I only have a Wii this generation.  Am I not a gamer?  Because a few quick clicks of the mouse tell me that I have 8 times as many games as you.

Oh, so that's how you use the word?  Well then hell no I'm not a gamer and never will be.

1) I want the newest game experiences, which is why I have a Wii.

2) Anybody who uses gamerankings to prove a point is a moron.

3) I like boobs, but they serve no purpose in gameplay on a TV screen.  Their gameplay is in the real world.  And guns and blood are childish and are taken more seriously in film and even cartoons.

Also, coming up with your own definitions in an online forum is a pretty bad idea, because if you want people to know what you're talking about you're going to have to explain them about a million times a day in every single thread.

lol!

I just graduated from UC Berkeley last month without a laptop, and have never heard of this requirement.  I did homework at home on my desktop, or sometimes in one of the computer labs or the library.

Really? I just went to the registration event/preparation at UC Davis and the board members there told us that's how it works.

Do you think Nintendo is not going to disrupt again next generation? I'm fairly certain that they'll once again be a step ahead of Sony and Microsoft and develop a fundamentally different control method. Perhaps Nintendo On or whatever that helmet was called?

Either it depends on the department, or Davis is just nuts.  I have a friend who absolutely needed a laptop for a class at another school, but that was for an architecture program.  Luckily her financial aid helped pay for about half of it.

College of Engineering/ Computer science so...yeah.

If the next Nintendo console is "like the Wii"... then it will be innovative, like the Wii was, and positioned to take the market by storm, like the Wii did.

The HD/SD question has already been addressed, but I think it's also interesting to assume that Nintendo will stand still with respect to motion control, or whatever else they think of. I mean, the demo of the Vitality Sensor (for better or worse) ought to show that Nintendo isn't exactly resting on its laurels.

So, yeah, I expect that the next Nintendo console will probably take some major risk with respect to innovation, just like the Wii did. It just seems to be their current character to do so.

small devices that detect brain activity acuritly in real time are getting closer to reality so think about a Nintendo console that is HD with a good percentage of people with HD TVs and the ability to be controled with thoughts

This.... is a technophile myth, falasy, idiocy. Only an enthusaist(broader term for the mindset) has ever believed this happens. no, there is over a hundred years of business proof that this does not happen(Kim Chan, Blue Ocean Strategy dates back company research of success to 1880). The mass market upgrades not because of enthuastic interest, but because the overall values migrate due to the value/price. A "people" will buy a lower end TV hapilly if the price is signifagantly lower. As LCD/HD technology cheapens and CRTs become more uncommon a migration of value cost happens. People do not become more enthuiastic. This direction seems to be your discussed topic. I can only assume that you may be an enthuast. Which is ok. I'm an enthuast towards PnP RPG, but that does not mean we should accept that our values towards a product are standard or will be adopted by the mass market. 

The rest of your discussion unravels due to this directive approach.