Wii sport is clearly challenging but not always in a good way. You are so limited on what you can do as well sometimes fighting the controls. No doubt driving without a wheel (Kinect) will be challenging yet that's not the type of challenge I want.

Why?

No Skill actually implies that you don't need to use your habilities. With Skill your dexterity actually matters.

In Wii Sports a Grandma can win against Federer.

they better make some good games for the next 5 yrs then

No not wii sports, its just a natural progression. We can talk about specific pieces of software or hardware but really it just has to do with acceptability. Look at movies and tv, they got more and more popular over time without any drastic change. There aren't "casual" or "downmarket" movies. It just became more and more present in peoples lives. Video games will do the same regardless of what software or anything else that happens. Every generation gets bigger not because of a specific thing, but because thats just how things go. Older people unaware of the media die and younger people more accustomed to it become more numerous, pass it to their children as a normal thing etc. If you think playstation or the wii or anything else has expanded gaming beyond the natural growth it would have seen than you are kidding yourself. 

No worries about that, MS always delivers in the game department.

1. Because the media loves a narrative. Those women playing games used to play stuff like the sims and now they play wii sports. No demographic got added in any substantial way. Old people? They don't play games.  There are a few examples here and there but they don't play in any significant numbers. 

2. They gave rise to the summer blockbuster, but until only recently Gone with the wind was the movie with the overall best ticket sales and most earned adjusted for inflation. 

3. True, but comic books ignored kids altogether. Games like Mario and Ratchet and Clank, LBP and kingdom hearts all appeal to younger audiences. You don't need to make dumb downed garbage to get kids attention- they aren't as stupid as a lot of business believe. 

4. I blame it on a surplus of brown console shooter games with no creativity or polish. Whatever your personal opinion may be games like halo, CoD, GoW, Killzone, devil may cry and the like prove that its ok to spend that kind of money as long as you make a quality game that stands out from its competitor in some way. And another argument against the high budget= bad for business thing is that a lot wii devs have gone under this gen same as HD devs. And for the same reasons. 

Five years? I don't think so. That seems like way too much time. I'm sure they will come out with something else for us to waste our money on before then.

Not exactly, there are always gonna be huge hits but that doesn't mean they are going to permanently expand the audience. In fact I could use it to prove that people jumping into a media can be a flash in the pan moment that doesn't leave it with any real growth. 

Microsoft is broadening the audience in a great way. The software behind Kinect will probably take a couple of years to be perfected, and until that moment I believe it will stretch the xbox360. 

But, there's nothing holding Microsoft back: making the xbox360 kinect a cheap casual console that lasts for 5 years, and add a hardcore console to their portfolio in two years. Ubisoft will develop for both.

What's your take on this?