In the driver's seat

Since the Wii's launch nearly three years ago, it's set records for home console penetration rates and helped make Nintendo one of the most profitable companies in the world.  The platform's received widespread acclaim from people outside of the gaming industry and has been embraced by so-called "non-gamers" – an impressive feat for a gaming console.  Nintendo has been more successful than most fanboys, analysts, industry pundits and even Nintendo execs thought possible.

Nintendo has placed themselves in such a strong position this generation that it's going to be very hard to take them head on in the motion controlling field.  Sony and Microsoft are going to give it a shot with their own cameras/controllers next year, but we feel the odds are stacked against them. 

The following are all of the hurdles that Sony and Microsoft would have to get over in order to properly compete with Nintendo's waggle power.