Zucas is correct ...
I've seen the same type of behavior many times in my life, and (probably) the most memorable was watching the Junior Football team (when I was a senior) have a girl on their team. My sister began playing football nearly a decade before that and I thought that it would have been a non-issue by then. All the starters (and most of the players who got a decent ammount of play time) loved having her on the team, but the players who were "benched" said some of the nastiest things when she wasn't around ...
Personally, I'm a lot more worried about what would happen to the industry if the Wii wasn't successful. Microsoft and Sony have been following a fairly standard strategy of releasing (basically) the exact same product with "bonus" features, better technical specifications, and at a higher price ... The next step in this process is a $1000 console that you buy to play the exact same first person shooters, racing games, and sports simulations at a higher resolution with improved graphics.
Whether or not Sony and Microsoft would admit it to the outside world, the success of the Wii and Nintendo DS will have a dramatic impact on their strategy for the next generation; they may or may not adopt motion controls like the Wii did but they certainly will be thinking of more interesting user input devices; they will probably think of what is the processing power that is needed rather than attempting to push the limits without reason; and they will think of what the typical consumer is willing to pay rather than what the high end consumer can afford when pricing their console.
