No matter what everyone says, Nintendo is making a ton of money on the WII (because they made money on console 1 they sold) and its selling very well

How is that peer pressure, I am 38 so peer pressure really dosent exhist at my age...lol  What I mean is they all go online and play say r62 on 360 I could buy a PS3 they wouldnt care just couldnt be able to play with them.  Also I borrow games from them so it helps if we have the same system.  Most of my friends own multiple to be honest, I notice though for Multiplayer games we all play the 360.  Just facors in to what you buy.

If you consider the definition for fad like "A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze." then you can easily consider all dominant consoles of their generation to have been fads ... The height of most console's popularity is only (about) 5 or 6 years, and after that a new system will come along and be adopted very rapidly and achieve similar heights of popularity.

Saying 'the Wii is a fad' as a negative towards the system only really demonstrates a misunderstanding of the gaming market and what a fad is.

Now, as for the calls about third party publishers 'commiting financial suicide' as Kenny put it ... what I think we have seen is many publishers are having difficulty adjusting to a market that did not turn out the way that they expected. Part of the problems they have is the difference in performance makes it difficult to switch the target platform of games mid development like they would have done in the past, and another part is that what makes for an interesting Wii game is different than what makes for an intersting PS3/XBox 360 game.

My point been what is it exactly.
Why would i want to keep fit on a console.
As I said originally it holds no interest for me as a gaming console.

btw my daughter got the wii for xmas.

I took the batteries out of the controller some weeks ago so they would'nt leak.

Thats how much the wii is used in my house.

It's a joke.

3 steps to make sure your doing the right thing.

Ads, coolness, peers.

Thats dosent bode well for me I got my daughter one for this christmas, I think she will like it

I still don't understand why people always argue PS3+360 vs. Wii...

And Tomb Raider is on Wii, too. 

And I'll pass on those games you listed in favor of de Blob and Tales of Symphonia. Nintendo is not the only developer for the Wii. People should stop going by E3...

You should bring your Wii and your daughter to Gamestop and trade it in and let her buy five to ten games for another console then, and then somebody else who is dying to get one can.

@Xen: US isn't the only market (exept for 360 it soon starts to look it is), but the point was, where you made the price comment, that the sales difference isn't because of the price, since other markets prove that the 2 consoles that are more expensive sell better.

I would (generally) ignore comments like that on web forums ...

They are part of the paradox where every "Hard-Core" Wii owner isn't buying games and their Wii system is collecting dust, while "Casual" gamers never buy games and only play Wii Sports, yet the Wii is selling (roughly) as much software per system-month as the XBox 360/PS3 are. I'm not saying that these people are lying about what they see, but I do believe that their experience is not representitive of the market as a whole; quite possibly reask's problem is that he didn't buy games that really interested his daughter.