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@ Legend
One thing about gamers like you is that you are so emotionally attached to your VG hardware you are totally blinded in your views, thus what ever emotional garbage comes out your mouth is just sounds seriously biased. If we are to look at the Wii from an objective point of view especially 2 years after its release, we would know its a lot more than the motion controls or even wii sports thats selling the Wii. They are only part of the small picture.

I think the first thing it would have to do is abandon the idea of a "casual" gamer. Nintendo's apparently adopted the philosophy and terminology of the "core" and "expanded"  (note that they never use "hardcore" in their interviews or releases. Or at least, almost never, save for an occassional slip by an individual employee).

I know it seems superficial, but there's actually quite a bit of reasoning behind it. The "casual" moniker carries with it a lot of negative connotations of customer stupidity and creator superiority. Look at Epic Games'  or Harmonix's use of that term, for instance. Even Ubisoft, who relies on what they call the "casuals" have only recently began to think that it was a market worth putting effort into (their president admitted as much a few months back, when he assigned the Wii Petz game to an actually talented team. For once.)

This matters because it leads to a different take and perspective on your customer. Microsoft so far has treated the mass populace fairly superficially. Games meant to appeal to them, like Scene It! or In the Movies, are not made by their best teams at all. They're outsourced to C- and D- listers, and it shows. By contrast, Nintendo has its best working on games for the expanded audience, like EAD, because it has some respect for that groups' taste and intelligence.

But that would only mark the beginning for Microsoft. In addition to reassigning some of its top talent, it would have to work on its marketing, its image, its very approach to gaming, its ultimate goal, and more. I can continue, if you're interested, but I don't want to bore you if you think I've rambled on too long.

And of course, these are just my thoughts. They could be, and probably are, at least partially off.

Secondly, the Newton will be hampered by the fact that many if not most Xbox gamers wont have it. This is unlike the Wii remote which is included with every console. Take the balance board for example. Very few games at this stage utilise it, despite its userbase of 10 million. Why go for 10 million when you can make a game for 39 million?

I can only assume, sir, that you are not serious: after all, the Wii's library is almost entirely separate from that of its competitors, and will remain distinct for the lifetime of the consoles, and would remain distinct even if the Newton were released tomorrow.

You should be careful of your light-hearted larks, sir, some people may be offended.

Well they are building in house studios and a swee-eeet new campus over in Redmond.  I guess subsidizing will have its benefits on the E&ED Division.

If course I am serious. Other than those few first party games, every good game can be found (at least equivelant one) on 360 or maybe pc as better version. And yes, I don't consider minigame-collections as good games. :P

I've seen this claim made many times and I'm wondering, do you have anything at all to back it up?  Any studies that were done to basically say that 360 owners do not like motion controls?  Most of the problems that some have with the Wii is the underpowered hardware and many of the crap games that are on the system.  It's not about the motion controls which I've rarely seen 360 owners insult.