It offers the best pick up and play options for quick family fun time. As a PC gamer you will find the graphics/depth of most titles to be dissapointing, but the Wii is usually a hit for the family. I teach Kindergarten and every kid knows what a Wii is. As a matter of fact when we introduced the word "we" one of my kids proclaimed he knew how to spell that already.... sure enough Wii.

This new version is definitely a method of staying ahead of the hackers. Nintendo knows they will never be able to stop people from running home brew and illegal ROMs. So the best thing they can do is bring new hardware to the market with new features and make the homebrew community start over. The DS is at the price point where people can pick one up on a whim, buy a R4 or another similar device, download some software and play for free. Nintendo doesn't make any royalties from pirated software...