Legend11, you bring up a good point and I for one appreciate your concern, but I think this time is different. Casual gamers have always been an after-thought. Well, actually, in Atari2600 days, and even to a degree NES days, there was no 'gamer' and 'casual gamer' groups, just people buying a game system.
This time though Nintendo is specifically targetting the non/lasped/casual gamer, while trying to maintain the core gamers too. Plus they have the advantage of having already tried and succeeded with this approach with the DS, having learn from those mistakes, and can now apply those lessons learned to the Wii. As long as Nintendo (and 3rd partys) keep coming out with games that casuals enjoy, casuals will continue to buy.
Where I fear you may be right is with the 360 specifically, and PS3 to a lessor extent, where they may attempt to snag some 'casuals' for themselves with Rock Star/Guitar Hero/Home/Scene It? (surpresses laugh... fails... Scene It? Is that the best they have??) but I doubt they can maintain those casual's interest as their systems from the ground up are really intented for hardcore gamers.
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