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  Nintendo WiiThe Nintendo Wii beat out the both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 by attracting the largest amount of buyers during March 2007. According to the NPD group, the Wii sold almost 260,000 units, the Xbox 360 sold 200,000 units, and the most powerful of the three, Sony’s Playstation 3 came in at 130,000 units sold.

So, why is the Wii winning? The Nintendo Wii has the least powerful graphical capability out of the three next generation consoles, not to mention its lack of WiFi and DVD capabilities. I believe that one of the main reasons is the Wii’s affordable pricing. The Wii is almost $150 to $300 cheaper than the 360 and PS3.

In addition the Wii appeals to a broader demographic, and has less of a “intimidation” factor than the other consoles. Now the entire family can play a tennis match, or compete in a bowling tournament with each other; all they have to do is pick up a controller and swing away. The Nintendo Wii was made with every single type of person’s interests in mind. As the name says, it was not made for you, or for me… it was made for “Wii”!

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Last night I was unable to receive or send emails via my BlackBerry handheld. It turns out that there was a major outage which started Tuesday evening at about 8:00 p.m. eastern time and lasted through at least this morning. So far RIM (Research in Motion), the company that owns and provides the BlackBerry service has not offered an explanation as to what happened. It took RIM more than day to issue a statement, and even then they only said that the “root cause is currently under review.”

That left tech analysts and average BlackBerry users alike speculating about what exactly happened. Message boards were afire today with posters indicating how much they were adversly affected by the outage.

While non BlackBerry users might not quite understand the adoration for the handheld devices that leads to them being dubbed “CrackBerries,” a Internet poll taken Wednesday by telecom expense management firm ProfitLine Inc. found that almost 80% of respondents who work in IT and telecom related fields reported operations were disrupted by the outage, with about 45% saying that the effect was “moderate or substantial.”

Those findings show that “wireless communication has gone from a travel convenience to a mission critical tool,” Randall DeLorenzo, VP of ProfitLine, said in a statement about the web poll.

Although my BlackBerry is now working, it seems to be running much slower than before. Hopefully this will be temporary as devices sync up and services will return to normal. I am sure there will be more developments to this story, so stay tuned.

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Here is an ad from 1984 from Apple announcing the Macintosh computer. The commercial was ahead of its time.

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