Again regarding the console wars, it's becoming increasingly clear to me that Nintendo is creating a buzz with Wii that Sony and Microsoft could only wish for. The first hand reports from E3, the annual festival of video games and related electronics, are almost universally in awe of the sheer fun and joy of playing with the Wii. And it's not just the innovative controls and new games, it's the library of older games available on the system from all the past Nintendo entries. I think I read it's got the TurboGrafx16 library available, to. I've always wanted to try out the Y's series.

The rumoured $250 price seems to strike peoples' fancy, too, mine included. Who wants to spend $800 for a system and a couple of games? Despite all this, the naysayers still feel the superior graphics will win out. Sometimes I think Sony and Microsoft have forgotten that games are supposed to be fun, like Monopoly, or throwing batteries off overpasses (I'm kidding. Seriously).

The other big point people mention is the multi-media capability of the other systems. The Sony PS3 is even going to have a blu-ray player. Proclomations of the added value of the blu-ray player and the $1000 initial price-point of standalone blu-ray players forget that only innovators and early adopters are going to be getting blu-ray in the first year or so anyway. We all got on the DVD train just a few years ago, and most people still don't have HDTV anyway. After a year or two, the price of a standalone blu-ray player will fall to the point where a lot more people will want them....

blah blah blah, gotta run, finish this another time