If they try hard enough, the 'casuals' will become Nintendo's loyal fanbase for years to come.

A Wii music + with an improved library of songs and the ability to load midi tracks from an SD card to play with? Maybe, I would get that. Maybe.

How are people who bought the Wii as their first Nintendo or gaming system period loyal Nintendo fans?

Loyalty means loyalty not just picking up a system to play WiiFit. I am a loyal fan a fan who has bought every Nintendo system since the NES. I never bought a competitors platform, untill Nintendo said they were no longer competing with Microsoft or Sony. Then and only then did I buy my 360 and later PS3.

You can't be a loyal Nintendo fan after only three years their has been no test of your loyalty. As for wasting money on Super Smash Brothers. Smash Bros is a core Nintendo franchise that has been loyaly supported for three generations, the Wii series is a series of tech demo's that were adapted into games and sold at full retail prices.

WiiSports was created to show developers ways they could make Wii games, WiiMusic was developed because of the lack of big titles like RockBand and GuitarHero to show developers how they could use the WiiMote. WiiFit was created to showcase the potential of the Wii Balance board and WiiSportsResort was a tech demo built to showcase how developers could use WiiMotionPlus.

Do we really want more tech demo's or do we want actual games. Now don't start the argument that I haven't played WiiSportsResort or WiiFit because I have played SportsResort and hated the dang thing, I also own WiiFit. The fact is these tech demo's are alright but they aren't being developed for Nintendo's loyal fanbase (Those who buy Nintendo's console loyaly every generation) !

While there are at it make a Wii Play 2 too

id buy it.

Nintendo just released a 2D multiplayer Mario game. They are currently developing a sequel to this gens highest rated game, a new Metroid game that implements new and old gameplay styles, a sequel to Pikmin, and a new Zelda game.

I believe Nintendo is taking care of it's fanbase very well.

Depending on the upgrade (hoping for a much deeper and broader catalogue of songs, especially), I would seriously consider grabbing it.

Interesting how it only takes a mere mention of Wii Music for people to go apeshit. (no pun intended)

Ready to turn my hate switch any day now. Anyway if it had, nintendo games soundtrack this time around, it may not be as bad.

Wii Music type games have a lot of potential. But the first iteration offered boring music with poor sound quality, inadequate online and a controller that just wasn't up to the job for enough varied input methods.

There's definitely a future there.