Jay

Nintendo said months ago that they would not do store demo units.

Personally I don't see any feasable way of teathering a controller (for security) anyway that won't impead play and still keep it secure.

A dvd advert on repeat on a decent sized screen will give people enough of an idea of how it will work. I 'm sure if your looking at emptying your savings for a video game console your at least going to have a look at the one thats 1/3rd of price of the other.

How many people here have actually played the Wii, you would have only seen it in pics, movies and reviews and still know its good and want one.

I have doubts as to how much influence a demo unit actually has on sales of that console.

To give a an example of what the revolution could be like just look at the gamecube. It was a very efficent machine. It wasn't as powerful as an xbox but because of nintendo's clever design that maximises effeciency and minamises bottlenecks I don't see why the revoluion can't compete with the other 2 consoles.