Having casual gameplay doesn't turns imediatly that game on casual. Zelda is an hardcore game, will ever be. If they can addapt it to casuals. Better. More sales to come.

Agree.

Why all the panic? I clearly understand it will be something similar to Phantom Hourglass. And why you think kids are casual gamers? They probably play more than all of us combined. Mario Galaxy too difficult for them? LOL, when we were kids we played and most of us finished Mario Bros, Zelda, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden... harder games than today standards, and kids today will do the same.

"Though it will again emerge as a core-centric industry"

And why do you think that, Sky Render?

Because that's how industries work. When an industry is disrupted, a new standard is introduced which ousts the previous industry standard. As the new standard becomes adopted, it develops a core following. This continues until the market hits a saturation point, at which point either the market is revitalized by a new generation of products (the most common response), or a new disruption occurs to shift the paradigm again. In the case of a generation change instead of a disruption, the core user base will grow as more of the previously new users become core users, but you will often also see a decrease in the rate of influx of new users as time goes by. There are many other considerations too, but these are the key points.

Nintendo isn't the only one gathering new gamers to existing franchises... They want to make the games so new players can join in.

I think you misunderstand.

Maybe i am interpretting this wrong.  But I think what he is saying is that he wants to make games like Zelda, which are hard for some players to grasp because of the multitude of buttons and combinations to press to play the game.  Maybe this has something to do with the 1:1 motion sensor for the WiiMotes?

But the actual game, and puzzles, will stay the same.  The challenge is there without needing to press A to use your sword and B to pull on the string etc....

I guess we'll see!

well... as others have said,

they took the same approach to SMG, and that turned out sort of okay, so don't worry so much, or should i say, try harder to ruffle the feathers in the nintendo forums shameless

Why are u surprised, they did the same thing with new mario bros & mario galaxy. Nobody likes playing games that they can't beat. What they are doing now is making games much easier to beat but if u want to be a completist (eg get all stars in galaxy) it is very difficult. There is nothing new here.

 Sorry, Wii Music looks awesome.

And jesus, every time Nintendo says something about it's audience in an interview, people start worrying that the sky is falling. They said the same thing about Mario Galaxy, a game THAT ANYBODY CAN PICK UP AND PLAY.

The end.

... but there great the way they are. ;-;