Ahh the innovate/imitate debate.

This couldn't be more of an endorsement of the Wii by Sony, but it'll only be a commercial success if all the hardcore gamers who've been mocking the Wii for years swallow their pride, eat some humble pie and buy it. Maybe the games coming out on 360/PS3 will be more mature, but if they don't copy Nintendo yet again and embrace the wider demographic of new/casual gamers then won't they just be competing over the same continually shrinking demographic that Nintendo had the ingenuity to move away from?

I think you're spot on here Chotus. It seems to me that both Microsoft and Sony have a vested interest in perpetuating this whole 'fanboy loyalty' thing as it drives sales and creates a dedicated install base. C'mon everybody **CHEESE WARNING** let's all be about the games and not get dragged into the Corporations' cock-measuring.

D'oh! Cheers Bass : )

Paying the licence fee gives the BBC so much money to make programmes that it raises the standards of the other competing channels. This has the effect of raising the overall standard of British broadcasting. So the licence fee is actually a good thing - the alternative is more and more advertising. The BBC is advert-free TV, which has got to be a good thing.

Interesting article, but how can anyone write about Speedball 2 without mentioning the random cries of "Ice cream! Ice cream!" from a vendor somewhere in the crowd?