While most Wii fiends are in depression stage right now, you are still in denial.

The Wii was never and never will be a substitute to PS2 despite what you want to believe to soothe your bruised mind.

The Wii sure enough doesn't want to be associated with PS2 and clearly is not, it's on yet another level. The substitute for PS2 you're searching for is the PS3.

People are not attracted by the wiimote either, that doesn't make sense and is plain wrong. People are attracted by a set of characteristics that all together make the whole Wii experience. That's why some will only use the balance board and want a Wii too, even if they never touched the wiimote.

Also, Nintendo executives don't care about stupid people that love to call their console casuals. The only thing they'll do is make sure that it stays in the little circle of haters, or disrupt the haters circle (videogame mags for example).

Notice how now Nintendo firmly stays by its principles of not announcing their games far before they're out. Notice also, that everytime they announced their Wii games, it was months of bashing in the circle of Wii haters, or they didn't talk about their game at all if they couldn't bash them. So it was negative for Nintendo. Now, the haters complain that they don't know the games are coming, but it's actually a positive.

I laughed soooo hard...

On topic, I see many more fanboys respecting the Wii. Up until now, it's been considered a joke of a console to many "hardcore" gamers (Refer to N4G.com). I think many will see that the Wii can have awesome games too.

^I agree. But I don't get the part about nintendo cereal system. I'll do some research.

It's not Nintendo who has to fill the gap on Wii, it's the third parties...

They were very slow at start, but just like with DS in its third and fourth year, they now can see Wii is a market leader, with a huge userbase, and last but not least, excellent profit margins...

Next step is to realize that just as DS, all kind of games may find their public on the console: not only platformers-puzzle-casual sports, but also RPGs, FPS, mature action, survival horror, and all the genres usually associated with core gamers...

We can see the first very good signs this year, but 2009/2010 will be the most important years in Wii's life, with way more "real" efforts by third parties, plus the usual Nintendo's 1st party greatness: it will be a nice mix, and just like with DS, i think Wii will have something for everyone, and way more 80+ and 90+ games...

So yes, Nintendo's future looks quite good, and the most dedicated third parties will also have a slice of that huge pie, whether it's on DS and/or Wii...

Of course, Nintendo is now so rich they could also buy some smaller devs to create more 2nd party games, especially mature core games, just the way they did with Retro or Monolith...

But i think they will not spend their money that way, they will instead make more and more deals with third parties to give them support and assistance, offer them unexpensive dev tools, publishing and promotion deals, to create good quality exclusive titles hand in hand... think Sega with the Mario and Sonic, Tecmo/Grasshopper with Fatal Frame 4, Rockstar with the future GTA's... you've got the idea...

future of Nintendo? they gonna replace "In God we trust" on US $ with "In Nintendo we trust"

Nintendos future looks really bright. Basically what makes Nintendos future look bright, is the adult themed games like Brain Training, Wii Sports, Wii Fit etc, along with many established traditional franchises like Mario, Zelda and Metroid.

Hey I´m talking here about perception, how the public sees the product and that matters. The ps2 wasn´t the most powerful console of it´s gen, it was, if anything the weakest, so the ps3 is not it´s substitute. The ps2 was sold as the console that everybody could have at home, that evertone could have fun with and that´s the role wii is performing rigth now.

And what set of caracteristics are you saying atract people?

The ones I can think are: Nintendo franchises, user friendly gameplay(wii remote, as the wii fit came after that, so the first burst of wii sales weren´t for the wii fit, but for the wii alone), inovative games that uses the new gameplay and that also enhances the group playing. Ah and the price, but that´s not an issue anymore as it was in the first year. And that´s why, in my opinion wii will win this gen. The thing is, you gotta admit that it came as a suprise in the first six months when the the wii started to sell  bigger and bigger numbers. If you catch the news at that time you´ll see. But analising latter permits to see how intelligent it was dettaching itself from the traditional gamming and inventing a new form of playing. What I said is: this new form of playing was percepted by most hardcores( exception made by the ones in this site) as too easy or as for kids, and that made them overlook the wii as a serious plataform. 

The wii is a serious plataform, meaning, it can play games for adults?

the answer is YES!!! The Conduit is only the most recent example, there´re many others. But look at their sales, except for Metroid and Zelda(if you consider this adult and not universal) all others have weak sales for a console with 32 mln users. The Madden is another example, the user base in the US is 12mln, bigger than x360 and more than twice the ps3 numbers, but yet sold less than all of them and will not sell as much as did last itteration. Why? Because the demo that buys madden don´t usually buys a wii, is statistical, is perception. The reason why Nintendo wants to change that perception is that the market is even bigger if you get at the same time the casuals and the cores and hardcores. That´s business. While the guy from MS addimit deafeat and said that his figth is with sony, Ninty wants to continue figthing and get the market that sony and MS still have.

Nintendo will keep on releasing games for five year olds and women over 40 and it will hope that 3rd parties will the games for the rest.