I gotta say, when Nintendo announced what the Wii was going to be, I laughed my face off and figured they went off the deep end. "WELP THAT ABOUT WRAPS IT UP FOR NINTY" I said.
Then I read impressions later on about how the control was this and that, blahblahblah, but I didn't really pay much attention as I wasn't interested in the Wii. However, when the news came out that it would play GC games, SuperNES games, etc, that intrigued me. Then when I found out TP probably wasn't gonna be coming out for the GC (in a resonable timeframe), I think that's what sold me.
So I bought one. Dudes - Nintendo has got something big here. They are converting people that I would have never in a million years get into gaming. I think they have a decent shot at being number one, and I think Sony and Microsoft know it. The only that bothers me is that the beautiful graphic improvements we have come to expect (and that I love) may go by the wayside because of this. Not a good thing in my opinion - still, the Wii is the real deal.