With the Wii being the less powerful of the current console competition and not necessarily the inventor of motion controls in video gaming but the improviser of it seems to have "marketing the system" as one of the main reasons to its success a side from great games and intuitive gameplay mechanics.

Yep, that's the big whip they whip the competition with.

Nintendo never really invent something - that's not cheap to produce. They put together mainstream, affordable hardware.

they took motion controls, which already existed, but were expensive, hard to use, and niche, and made them an affordable, accesable, and main product.

and i thnik the wii's best marketing is the free word of mouth from people that own it or have played it before.

Better yet dude:

1 - Motion controls
2 - iPod-esque design
3 - lower console/controller/games price
4 - SD like the majorty of TVs when it launched

No, its not marketing, its the fact that the Wii is a new market disruption within gaming, Nintendo didn't have to invent motion controls, they just used it in an innovative manner with the right software which appealed to nonconsumers

It unfortunately is a weapon not everyone agrees to use.

This pretty much sums it up.

Hardly the main secret weapon. It's important, but more along the lines of making the system well known among the Blue Ocean: it doesn't matter what else you do if nobody knows you're doing it.

This is what third parties on the Wii don't seem to get. A decent number of games that initially flopped commercially are only just now starting to get a second wind, because people who didn't dismiss them on sight as Wii games are finally getting the word out. That still won't make them million-sellers, but it drives the point home: you can recruit new gamers of all kinds, even fratcore, from the blue ocean. You just have to be willing to engage them.

If people were paying attention to what was hot in regards to generating casual player interest and new players, they saw it was simple controls and also motion control were where the action was at.  Guitar Heroes and other games, like Dance Dance Revolution generated interest.  Nintendo capitalize on that, with a focus on breaking down barriers and increasing interest of new players.  They then put in games people can releate to, and went ways no one expected.  They also target a good price point.  This is Blue Ocean, and it worked.

Not sure exactly what marketing Nintendo did. Did "We want to play" represent brilliance?  The Wii looks like fun, and that is what counted for lots of people.

Well, yeah it's disruption....but the disruption was SIGNIFICANTLY fueled by the brilliant product positioning (ie marketing) of the system. That is indisputable IMO.