There has to be more than one bewildered blogger and writer on the internet who is wondering exactly why, in a matter of days, many websites, developers, and writers have been blasting Nintendo for its humble little game console, the Wii. What, did the Wii make a bad ethnic joke?

The president of Epic Games, Mike Capps, just recently thrashed the Wii, doing no less than comparing it to a virus, saying, “So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they’ve showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on.” Personally, I can’t argue with that; I know many one-time Wii owners who got sucked into the craze, and eventually abandoned the small device in favor of more rounded, powerful consoles.

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