Nintendo Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360

Games consoles promosing to not only give you a new experience but hours and hours of entertainment. Now that the games market makes more money then film box offices this is indeed a lucrative buisiness to invest into:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6088914.stm

Above is a link over a womans description over her playing a nintendo wii. Yet the nintendo wii is aimed at almost everbody anybody who has not played games before supposedly can quickly delve themselves into it. The controllers for the nintendo wii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote) look almost identical to a television remote. Obviously because we have seen it before the idea is we our mor likely to play it, instead of playing a PS3 or Xbox 360 which have custom built controllers specifically for there consoles. We also see that this is not the first time nintendo have tried to change the way we play games:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Scope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Printer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Glove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pad

Now a console like PS3 can set you back around four hundred and fifty pounds and thats not including a game which retail at sixty pounds each. Some say the price will put may off considering you can almost buy three nintendo consoles for that price.