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When I first looked at this, I thought "Huh, this is interesting, it'd be a tough decision." But now I've thought about it, I'd get the Wii over Kinect/Move for a few reasons.

Price: I'm a student with no part time job, and price is an important factor. You can get Wii for as little as £130 (Motion plus bundle) with another game-I've even seen it bundled with stuff like Brawl or NSMB Wii at that price. If I wasn't already a Wii owner, one of those bundles would be damn good value compared to the entry price for Move/Kinect with their respective console.

Available Software: The Wii has built up a strong library that has a number of titles that appeal to me-as far as I'm concerned, this is another big advantage over Move/Kinect. Wii has established games that utilise its motion control, and with the two Galaxy games, the various Metroid titles,  the No More Heroes games, ports like Twilight Princess, Okami and Resident Evil 4, Little King's Story, Mario Kart Wii, WarioWare, there's a library of great games available that use motion and pointer control to varying degrees. Which leads me on to...

Future Software: This is where Move became a little more appealing, as Sony seem to be doing their best to compile a balanced line up, but there are no must haves for me there. Kinect really turns me off at this point-I may have enjoyed the Wii series of games somewhat, but stuff like Kinect Adventures, Kinectimals and now even Brain Training have me thinking this is a Wii-Too software library using ideas that are up to 5 years old, and dressing them in something a little new. There isn't anything that appeals to me as a long time, solitary gamer. However, on Wii, there's the more balanced upcoming line up of Donkey Kong, Epic Mickey, Skyward Sword (which is Motion Plus heavy), Kirby and there's the surprisingly good looking Wii Party if I want a social game. 

The fact is, Wii is a motion control machine from the get go, and Kinect and Move are going to be playing catch up for some time. The way I see it, the Wii has too many advantages in price and software for the other two to be viable options to me if I were in the market for a new console.