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Take it from Snee: Wii’s days are numbered

Now that Sony’s Blu-Ray has defeated Toshiba’s HD-DVD format, there is no reason not to buy a Playstation 3.  The Nintendo Wii has coasted on novelty, but its failures as a serious gaming platform will be no match for a PS3 market.

Don’t get me wrong: the Wii is pretty cool. I own one, but I still ignore most of my real world responsibilities with my computer. The ability to throw my wiimote through my LCD screen doesn’t make up for its shortcomings. Besides, I can already do that with my remote control.

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Wii would like to teddy bear

Wii would also like to helmet. A recent look through the European Patent Office has uncovered some slightly “different” and utterly hilarious ideas from the house of Nintendo. Seriously, they’re head-scratchingly dumb. If you thought Nintendo couldn’t get lower than The Virtual Boy or R.O.B, then perhaps you might enjoy the Wii-peddle.

Considering just a little bit of the crap to come out of Nintendo’s peripheral catalog over the years (and just think of the upcoming third party peripherals, like the Wii attaché case), these shouldn’t even be surprising, but hopefully, considering this document of ideas was patented in March 2006, we won’t see too many of them brought to life. But then, the company that releases a big white pressure pad for a fitness game (now strengthened to hold fat Americans) is capable of anything.