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When the Playstation 3 and XBox 360 came out, we started to have some console game systems that could hold a candle to a PC, graphically speaking. But when I’d read about the Nintendo Revolution (which was the code name for what is now known as the Wii) I was very impressed. I thought that Nintendo’s philosophy was right on the money – don’t just play a game of price and graphics oneupmanship with Sony and Microsoft, but innovate in a very radical way (the controller) while keeping the focus on the games.

The PS3 and 360 were trying to be a poor man’s computer, with games thrown in on the side. Putting Bluray on the PS3, in retrospect, was quite the coup, because for $400 you could pick up not only a capable game system, but also a Bluray disc player. But both of those systems were so very expensive, and their games so expensive, that it just didn’t make sense to me to pick them up. I mean, these console games, you play them for a little while and then you’re done. Like 20-30h of gameplay. On a computer, you can easily get 200+ with online gaming. Heck, you can get that with free games (eg Fear, AA, ET, etc).