I agree with you on most things, except for the UI. I thought, and still think, the 360's UI is a convoluted, unintuitive, cluttered mess. That doesn't stop me from liking the system; it just takes me about ten times as long to figure out how to do something new as it does on my Wii.
In other words, I don't understand how you could find the 360's interface to be easier to navigate than the Wii's channel system. I mean, Wii channels are basically designed to be navigatable by your average non-gamer; they're the simplest thing around, and - IMO - the most elegant UI this generation.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
