one former labmate of mine came from a lab (by "lab" i mean workstations rooms because we're theorists) (also, we're graduate students) whose advisor bought an xbox for the group so that "students can learn from the advance graphics techniques and apply on [for the graphical aspect of a program they develop]".
a few months later, the advisor sent out an email:
"... i'm disappointing that with so many people playing the XBOX that nobody has yet applied those ideas on our program..."
the Wii is an epidemic.