SarcasticGamer writes:
"The Wii has been dubbed the retarded redheaded stepchild of the gaming world around here lately. I don't get it, it's by far been the most successful of the current generation consoles and beloved by 99% of its owners, so…
Like the inimitable Lono, I'm a recent Wii owner; and as such something of a convert - for the simple reason that I gave up trying to figure out why I hated it from the other side of a store window and actually played it.
It's not until you have spent some time with the Wii that you begin to understand its charms - and the brilliance of the Nintendo corporate brain. If somebody was to tell you a few years back that a console based firmly toward the Japanese market would achieve market penetration in the west to rival any of the other superconsoles would you believe them? No, but it did. And here's why: it's unique. It's pervasive. It's intuitive. It's completely Japanese..."