Sorry, that was me in the last post, pasted mail in from Notes and Fkd up on the name! Sorry!

I love the Wii for the fact that "Next Gen" means a step forward in the design of a game platform. A standard game pad or keyboard/mouse combo is "past it's sell by date" and the Wii is taking little steps towards VR. The 3D glasses and pressure vest for the PC are brilliant, but if they were combined with the Wii style of interaction it would be a real clincher!

Anyway back to my main argument.

I am a NES baby, that was my first console and this may mean I am a little bias, but the Xbox really did convert me when the cube was out... it was crap. But you can not merit a game on graphics. CoD3 was a landmark game in terms of graphics and the gameplay was also quite tight, but it was basically (but not entirely and i take nothing away from this game) still a shoot everything that moves game. MP3 is original, you have puzzles as well as mindless killing. No game on any console comes close to Zelda for puzzles, collectables and storyline... Well Tomb Raider is good, but still not as tight as Zelda.

OK i will give you PlayStation babies a point and agree that Nintendo has maintained it's "kiddie" style, but games like Mario Galaxy add a new dimension to gaming that even Prey failed to deliver, but you can not beat a PC for a serious gaming platform. I have two 1GB Nvidia graphic cards linked giving me 2048MB of VRAM (1GM more than the X-Box 360), 2 GB of RAM and a dual core 2.0MhZ Intel Processor and any game will run better than it's console counterpart. On top of that any port from a console can be plaid using a dualshock USB controller costing £12 just as good as it's counterpart. Add that to the 3D software and pressure vest i am planning on buying and you have an experience better than you can hope to get from a PS3.

OK it takes more time for some games to surface on the PC, and some are console specific, but seriously, if you are going to buy a console for one or two games you are either sick or sad, if you like 10 games that are console specific (and let's face it only Nintendo have that many exclusives), then the choice is obvious, but for me a PS3 or XBox game all seem to merge into one after awhile. A racer is a racer and a shoot 'em up is still a shoot 'em up... same $H1t different game, the Wii changes all that.

As the technology progresses and the games are more responsive to the Wii remote it will be even more immersing.

One final point, ADDICTIVE EXERCISE. You can not thrash your arms about for 25+ hours a week and not loose some weight, which is a plus for me (note my nickname) also the Wii fit will help with that (if it holds my weight)! If you get tired with playing a Wii you are a wuss and need to grow up and just get on with it!