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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4056140" data-attributes="member: 20741">I have a 15 year old daughter. She has a Wii at home with her mother and a Wii and a 360 to play with here.She does not play the Wii much when at home at her Mom's. (Yes, she has Guitar Hero III for the Wii at home).She does not play the Wii at here at all. She does, however, play the 360 all the time. Rock Band, in particular, for the 360 is her favorite, though she says she prefers the 360 version of Guitar Hero 2 and 3 here over the Wii version she has at home.She was playing Rock Band on the 360 until 5:50 am this morning. I was woken up by her singing and laughing.  I had to get all mean and force her to turn it off. (5:50 a.m., and I'm the bad guy?!!).Anyways - every kid is different. But as a Wii/360 household, I can tell you that the 360 gets daily use. The Wii is turned on every other month - if that. It's not even remotely a contest. (and yes, we have about 10 Wii games so it's not that.)The clear preference for the 360  applies to my much younger sons as well as my older daughters.  The Wii was a lot of fun when we got it over a year ago. We all played tennis and golf and bowling and it was a riot. But by the end of the Xmas holidays - that was largely it for the Wii. We went back to the 360 as our console of choice. Despite picking up many new games for the Wii over the course of time (I feel I need to stay in touch with the platform and what is available for it as part of my game development gig) the 360 is the clear favorite in my household. Whether that's age 8, 15, 18, 27 or 43; male or female.The Wii is a toy; the 360 is a game and home entertainment console. I think that the reason the Wii is succeeding in the marketplace is that among casual users, it has some buzz and it is - above all - cheaper.But the attach rate, the number of games that are purchased by owners of the major console systems? It's far and away the 360 that has the highest number of games owned per customer. People buy it - and they continue to buy games for it. I think that says it all.</blockquote>

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