That was the Wii in a nutshell: "Let's see if we can get a bunch of people who would never play Call of Duty to spend $300 on a balance board." Answer was: Fuck to the yes.

Here's where I'm at: PC gaming is designed to use a keyboard and a mouse. That means there are potentially thousands of commands. It's designed to absorb your attention entirely, with no concessions to anyone else in the room. Console gaming is designed to use the buttons that fit on an ergonomic controller. It's designed to happen in the living room, which probably has other people walking through it at some point. There are necessarily concessions to observers.

You can't watch someone play a PC game unless you're a fan of that PC game. However, watching someone fuck up on a console game is almost as much fun as watching reality television - never mind watching something interesting.

I've got a hand-me-down PS3 and a Wii. But I've got a bitchin' couch, a 92" projection screen and a coffee table. That means my wife and I can trade off on beating Tomb Raider or The Cave or Metroid Prime or Okami or Zelda and it's a casual, engaging experience. If I'm playing Crysis I'm playing it alone.

So I don't play Crysis.