Nintendo's move 'away from the hardcore' cited in N-Revolution mag's closure

I can understand Nintendo's logic with turning to a more casual audience. By focusing on casual games, someone can make a relatively large amount of money in a short amount of time with minimal investment or development (you can use a Gamecube devkit to make Wii games, after all). However, this new focus is coming at the expense of the "core" market. There in lies the problem, and it's also why I don't agree with focusing almost exclusively on the casual audience.

A lot of people on here are quick to dismiss the "core" audience as a group of unsatisfiable, selfish whiners who demand they should be the only market catered to. They seem to forget that the "core" audience they demean were essentially the only group of people that bought Gamecubes. Casual gamers overwhelming rejected Nintendo's previous endeavor in favor of the PS2 and a large number of hardcore gamers migrated to the Xbox. Without the "core" gamer, Nintendo probably would've been forced to exit the console business last generation (after all , no one else was buying their system).

So, it becomes quite understandable when a "core" gamer expresses his/her discontent when he or she is not getting a good return on his/her $250.00 investment; they didn't support Nintendo last generation only to be given the cold shoulder this one. I know I bought a Wii for games like SSBB, No More Heroes, and Metroid; I didn't buy it so Nintendo and its third parties could pump out inane crap like Wii Music or Cooking Mama. This Wii's become a gimmicky toy that also happens to play games and that's not the reason why I (or people like me) purchase one.

I know someone's bound to come on here after me and say, "Well, we got all of our games early and Nintendo said they'll refocus soon." Sorry, having five good titles released in two years doesn't justify a Wii purchase. Having to endure six month droughts or waiting for a few years for a worthwhile purchase also doesn't justify a Wii purchase.

I still have my Wii because I hope things will change. However, until that happens, I'll be playing most of my games on the other two systems and my PC. Before anyone asks, yes, it is Crysis-capable; I play with visuals that are better than what Very High offers (CCC 2.21 is a wonderful thing) at 1600x1200 at 30-35 FPS.

It was fine up until "2009 is laughable"

2009 is golden.

I agree with both of those comments. I see no reason to vehemently defend consoles when there's no law against owning more than one. At the same time, I can understand those that are irritated by the bulk of the games on the Wii. A little heads up would have been nice.