User blog comment:Radical M/New Nintendo Console/@comment-1398015-20110608172241/@comment-1046241-20110611194549

Totally random thing. The Wii outsold the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 in the U.S. too, I thought though the Xbox and Wii were very close. It's hard not to be biased in this sort of thing, but I consider myself a "hardcore" gamer in that I can and do spend multiple hours a day playing video games.

That being said, I have found that there's nothing new in the systems, particularly the Xbox 360 (I own all consoles & handhelds this generation), and after 4 years (5 for the Xbox), the Wii (and PSP) are the only systems I still play. I've never been the greatest fan of FPS games, and to me, that's all that are being innovated on these systems. RPGs run together, especially if the only improvements are in graphics. The "hardcore" systems seem to make no attempt to improve games of any other genre, and I think Nintendo (and the 3rd party developers for the Wii games) stick to what the console can do.

There's a dichotomy there, as the Wii sticks to games that appeal to people like me, and so it's really hard to be unbiased. I agree with you though, that a lack of major improvements in graphics does not exactly constitute laziness. Improving a processor and thus, improving graphics capabilities is much easier than motion control, and unless you count things like Eyetoy (which was pretty horrible, now that I think about it), there was no other stab at it before Nintendo did it pretty successfully.

I looked at IGN's PS3 list and I found... Half of the top 25 to be shooters, and four more to be action/adventure games with shooter elements (e.g. Grand Theft Auto). Three game on the list appealed to me (though I own four of them on the list, I only finished one).