I've been hearing a lot recently about the Nintendo Wii's supposed "backwards compatibility," and I have a bit of a problem with it.

Now, the fact that the Wii will allow you to play GameCube games -- that's backwards compatibility. But asking me to jump online and hand you anywhere from $5 to $10 for NES, SNES, and N64 games...not so much. So why call it "backwards compatibility" when it's truly not?

I welcome the fact that I can buy those old games and play them on the Wii. Really, I do. But let's call it as it is, folks. Re-buying old games to play them on a new system is not "backwards compatibility." It's re-buying old games to play them on a new system.