A mix of all three, ofc.

Yes so what we should do is look at who is doing the studes and who is more reliable. For instance:

The American Psychological Association performed a review of the subject in 2010 and found that hostility related to video games affected a certain subset of children who possess the “perfect storm” of traits: neuroticism, low levels of agreeableness (or empathy), and low levels of conscientiousness.

“Violent video games are like peanut butter,” Christopher J. Ferguson, of Texas A&M International University said of that research. “They are harmless for the vast majority of kids but are harmful to a small minority with pre-existing personality or mental health problems.”

The American Psychological Association is way more reliable in a situation like this. Not to mention the recent goverment study that was done that lead to the same conclusion. Not to mention common sense. I mean seriously do people think so little of children that simply playing violent video games is going to make them violent. It's such a silly thing to think that are brains are that easy to manipulate. 

My preference, So I can bogart it.

The study in your link was made with 118 teenagers over a short time frame. The study in my link was made with 3,034 children ages 8 to 17 over a three-year period. Statistically my study is the better one.

 Also this thread is about kids and not about teenagers.

And lastly history shows already that brains are easy enough to manipulate:

Hitler youth or somalian child soldiers just to name two (extreme) examples.

Regular costs of the console are important too. If the kid wants to play online, then the parents will have to pay PS+ or Xbox Live for it, and not with the WiiU or a handheld. After four or five years, that is not a small amount of mone.

Will just have to agree to disagree your own study the scientist didn't even verify the level of violence in the games the kids jus told them. The whole study seemed lazy and phoned in.

Also of course you can manipulate the youth with real life events and parenting like that. I'm talking about manipulating kids with things they know are fake and aren't real. Your talking about hitler coming in and manipulating a starving and poor country that was desperate to blame anyone for all the trouble they were going through. Yes I agree that people in desperate situations like that can be manipulated.

You know the funniest thing about all these violence on TV/video game arguments? Violence on TV/video games keeps getting worse yet in the past 20 years gun violence has gone down

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/

Violence in general has gone down as well

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/

Yet people keep acting like it's the end of the world and want someone to blame. I can understand though people aren't used to having so much information being thrown at them from all over the world so violence seems like it's only going up.

LOL :)

The parents aren't informed decision makers, they aren't influencing the sale. They're just buying what their kids want. This poll only shows that children prefer the Wii U.

Isn't it also likely that the cheaper price of the Wii U is what is attracting parents?

My kid can spout out a thousand things she want for Christmas, but of course I ultimately decide what she gets, what I think is best for her. So sometimes she gets what she want's because it's MY preference. Also, I have a saying: "It's usually better I spend a little more on what you want as opposed to wasting money on something you don't."