The last post was a sort of excuse to explain why I phoned Toys R Us before Christmas to ask if they had any Nintendo Wii’s in stock. They said they were getting some in tomorrow (the 16th of December), so I went down there at 8am. There was a queue of 200 people who had been there since the previous evening.

I’m clearly a rank amateur at this.

Nevertheless, when the supply squeeze eases (maybe in February?), I fully intend to get one and chalk it up to a technophilic desire to test out the VR-like interface possibilities of the Wiimote, and not at all to use it as a fast-forward button. Oh no.

I also have a great desire to see Sony crash and burn, with the Wii killing the PS3 the way the DS is killing the PSP. Sony is one of the chief architects of jokes like Vista’s crippled media playback capabilities and the whole stillborn HD midden. The only downside to a total failure of the PS3 is the probable ascendancy of HD-DVD. At first I was disappointed at the format split, because it seemed to doom both to obscurity, but now I hope it continues so they can battle each other into their own shallow graves alongside Laserdisc.