Strip away the marketing hype. If you want to know what kinds of people video game console makers are targeting, take a look at the kinds of games they play.
Let's see . . . The big games for GameCube are "Luigi's Mansion," "Super Smash Bros. Melee," "Animal Forest," and "Pikmin." You hear a lot about "Bio Hazard" and first-person perspective shooters coming to the console, but I get the feeling that Nintendo treasures its young audience.
PlayStation2 plays everything, including a smattering of kiddie games. Wrestling, driving, adventures, first-person perspective mosquito flight simulations, role-playing games . . .