Ridley wrote a post detailing the end of humanity as we know it vis a vis the lineups in Edmonton for the PS3.  My wife then followed up with a comment, including the following:

"You know, the even stupider thing is that a couple of months from now, someone else will release an even cooler gaming system, forcing these game systems to become yesterday's news (XBox, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii...what's next?!).

I am waiting until Hubbs' old DreamCast and PS2 and GameCube and XBox give out before even dreaming of another system. We really do have enough, non?"

This is one of the few times that my wife has been wrong.  Twice.

1) *NO ONE* will be releasing a console cooler than the Nintendo Wii.  Ever.  I don't even care about the motion sensor technology.  What I care about is playing the NES, Genesis, Turbografx-16, Super NES, and N64 libraries of games on one system.  
2) We most definitely do not have enough game systems until we have the Wii!  Then, and *maybe* then, will I consider my life to be complete.  

I have a confession to make - I own entirely too many video game systems.  The Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, and XBox are just the systems I have out by my television.  In boxes at home I also have an N64, NES, Sega Master System (with light gun), TurboDuo (the Turbografx+TurbografxCD unit combo), Colecovision, Atari 2600, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and the Sega CD (I had a PS1, but I threw it away when it stopped reading discs).  Heck, I've even got some of the old Japanese Nintendo tabletops.  If this doesn't make me the coolest and most desirable male on the planet I don't know what does.  The point of this is to tell you that the Wii is better than all of these systems combined.  The Wii can take the shattered wreckage of your life and make it whole again - all of your tragedies erased in a single swing of its motion sensor controller.

I'm not a big fan of lining up to fight people for consoles like when Mack Male cold cocked a 75 year old grandmother with a folding chair so he could be the first to get an XBox360.  But I am telling you to go line up, sell your kidneys, and buy the Wii.  Do it for yourself.  Do it for your family.  Most of all, do it for me, because I cannot buy it!  You see, I had a choice to make a couple of months ago - pick up the Mac, or pick up the Wii.  The two roads diverged in a wood and I...I chose the road less travelled by.  And that, my friends, has made all the difference.  Man, that's poetic.