Which brings us to Wii

The day has finally come: It's my housemate's birthday...oh, and Nintendo's long, long, long-expected new concole, the Wii, is here! I'm sure you all know about it's cool new features; the wireless remote, the ability to download any and all games ever released on any Nintendo console etc; but the best bit is that it looks like Nintendo itself will stay alive, if just a little longer. All the data so far has shown that most people buying the Wii in the first couple of days already have either an Xbox 360 and/or a PlayStation 2, and even then, more Wii consoles have been sold in the first 10 days of release than there have been Xbox 360s produced. (Stan Beer over at ITWire reckons that Microsoft is going to have to increase their loss on each console to even stay in the game...which I think is only a good thing). So with Nintendo's little niche of 'pure games' carved out and ready, the demise of the last honest games company may be a way off yet.