Yeah, but you forgot to mention they play casual Smartphone games. Introduced to the concept by many games on the Wii and the NDS. You need to stop to revision history.

Sony, but not only for the reasons in the original post.

Sony was a main reason to shift the gaming industry from Nintendo / Sega vision of what gaming should be. Gaming is now seen as a kind of media consumption rather than a "waste of time".

Good point.

You're confusing adult who are gamers at core with adults who are casual gamers and only play Angry Birds.

Gaming has always been, and will always be, a mixture of both.

The funny thing is he made a double negative, so you weedlab are not not a stupid a fanboy :P

He insults you again!

@ AndrewWK No worries man! Weedlab knew what you meant! Also i like your sig, but I always have to quickly scroll through it when I am at work :P

OT: All three companies have done something for the industry but Nintendo obviously the most!

1 Billion+ smartphone users (With over 200 Million smartphone sales per quarter) vs 140 Million PS360 users. I think the "casual" smartphone gamers represent "anyone" better than the "hardcore" gamers.

I'm wondering if it really is Sony or not that was the main reason for the shift.  I honestly still hear many people say gaming is a waste of time.  I mean, at what point did people say it was a media consumption?  I would believe it was after the 16 bit era.  I'm not 100% sure, I'm just skeptical. 

You seem to be yapping on about that 'kid'-image Nintendo created.

Do you have any idea why that is? Any clue what happened for it to get that far? You should read up on some history yourself and start giving respect where respect is due.

Because I'm positive you won't actually read anything Nintendo related, here's a dumbed down lesson for you. Even if I'm probably just talking to a wall:

When third parties and Atari made so many low quality and bad games for the Atari 2600 that the industry collapsed because consumers were fed up, retailers did not want to stock anymore video-games or video-game related stuff on their store-shelves. A big problem for Nintendo, who saw an opportunity to expand into a rather large hole left by a lot of companies who left the industry altogether. Nintendo decided to take marketing of video-games into a different route. Instead of focussing on the 'nerdy' demographic or the tech-savy people like Atari and the other companies did during the what's now known as the 2nd generation of video-games, Nintendo came up with a way to market the new NES as a toy. Retailers were willing to sell something marketed as a toy. In a clever move, Nintendo created accessoiries to amplify that notion. Probably most famous, R.O.B. the robot. That's not a video-game, that's a toy with which you can play on your tv! Retailers would stock something like that. That's what saved the industry, that's why Nintendo got a 'kiddy'-image and more importantly, that's why you are able to play on your PlayStation today. A marketing technique that was born out of utter necessity.

Represent "anyone"? How can they represent a category that they're not part of?