Ahh, it's beginning.

You know how it goes. Two similar devices come out... Intel vs AMD, Nintendo vs Sony, etc and so forth. You start comparing! "Well, Intel is faster than AMD!" ... "No! AMD is faster than Intel!" Nobody had any problem when AMD was faster than Intel... everyone would pull benchmarks out their hind-end to "prove" it, too. But when Intel woke up and said "oh, hey... AMD's getting competitive... we need to get to work" and made a processor faster than AMD, suddenly, all the AMD fanboys were crying "apples and oranges! apples and oranges! you can't compare Intel to AMD!"

Right... hypocrasy at it's finest.

Anyway, to the point. People have JUST now, after how many months, started to say "you know, you really can't compare the Nintendo Wii to the Playstation 3"... and I'm like, errrrr, why not? You've been doing just that since before E3!!

It's like Intel vs AMD. Nintendo was the first powerhouse of videogames. They kind of slipped back into the sidelines and let the other companies take over. Not really on purpose, but maybe just because they got smug and lazy and didn't think anyone could compete with them. Nintendo Gamecube was heralded as a failure (even though Nintendo make massive profits off the console alone) and the Playstation was king of the hill. Everyone said Playstation was better than the 64 and the Gamecube. What's that? Oh, yeah... that's comparing!

Nintendo wakes up, like Intel, and makes a killer console. Publicity skyrockets... everyone wants one. PS3 has horrible public relations... there's problems with assembly... there's problems with Blu-Ray. Nintendo is at an all-time high... NES era, as a matter of fact. Nintendo is setting themselves up to be king of the hill again. What do the Sony fanboys say? "apples and oranges! apples and oranges! you can't compare Nintendo to Sony!"

Why not? Because Nintendo is winning? Right... hypocrasy at it's finest.

This happened with Microsoft, too. The great Interer Browser Wars! Internet Explorer was the browser to use at one time, believe it or not. Then Netscape came up while Microsoft was napping and took a fair share of users. Then Microsoft woke up and said "aah! there's someone competitive here!" and proceeded to bury Netscape Navigator with newer and better versions of Internet Explorer.

Yes, I know, IE isn't so hot now... but it's happening again. IE6 was pretty bad. But then Mozilla Firefox comes out and says "hi, everyone! look here! we can do it better!" and they did. Everyone starts heading to Firefox. Microsoft wakes up and says "uh-oh, more competition!" and then they set around to making IE7, which is still in beta. We all know history loves to repeat itself... did Microsoft recognize the competition and make IE7 to kill Firefox? Maybe. Maybe not. But they did wake up and they ARE fixing bugs that people have complained about for years.

We shall see...

In the meantime, feel free to compare Nintendo to Sony all you want.

We know Wii'll win.