Wii shall overcome.

First, allow me to thank those of you who emailed in response to publication of this blog. And so I'll see about putting in a comments section. However, I worry about seeing abusive posts from the types who seem to take science as a personal affront; you may already have seen their output elsewhere.Since these people are often impervious to rational argument,reason and normal discourse,it is pointless arguing with them. A wise man once advised me thus: "Never argue with idiots. First they drag you down to their level. Then they beat you due to their experience" I will always be willing to engage with anyone who wishes to have serious discussion, but pointless shouting matches won't be entertained. Why Wii in a Green Blog? Well,this is about making money and there's no doubt that Nintendo is good at that. Latest figures show the motion-sensing handset game platform is selling 90 units a minute. This beats X-Box and SP3 hollow. Partly because Nintendo took the brave decision to marry motion sensor technology with cheap off-the shelf commodity components they got a ferocious slagging from hard-core gaming reviewers and other media besotted with bigger,louder,faster and ever-increasingly dear shoot-em-ups. Thing is that as Microsoft and Sony squared up to each other,seeking to top each other, the delivery of the promise became more and more expensive. Parents and gamers out there may think X-Box or PS3 as expensive, yet the manufacturers actually subsidise their consoles. No, it isn't an outbreak of corporate generosity; they intend to screw their profit out of their customer on the games.Both companies have thrown shed-loads of shareholders money concentrating on a wrong model, both seeking to dominate the market. The existing market. As was. The big breakthrough for Nintendo was when some genius there decided to focus on growing the market for gaming. Reinventing gaming, their revolutionary concept was make games for people who don't play games, people like me, who suspect that teenage boys are going blind in their bedrooms in an entirely different way than ones in my day when we used quill and ink. To record our experiences I hasten to add. In a diary or whatever. Though the geeks may have sneered, when Nintendo launched the Wii, and let's face it, it is a silly name, I saw a game that allow my nephews to play computer games with my mother,a device offering easily understood games such as tennis without some monster trying to kill her! I knew they were onto a winner. I even wanted one! I started saving towards buying shares in Nintendo, hoping to buy before the analysts noticed. I also spent an awful lot of hours late last year looking to buy a couple as Christmas presents. (Relations should ignore last sentence) And as Nintendo actually make a nice big fat profit on every console sold and the DS is zipping along nicely, too. For the investor this stock has held its price pretty well through the current mess, Have a look at NTDOY Now gentle and patient reader you may be still wondering why I consider a piece of electronic kit green.Briefly, it reuses old technology, it gets gamers moving and has caught on with seniors, allowing them play and interact with others such as their grandkids rather than to feel frozen out.Which a has a benefit to us all. My take on tech is do more with less. More nest time