I think Wii sales are driven primarily by Wii Sports and the hardcore Nintendo fans who bought the Wii and showed it to all of their non-gaming friends and family who then immediately wanted one.
Nintendo basically used a Trojan Horse to get their system into households. As anyone knows, getting them to buy the system is the hard part. Selling them games after that is much easier.
But there are still plenty of reasons to own the system, whether you're a hardcore gamer or a casual gamer.
"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
