Wii, You Say

Nintendo renamed the Revolution. It’s called the Wii now—as in "we," the idea being that this console dissolves the line between gamers and everyone else, that the motion controls make it accessible enough that your parents, your little sister, your friend who’s never touched a controller could pick it up and play alongside you without feeling like an idiot.

The name is ugly. Everyone said so immediately and they weren’t wrong. But the concept underneath it—the insistence that games don’t have to be a closed room—was harder to argue with. I still want one as soon as possible.