When buying electronics, two factors remain relatively consistent -

1. If it’s new, it costs a lot more
2. If Sony is involved, it costs a lot more

Yet, even these two truisms fail to account the the $699cdn (roughly the same in American dollars) price tag placed on a (third-party!) Memory stick currently being advertised at Staples. Granted, 4GB cards are relatively new but can be obtained for less than $150 if you are fortunate enough to have an SD slot. Given Sony’s penchant for being proprietary and expensive, perhaps we should not be so hasty to give up on HD-DVD?
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Shortly after our wedding I asked my wife what she’d like as a wedding gift: a digital SLR or a Nintendo Wii console (this is as romantic as many techies get, after all). To my surprise and eventual delight she chose the Wii. We lucked out by arriving to a Best Buy barely an hour after the shipment arrived and scored a Wii console that someone else had probably been waiting on for weeks.

And so I joined the dark side: Nintendo has long had a negative stigma among gamers for releasing too many “cutesy” games on its under-powered consoles. These moves were deliberate, as Nintendo claimed to be targeting the family market rather than hardcore gamers. To that end, the Wii is no different from the N64 or previous “cutesy” consoles – however the revolutionary controller makes the idea of a family console a reality. Continue »