I remember when I first saw the new controller, I thought to myself..."WTF, Nintendo has really lost it. How the hell do I play with that?"

But when I tried to use it at E3 2006, the line for it was crazy. It started forming before the convention opened on each day. I never got to use it during E3, but judging from everyone's experience, I knew it was going to be market leader. That and the other consoles' prices were too high.

Yeah for some odd reason when they released the N64 and Gamecube...I thought it was the end...considering at the time they didn't have enough third parties to support and it wasn't nothing new...Now that they brought out the Wii..its considerably surprising that Nintendo is serious about the gaming world...and they are targeting a important market which is the casual market very well!!!

But didn't you have 4 kids...

<.<'

I never thought that Nintendo would drop out of the console race, but then again, I never thought that Sega or Atari would, either.

I thought they were going to do well but not this well. I think a lot of second borns have become the never-quite-good enough replacement (Nintendo Execs' kids included)

Actually I just posted this in the "Wii passes 10 million" thread, but that thread is dead, so I am reposting this here. I don't want to start whole thread for this, and I figured this would fit nicely:

You know it used to be "it all comes down to the games"

All three consoles have strong line-ups coming up, Wii has a much weaker libray than 360. Even when you consider casual titles, 360 has the better selling Madden and it had GHII, but Wii still outsells it. So many people still can't seem to figure this out. Here is why:

-Rapport with consumers, Sony has been very bad at building customer rapport. There system is advertised as complex and elitist.

-Ease of use. Not HD, you wanna play games you are going to pretty much get the same game on any TV, with the same cables. The Tech-savvy are the minority. Most people don't even know what an HD TV is or are still out of their reach, never mind own one.

-Quality and Customer Service. (Here's looking at you MS.)

-Payola, that's right I said it. Nintendo is paying TV and Print media to talk about and or show footage of people playing Wii and DS consoles. Just like movie companies pay off USA Today to have 30 articles about certain movies.

-Accessabilty and Comfort. Easy interface, Nintendo music, Big easy to read text. I hate the tiny text on my PS3 and when I had a 360. Some games it's so small you can read it. Even when people go HD, they still are mostly going to have TV from 20-35 inches. My House isn't big enough for more, and bigger ones are too expensive, gaudy, and repulsive if you ask me. I used to have a bigger TV. I hate walking into my house and seeing a living room dominated by a TV.

-No acronyms, no big or difficult words, everthing has a name that means what it is or looks like. Six-Axis = Most people don't know what they mean by six axis, there are only three that make up movement, and many don't know what axis means anyway. XMB, so sony has something that's called something that has an X in it confusing customers on branding... real smart. Xbox Live ("I don't know what it does and it cost money?") or WiiConnect. the Nunchuck (the most complicated part of basic wii parts but sounds fun to me). Wii Remote.

Edit: I did some research and found out that six axis movement is the only way to accomplish 4D gameplay.

Most people just don't care about online play or HD. They don't. Sorry.

On a side note I do care about online play and HD.