Nintendo Wii - Let battle commence

I love Nintendo let's get that clear.

I admire their vision, their spirit and their desire to innovate in an otherwise bland market driven by cash hungry, multi-national corporate organisations. These huge businesses (M'soft and Sony in case you were wondering!) are simply built on stripping kids (and parents) of their hard earned cash for second rate games and hardware that is merely a poor improvement on the last...

Nintendo on the other hand offer something different. Everytime.

Whilst Gay-station and X-Bollocks merely improve the graphics on their new system, Nintendo fire things up with a totally new controller (again!) and offer gamers the opportunity to take a blast from the past and induldge in all the retro games we love from Snes / N64 and Gamecube via and online portal.

The new control system alone looks fascinating. Game designers are buzzing with ideas on how it can further enhance the gaming experience and bring the human / computer interface a further step closer. Nintendo creates gaming systems, not a "jack of all trades, master of none", like the "so called", competition. DVD players play DVD's, Stereo's play music, gaming systems play games?! It's a simple concept. You'd think.

At E3 last week, queues for Wii were 4 hours long compared to less that 20 minutes for PS3 and X-Box 360 - The word is out, the word is Wii and the future is bright...

...and I didn't even mention The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess once. That's a thread all of it's own...