The Wii appeals to a much wider audience, and people who wouldn't even have considered gaming before the Wii are playing all these games that you have mentioned. I admit, they aren't entirely video games, they serve another purpose. But this is the reason why people are buying them. Wii have made video games not only fun, but to actually give you a reason to play them. It is very annoying that they haven't really brought out any new, serious games, still sticking to the likes of Legend of Zelda and Super Mario (which are brilliant, by the way). But its blatently obvious that Nintendo is going for games which can be played in a group, not just on your own, which I think makes it more fun for those that wouldn't even have bothered with gaming. I don't think they're destroying the game industry. Serious games will sell to the same people who have always bought them, and its been proved that the likes of Halo and GTA still sell loads of copies to compete with the Wii. Nintendo have been smart and developed a much broader range of games available to anyone. They aren't destroying the industry. They're just giving the people what they want.
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