Is it?

Look at the salesnumbers of the Xbox360. How many core gamers do you think there are? Out of the PS2 (-+130 million)? A core game like GTA: SA sold like 15 million out of 130 million. How big would the core be? i would guess 40 million max? (It is impossible to get accurate numbers for it.)

By now, most of the core ones would already have a PS3. Those who don't probably by choice. They would have had a long time to save for it.

Remeber most people own only one console. This generation it might be a bit more then the last. But still mostly one console.

I suppose a "more buttons" controller may have been feasible: the Wii's doing a pretty good job of showing that exclusive controllers don't always fracture the userbase as much as we once thought (Balance Board, Motion+, etc.). It'd be counter to the very philosophy of the Wii though, soI can't really fault them for excluding that. It just seems to me that the Wiimote+nunchuck has enough buttons to get most jobs done.

Your example of Red Steel is a good one: if the developers had made the controls more like the other games you mentioned, a Dual Analogue controller wouldn't be necessary in the first place. Even replacing the sword with a button would be counter-productive: leaving aside how most folks only cared about the game because they got to swing their controller around like a sword, replacing those actions with a button or two would lead to canned actions that can also be done with motion controls. Basically, there's no gain there.

Do not forget the portables in your equation. Those systems have great games that should not be missed.

People aren't "sensitive" about it. It's just WRONG.

And what people are upset about, is that ONCE AGAIN THE GAMING MEDIA REVEALS IT'S TRUE FEELINGS ABOUT THE WII. This is stuff that people who are Nintendo fans have been clamoring about for the last half-decade, and was dismissed by all the fans of the other consoles. Now it's out on the table, and we're just supposed to be happy that he has an opinion.

The gaming outlets should NOT be voicing opinions on things like this, as they SHOULD be trying to be fair and impartial as mediators of gaming and reviewing products. If you know that a reviewer hates sci-fi, would you ever want to hear what they have to say about the latest sci-fi release? 

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'So much promise. So little of it actually delivered.'.

This.

It's pretty poor that arguably the most creative, unique, and original Wii experience is Wii Fit.

Very few third parties have the balls to try and give us anything new, despite Nintendo claiming that the platform is a haven for experimentation due to the so called low dev costs. Then Nintendo contradict themselves by churning out endless sequels to established franchises.

The platform has become a contradiction as the casuals aren't interested in creativity, and the 'gamer' audience simply isn't there.

Exactly, Rol. And some 3rd party games do support both control schemes, such as the Dragonball Z games, the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and so forth.

But really, Red Steel is still better than any dual analogue control in an fps. I'd take Red Steel controls or a pc over dual analogue's best-it-could-do any day.

The gamer audience is there. Don't delude yourself. Most polls show that 360 and PS3 owners also own a Wii.

And Nintendo would be stupid to not turn out sequels to franchises. The difference from the other companies being, that most of those sequels take direct advantage of the Wii's uniqueness.

And moreover, if an IGN editor posted an article entitled "No worthwhile PS3 games have released since 2007" or "No worthwhile 360 games have released since 2007," you can expect people would react just about the same as they do to this.

Ah, another rant at Nintendo and the Wii for the failings of 3rd parties.

Never gets old.

Well, that's not true. The last Wii game worth buying was in April 2008. The next one will be Galaxy 2 or Other M, whichever comes out first.