brannan

I think some people are reading too much into one particular case. This is just one person trying out the Wii, and is by no means indicative of all non-gamers. Everyone has different tastes no matter if they're gamers or not. My wife, for instance, plays Atari 800, Animal Crossing, Electroplankton, and The Sims. These may be obvious choices for a non-gamer; however, they show that Nintendo is targetting people like her quite well with some of its launch titles. A game like Wii Sports is not all that different from the simplicity of an Atari 800 game.

She, like the author of that article, is also drawn toward involved storylines in games, but she doesn't have the patience to learn the button controls. Instead, she won't let me play games like Resident Evil 4 unless she's beside me on the couch to witness every moment.

My dad used to play video games a lot during the 16 bit era (including executing combos in Street Fighter 2), but never quite grasped how to deal with the controls when everything went 3D. Everyone's different.