Oh, come on. When I first heard that MS was going to call their console "XBox" i thought they had released their internal concept name by mistake. They really called that thing XBox. Is that descriptive, or what? A box that does X. Yeah, I know, you fill in the X yourself, how postmodern.
Whenever Nintendo releases something, people are all over it for how stupid it is, and how the Revolution/Wii is so much less powerful than the 360 or the PS3. So the whining in this thread is not surprising.
But you know what? Nintendo is the only one actually reaching out to non-gamers. The DS Lite is selling like crazy, and not just to boys, but to men and women of all ages. The Wii will do the same thing, because it will have much more universal appeal than a black box with a green "alien eye" that you can only play FPSs on.
Wii is fine with me. And in a month, nobody will care about the name anymore. Just like with the MBP.
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