Install base is only unimportant if the install base has largely stopped buying games. Have you stopped buying games for the console(s) you own?

If yes, and you are representative of a majority of console owners then you have a point. If no, and like you console owners are still buying games then your observation has little merit.

No I don't remember Okami, but I have looked it up on this site just now. I suggest to you that by the time Okami was released on PS2 most of the 100 million owners were no longer very active in the new game purchasing market, and the current owners were being more choosey about their new game purchases, compared to earlier years in the PS2's lifecycle. In any case, Okami is not a very good example: unless you are getting your sales information from a source other than VGChartz, there are huge gaps in the sales data for both the Wii and PS2 versions. The buying pattern of console owners one year out from the next gen console being released is possibly very different from the buying pattern of console owners one or 2 year into the life of a next gen console.

 LOL. This...

Well actually Zelda too.

Lol @ Zelda and Metroid being HARDCORZE.

Core definitely. Hardcorz, hardly.

Isn't it amazing that Nintendo's classic franchises alone toast the combined efforts from Microsoft, Sony, Activision, EA, Take2 et al. Include Nintendo's newer titles and it's easy to see why Nintendo is the King of gaming.

As for story based games, buy a book. Nintendo is about gameplay not pretty looking, fairy tales.

to call WarioWare, Mario Party and even AC 'hardcore' games is simply a kick in the balls for every hardcore fans in the world.

I see the desperate attempt and making Wii seem "hardcore friendly", but this attempt is just as weak as Nintendo claiming "Wii music" is 'core'

And by the way, the Wii has a massive userbase advantage over the other two consoles.

Core not hardcore, remember.

No such thing as "hardcore".

I know the Wii has a bigger TOTAL (new and old gamers) userbase but the Wii's old school/core/"hardcore"/fanboys/classic userbase is still bigger than either HD console.

I might do this again but only with exclusives this time, that should be fun.

Their casual?  Since when?

Also lol at the term "hardcore."

You forgot many, my friend, but as one once said: "Ignorance is bliss" (if I say any more, I might get marked for trolling or flaming).

And I lol at all the anti-Nintendo peole denying what is hardcore and not.  Again as I said in the above post, a desperate attempt to try and put down titles that aren't on their systems.  Rather pathetic, but oh well, that's life =).

If you guys start cancelling out some of Nintendo's hardcore games(the OPs definition is games that were played only by people who played games b4 the wii came along),then you'd have 2 do the same for Sony & MS.Now,rewrite that list that way and see it'll only be worse for you.Saying Warioware isn't hardcore is like saying Guitar Hero isn't hardcore.....

Just bcuz casual people might like it also doesn't mean its not hardcore.I mean,look @ Mario Kart,Little Big Planet,The Sims and Super Mario Bros.