo - should Nintendo offer a system where games critiqued AA or AAA somehow could get their own showcase reel on the Nintendo channel? or perhaps some VIP tagged devs could control their own material to be broadcast on there?
The big question is as well - with Wii Ware games taking up to 250 blocks storage is a massive problem and made more urgent, do we need a solution now before more core gamers will see the Wii as a system of choice or is this a non issue as Nintendo state?
To conclude - do Nintendo need to aim for core gamers a little more or keep the Wii very simple to keep snagging the casuals and allow the labels that the Ubisofts are attaching to the Wii to remain?
