No doubt you've already been bombarded about the newest offerings from Sony and Nintendo, the Playstation 3 and the Wii respectively. I'd offer to link to someplace you could pick one or both up, but such a place does not exist. :)Now, I am not a gamer. The last console I had was the NES I bought for $20 from my brother, who needed the dough to trade up to a SNES. During my last trip home my brother convinced me into playing a first-person shooter on his brand new Xbox 360. Cool game and all, but I got my butt handed to me in multi-player mode because I didn't have the 80 different button combos memorized like everyone else did.
Having said all that though, I find myself interested in the Wii. Here you have somebody who's never paid more than $200 in his entire life (counting PC, PocketPC, and the ol' GameBoy) on gaming, seriously considering plunking down that much and more on this new system.
What's the attraction? This thing looks like fun. I look at the PS3 and the Xbox 360 and I think they're cool, but the word "fun" never really pops into my head. Not having your typical button-studded controller, the Wii looks different to me. It looks like the kind of thing that takes all of 10 seconds to learn and you're off and running.
The other consoles also have an intimidation factor, for lack of a better phrase. I don't have a HDTV. I don't even (gasp!) have a large-screen TV, or even a home theater audio system of any kind. Sony and Microsoft's offerings would make me feel like I'm wasting their talents somehow, by hooking them up to an inferior audiovisual experience. The Wii looks like it would fit in just fine with my good ol' mono CRT TV.
If Nintendo can manage to get a good library of good games for the Wii, this thing's destined for greatness. The gamer crowd might turn up their noses but it could really be a hit for the rest of us. This non-gamer's already sold.
(Picture courtesy Marcin Chady. View the original entry here.)
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