Last But Not Least

Nintendo has caught everyone, even themselves by surprise after the unbelievable success of their Wii console. A year before it's release, many experts predicted that the industry leaders at the time, Microsoft and Sony, would eat them alive with their hugely powerful machines and huge marketing budgets. After the generation that saw the death of the Sega Dreamcast and saw the Gamecube struggle to move units, many industry experts assumed that big companies that can throw a lot of money at advertising will in the end prevail. Nintendo has proven that if you just show a bit of innovation and take a bit of a risk, you can do anything.

The first thing that you think of when someone mentions the Wii, is the very original approach Nintendo took with regards to the "control pad" or, more accurately, the "control remote." The creative team acknowledged that they couldn't match it with the big guns when it came to a regular console, so they began thinking outside the box to offer an affordable console that was also unlike anything we'd seen before.

Unfortunately, such a move was always going to be met by criticism for various reasons. Many are of the belief that game developers are struggling to work out what to do with the unique control system, and that there aren't as many quality games as there are on the Xbox 360 and PS3. This is a fair criticism. A quick skim through the games available for the Wii will leave many feeling quite underwhelmed. While there are a few top quality games on the system, many are sick of poor quality party games that get thrown together in a month.

The other problem Nintendo are currently having is that there simply aren't enough consoles available to meet demand. This just goes to show that the success of the console has even caught the company off guard. There are reports that the lack of consoles has cost Nintendo upwards of $1 billion in sales. Not to mention the fact that many will just elect to buy a much easier to find PS3 or Xbox 360 instead.

Regardless of the criticism's, Nintendo seem to be comfortably in the battle this generation. Not only are they outselling the 360 and PS3, but they're obliterating them. With more than 3 million consoles moved compared to the 360 (even though it's been out a year longer) and more than 11 million consoles than the PS3 as of the 29th of December 2007. That should say one thing to us all: After two consoles that lost out to the respective PlayStation systems, Nintendo are back.

Keep up to date with your much loved Wii. Check out my Wii blog entitled Wii Want to Blog for all my adventures in Wii.

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Exactly how well do you really know about the PS3?

Most people know that when you go to buy a PS3 you have more options than it's sister console the PS2. The main problem with this is that a lot of people mess around with all the options and don't really know how to set it up right.

I remember when I first got my new PS3 I was so shocked and dumb founded because it look nothing like the PS2. For example, when I glanced at it the first I freaked out because there were no memory card slots. I thought I was going to have to build up all my stats and characters again (man I had so many cars saved for GT3 on my memory card). At first I was going to return my new PS3 because I had to rebuild everything again, but after chatting with me friend I discovered a way to still use my old PS2 memory card.

Do you know what I'm talking about? It's was so simple I could have screamed.

I found out that they made thing called a PS3 to Ps2 memory card adapter. Man, are they smart marketers to not include it into the box in the first place. The adapter is a small little device that you plug in your PS2 memory card into and than hook it up into the USB port on your PS3. It's a pretty cool little device and will save you a lot of headache and time for having to build up your stats again. Once you save your info to your PS3 it will be there till the end of time or until you have to buy the PS4 (ha ha ha).

So I bet your thinking this adapter isn't going to cheap, right?

Actually, the PS3 to PS2 memory card adapter normally will run you only about $11.99 to $15.99. I can be found just about anywhere like at you local Target or Best Buy. Lucky for me I got mine for free from my friend (ha ha ha those guys at Sony won't get any more money from me). While you are there you should check out the other extras for the PS3 because it has a lot of cool new features, but most the good ones are already installed.

Now besides for the little problem with the copying you old games PS2 games (which is solved easily with the adapter) the new PS3 have many new features and cool extras. The one thing I love and I do recommend you buy it is to upgrade you 40 Gig memory to the 80 Gig. If your like my and love playing a lot of different games this will come in very handy.

If you would like to know more or just need some help with your new PS3 please feel free to stop my site and who knows maybe you'll find out something else new there.

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