Agreed 100%, the distinction is worthless at this point. Maybe it should be casual/mainstream/hardcore

I think one thing OP is forgetting as far as Nintendo's success is how excellent the quality is. Nintendo, Valve, Blizzard, and I can't think of any other developers who actually work on a game until it is perfect and done and have insanely high standards.  In fact, Miyamoto is known for totally scrapping games and starting over from square 1 if it doesn't meet his quality standards.  In all 3 cases, the quality and control of their games are so far above everyone else's it should be a no brainer as to why they all sell so well.

Nintendo is pratically the only one publishing quality games to a large audience (casuals), that's why.

Let's copy nintendo yihaa. Copy dpad, controllers, famicom, sports game, motion control.... /sarcasm

even when everybody copies nintendo, they still don't get it right :b

Exactly. I gotta agree 100% with you.

Nintendo is (as much as I hate them now and used to be a HUGE fan) winning in all catagories but 1. And that is, there not gaining hardcore fans.

LOL. Yeah and lord knows they need these fans. Although what exactly is a hardcore fan? If you don't mind indulging me.

This has already been quoted multiple times, but it deserves another.

not the best analogy, only have to look at the top 50 grossing movies of all time to see how many action/scifi movies make the most money, seems to me the big hitters on wii are family/friend orientated, not a bad thing though, its obviously working.

And yes part of it is expanded but they also extend an invitation to gamers who have left the scene these were core gamers.

Core gamers is so lame.

It helps that nintendo has very little third party competition on the wii. People buy the system for wii sports, wii fit, etc. and ignore what few quality third party games there are.