My Love affair with the Wii has come to a close.

The difference between the end of my relationship with Nintendo this gen when compared to other gens is that my girlfriend still LOVES the Wii. A year ago someone made the comment on System Wars that Wii was going to become "A console that you leave in the closet and take out at parties just like a Karekoke machine or board game"

How true that statment is. At launch I picked up Zelda and Red Steel, both games combine have been played roughly 1/4 of the time that Wii Sports has been played on my Wii. The simple fact is that Zelda and games like it are just more annoying played with the Wii-mote, to such a point where I bought Zelda TP on Gamecube just so I could play for a few hours straight without having to swing the controller around to move my sword.

I am not saying Wii is a bad console, but its amazing how quickly I turned on it. It was almost overnight that I went right back to my 360 and it welcomed me with Crackdown and Lost Planet as a welcome home gift. 

Wii has really changed the way I play games, and I look at games. Games like Smooth Moves which if it was released in some variation for a regular console I never would have considered makes it to the top of my shopping list, games liek Tiger Woods golf which I never buy is also right up there for Wii, yet games that I love like Metroid are no where to be found because at the end of the day, I am just to set in my ways to swing the damn Wii-Mote around like a mace in midevil times just to get Link, Samus or whoever to do something that the "B" button used to do for me.  

The Wii really is not in my opinion part of this generation of video games, but rather the first generation in a new wave of games where functionality and interaction reign supreme over gameplay and graphics.