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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4632117" data-attributes="member: 20741">The "casual gamer"?I think that term is misused - and overused.  Often, so called hardcore gamers use it in a pejorative or dismissive manner, by which they mean to say "retarded games".As a buzzword, it is also being used to describe a Blue Ocean of previously untapped customers over which there has been no competition until very recently.  The phenomena of selling a Wii and a Wii Fit mat to people who heard of it in Yoga class, or selling Wii sports to seniors for Wii bowling and Wii golf -describes this latest buzzword use for "casual games".If you are buying and playing the games you describe, in the numbers you describe, you would not be a casual gamer as that term is currently used by marketers in the video game industry.  You would fall into the middle ground of "regular gamer", leaning to the hardcore edge of the spectrum, given the frequency of your game purchases.I think it would be far easier to go 360 (or PS3) and find platformer style games for your kids and wife, than the reverse for yourself on the Wii. I don't say that it's impossble, but it is a challenge to find good adult aimed titles on that platform.  Most modern adult titles are peing pitched for 360/PS3/PC.  Few in dev go the extra step for a multi-sku release to the Wii as the hardware downgrade is so critical that the game must be redesigned and rewritten from the ground up.  It does seem to be changing a bit, given the overall sales numbers for the Wii, but the climb is an uphill one to port a "traditional/modern" styled game to the Wii. I would think that either the 360 or PS3 would suit your overall game tastes and frequency of game purchases  far better than the Wii.  Since that's what you seemed to be getting at, that's my view.You have not mentioned if you have a Hi Def TV or plan to buy one in the next few years. If you do, that seals the deal. Do not get a Wii under those circumstances.</blockquote>

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