The rising concern amongst Wii owners and Nintendo, as to the lack of sales, has become big issue ever since Iwata released Nintendo's heavy six-month fiscal losses.This is all conjecture, but if Nintendo continues this trend of casual over hardcore for much longer they will suffer greatly. Their fans have called out for a new Wii Starfox, Donkey Kong, Kid Iccarus, Earthbound, Luigi's Mansion (or similar spin-off), and many others. Yet Nintendo is focusing on Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and several DDR and Guitar Heroesque party games that do little for their hardcore base of gamers. They were more interested in re-releasing Gamecube games like DK Jungle Beat, and Pikmin 1 than they were about making a new DK or Pikmin game. Iwata and Nintendo's direction for the Wii worked to capture new audiences, and in return alienated lot of it's oldschool fans. The DS has fared far better as a result of it's innovation and it's excellent 1st and 3rd party catalog of games. It contains a lot of the Wii's charm and has also gathered many more casual gamers, but has not abandoned it's loyalist or hardcore fans. I personally would buy a Wii tomorrow if Nintendo made a 3rd Pilotwings game, and pulled it off as well as Pilotwings 64. Unfortunately, Iwata and the staff at Nintendo seem far too interested in having Link or Mario do things to even consider the implications of redeeming an old project. I don't believe this will end Nintendo, not even by a long shot, but the N64 and Gamecube sauntered behind the PSOne and PS2, and the Wii may just follow the same fate from this point on. If this continues into a fourth generation then Nintendo may have to step back and make Gameboy's and DS' for a while to come.