I've recently finished reading an article in TIME magazine about the wii, and i've all of a sudden had a huge change of heart. I was originally looking forward to the wii coming out, and was planning to get it eventually but now its become TOP priority. i have to get this console. my original order of preference used to be arranged like this: PS3, Wii, X360.
But now that i've seen and thought about how much fun it could be swinging the controller around and moving instead of just sitting there twiddling your fingers on a couple of joysticks iv decided to get this cheap, little box first. Not only to be more 'in the game' but also be able to play all those really cool games i used to play on my snes before it broke *sniff* ill never get over that. My only issue with the wii right now is the lack of third party support. its such a good idea, and it looks like its really going to help the horror that is befalling the gaming industry. for example - the huge development prices, lack of innovation, the accusations against games making people violent, lazy and so on. Wii looks like it is going to completely change this, and hopefully set new standards for sony, microsoft and possibly a new competitor next gen as well as the many more years to come.

I hope that just because nintendo fell drasticly behind last generation doesnt mean all third party supporters will abandon it and leave it for dead this gen, when they are trying the hardest out of all three companies to save the dying gaming industry. Nintendo has already lost some series it well deserves such as resident evil 5, and is being compensated with something that many speculate as being a horrible resident evil: gun survivor game (dear god no!) instead of getting the next game in the story, despite nintendo practicly brought resident evil to where it is today.
The future however still looks bright for nintendo with the huge numbers of people waiting for its release due to a number of reasons including its price, innovation, fun games and its system that allows us to access old-school nintendo games. i can hardly wait till this is out!:D