On thing I think which should be pointed out is that the number of users per system, user-demographic breakdown and the ratio of women using the system demonstrates that Nintendo's goal of making a product that every member of the household would use was amazingly successful. As a guess you could probably get the PS3 and XBox 360's demographic chart by removing 75% of all female gamers from Nintendo's chart and then removing gamers above a certain age (say 45).

People talk about videogames being the next form of mainstream entertainment alongside music, movies and television but they can never get there until every member of a household sees value in the product and uses it regularly ...

 Maybe but probably not soon. I need a rich BF.

 If you need a rich one for a Wii, I'd hate to see what you'd need for a PS3.  lol.

As long as he's handy in the bedroom I'm fine either way.

If that's the priority then do you really need two "Wiis?"

Cause only one of them plays Wii games, the other is a love adaptor, lol.

Define Wii games.  ^_^

Anything released published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Wii video game console.

Aw that takes the fun out of it.

Wouldn't surprise me, Happy. However, I do disagree with the idea that male and female gamers have largely identical tastes. It's stereotyping, but it's accurate stereotyping, to point out that girls are relatively less interested in more violent games and relatively more interested in exploration-oriented games. They tend to be less competitive and they tend to prefer environmental challenges to intelligent (that is, man vs an intelligence) challenges.

To take a rather simple example, look at two fantastic games on the same console - Mario 64 and Goldeneye. Does anyone really doubt that Mario 64 had a higher percentage of female owners than Goldeneye?

I'm not saying that female gamers don't respond to quality, and I agree that Barbie games are a result of a tremendous misunderstanding of their tastes, but there are always going to be games, even non-sexual ones, that we can sensibly speak of as targeting a male audience.

My personal understanding of this is that there are two types of games - those that appeal almost entirely to males and those that appeal to both sexes. Something like Mario 64 or Nintendogs is gender-neutral, though social factors could drive male gamers away from Nintendogs, while something like Goldeneye or Gears of War is really only going to be played by males. We don't yet have games that are more popular with women; this is mostly because men's interests go beyond women's primarily in competition, which is easy to build a game around, while women's go beyond men's mostly in social relations, which have only recently been a focus of games.