I saw the name for the new Nintendo a few days ago, but am just now starting to believe it.  I don't even know how to pronounce this damn thing.  Is it "Wii" as in, "Wheee, this is great!" or is it "W-2" like the tax form?  Nintendo, there's already a war with a similar name, and I doubt any of its participants would equate it to fun.  This is especially surprising when you consider that this is coming from a Japanese company, a country which I'm sure remembers the last two major events of that epic struggle with little fondness.  Let's stop reopening old wounds and let bygones be bygones!  Haven't you paid us back with that whole Pokemon thing?  Didn't it occur to you guys that stores keep expensive game systems locked in glass cabinets, and you must therefore ask the clerk to retrieve them for you?  I don't want to walk up to some attractive woman at Meijer who's only working there to pay her way through college and ask her for the new Nintendo by making a noise that sounds like a sea otter having an orgasm.

Like I indicated in my last episode of online ranting lunacy, I'm not too happy with Microsoft either.  What a bonehead move on their part failing to ensure that ALL their old games are playable on the new system.  I'm an XBox fan all the way, because I think XBox is the system to have right now.  It usually surpasses its rivals in terms of graphics, and though some games come out much later for the XBox than for the PS2 the improved versions are usually worth the wait.  However, and this is a subtle but important distinction: I AM NOT A MICROSOFT FAN.  I like products, not companies.  If the quality of a firm's products begins to slip, I switch to a different product.  So I might be saying XBox now, but next year I might be boasting about my Playstation 3.  It's like Jenna Jameson says when she picks out her next co-star: it's whoever has the best overall package at the time.