PS3 story WAS negative in talking about clearing out consoles collecting dust. Wiis have been pretty hard to find but so have PS3s (at least in my experience). Perhaps the OC is too rich (because the real problem with the pS3 is it is too expensive, they should have ditched blue ray) because I had a hard time finding a PS3 to cash in on the Gamestop deal (called 8 stores before I found a store that had one, and that store only had 2 PS3s). However, I was very happy to cash in on my fat PS2 bought the first day the system launched and am really enjoying Resistance and downloaded F1 and Gran Tourismo demos (nothing else worth buying). I also have the 360 and Wii (first console I actually had to camp and stay overnight to get at launch/ thanks to my experience getting shut out on 360 I knew better this time).

Strangely, the 360 and the PS3 get the most play at my house. We like the wii but other than some early play time and playing it to demonstrate it to friends and family, we just don't play it that much. My 9 year old son was going crazy for the wii and playing it all the time for about two weeks. However, I can't remember the last time he played it as he has been playing the 360 and PS3 demos a lot. Since he has been playing games since he was 3, perhaps the intuitive controller thing is not as big an issue as when asked about why he does not play his wii that his father camped out to get for him (and let Dad get some playtime on the 360 and PS3 for a change), he said the wii games were fun in spurts but looked bad and did not hold his interest.

Plenty at launch? I heard that from many people and MS reps before the 360 launch and then wasted every morning of my life (4 am launch day) for two months trying to find one. Before you go attacking MS for an admittedly botched launch (and pr campaign afterwards), I believe that Nintendo's launch numbers are very similar to the 360s. I have had every system since Pong, and while I love Nintendo, don't forget that the original systems with chronic shortages at launch were Nintendos.