The Wii Potential

I'd say with confidence that the design of Nintendo's Wii is revolutionary, and inherently, it has almost infinite potential.  Nintendo is making all the right moves, and it's fascinating to witness this companies success.  The Wii is sold out world wide, and for good reason.  The recently updated version 3.1 of the Wii dash board coincides with an update that allows a USB keyboards (wireless or not) to be used within Opera and the dash board.  The virtual Console has been host to a flux of new titles lately, and original downloadable content has been promised and is coming very soon.  A massive update to the Everybody Votes channel will not only make polling more fun, but also introduce game rankings and search functionality.  Opera will now support user-created content for it's wii web browser as well.  When I turn on my Wii, I have access to  weather reports, news report (both channels  feature a really cool globe view),  I can buy and play classic games from  the past, download trailers (and soon game demos), answer polls and look at world wide or nation wide results, view and edit (editing is multiplayer!) pictures or videos from an SD card, post pictures to a message board and view them in a slide show with custom music, I can also transfer my Mii to my remote and carry Mii around, and we've established that I can browsing the internet.  I could also send messages from my Wii to a friends Wii, cell phone or computer.  Keep in mind that the Wii is backward compatible, so I could go to the disc channel and choose to play a game cube game or maye I want to play Mario Strikers online with 3 other friends.

Many may argue that Nintendo's online strategy is horrible when compared to Xbox Live or Home, but I think it is simply a case of the tortoise and the hair.  Consider Nintendo's market penetration, they've sold their Wii to hardcore gamers, casual gamers, parents, and grandparents.  Not to mention the DS sales, now all Nintendo needs to do is slowly get their new found audience to accept Online multiplayer, then you'll have close to 14 million Wii's Online.