I think 3rd parties are realizing there are greener pastures on Nintendo's console right now. Why would they support a bunch of "hardcore" PS3/360 owners if they can only buy 14 million consoles total? The Wii has sold 10 million so far, and is on track to outsell the 360 + PS3 put together.

So, if each game on the Wii is cheaper to produce, and there is a bigger audience on the Wii, where will you develop your games? (Think PS1)

Northstar, there's really no word for that second to last post other than 'wrong'.

"I really don't see the guy that wants a PS3 or 360 saying nah i would rather get a Wii."

You see this a lot on message boards, among those who consider themselves 'hardcore gamers'. People project their preferences on to the market.

Face it - this is exactly what's happening. People are looking at the 360 and PS3 and saying, as you put it, 'nah'. There's no reason to think that virtually everyone buying a Wii is either a Gamecube owner or a new gamer, which is what this implies. I mean, come on - the thing has already almost matched the Gamecube in worldwide sales. Sure, Nintendo's expanding the market, but seriously. It's painfully obvious that people are buying a Wii who were traditionally Sony gamers.

The vast majority of consumers buy only one system every generation. What exactly has happened to all of the traditional early adopters if they haven't bought a Wii? Do you think that Nintendo is bringing in more new gamers than there are old gamers on every other system?

I don't know that anyone has hard numbers for this sort of thing, but I'm sure that almost everyone here can give you reams of anecdotal evidence.  Every single person I know who only owned a PS2 last generation has expressed absolutely no desire for the PS3 or 360, and many have nothing but good things to say about the Wii.

ok the thing is alot keep saying casual gamers boutthe ps2 is why it sold 140+ million units which in fact if you read closely to all the reports and comments about hte ps2 the first two years it was released you would see it wasnt the games at all it was the dvd player part of the ps2 that sold the units. i know 6 guys that has 2 ps2's and doenst play a single game on the systems they use it as a dvd player. id say bout 75% of the ps2's sold was just for the dvd player aspect. which if you notice game sales the majority of sales were only 100,000 units fora game with a user base or so called casual gamers wouldnt the majority of games sell well over 1 million apiece? this is what explains it. the wii hit the casual market but hit that market that the atari2600 was in a long time ago

 Its competing, the fact that I have a Wii makes it more likely that I will not buy a 360 or a PS3 this gen, in addition its competing for developer time and resources the better the Wii does, the less new games will be designed for the 360 and PS3

It's competing for the simple fact that developers must allocate their resources accordingly.