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After the release of the Xbox and ps2, in the highly competitive world of video gaming consoles it appears like nintendo was pushed out of the game. Now, with the brand new xbox 360 and the soon to be released ps3, nintendo needs to definitely do something cool in order to keep up with the 2 giants that are leading the game so far. Nintendos answer to this situation is the in-development-stages Nintendo Wii. Hopefully, this will be a console capable of competing with xbox 360 and ps3. Will Wii really manage to give nintendo a breath of relief? Well, only time can show.

Nintedo Wii has been in development for quite some time now. The initial name of the project was nintendo Revolution but later on, the guys at nintendo decided to change its name to Wii (its pronounced we). The console itself is a black (it can also come in other colors, thats a common practice by Nintendo), sleek, rectangular box with a blue, beautiful, LED illuminated slot-receiver. The exterior follows the concept keep it simple and effective and its completely different from the flashy xbox 360.

Leaving the eye-candy aside now, lets talk about the actual features of the Wii console. First of all, nintendo promised that the Wii will bring a whole new gaming experience upon its arrival. part of the implementation of this plan is a small controller that comes along with Wii. Although it appears just like a simple TV controller, it contains motion sensors; this feature will be utilized in various gameplay aspects. For example, Titles such as legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Red Steel take advantage of the new controller technology in order to provide the player with an effective way to aim.

Regarding interior hardware aspects of the Wii, what we know by the moment is that it will be equipped with an IBM CPU, an ATI graphics card and a RAM memory of 512MB. Of course, it features wireless controllers, 2 usb ports and a built in antennae for WiFi internet access. Saddly for those who consider it a must, Wii will not support HD output but it still has the potential to look pretty good on a HDTV due to its wide screen friendly mode and the 480p progressive scan.

The last thing to add is that Wii features an amazing backwards compatibility feature. You can play literally any game that nintendo has ever produced. Yes, even retro games! Finally, another good thing about the Wii is that it will come at a very affordable price; according to nintendo it is going to cost something less than 250$!

Speaking with Warren Communication news, William Zeittler, Senior vice President of IBMs system & Technology Group said that yield learning on the new cell processor that makes up the core of Sonys PlayStation 3 has been faster than on any chip weve done.

Translation IBM is quickly learning how to produce more working chips per batch than any other chip before.

Essentially what that means to us the consumer, the Manufacturing plant will be able to ship as many chips as needed, without having to worry about supply issues once the PS3 heads into full production.

However, as we all know consoles are made up of more than processors, so supply issues could still arise from other components experiencing manufacturing issues, as we saw with the xbox 360 launch.

A great deal of the xbox 360 shortage is due to the lack of available parts. No matter how fast they can assemble the consoles, if parts are not available, manufacturing will come to a hault

Zeitles also mentioned that IBM was able to increase their production of xbox 360 parts quickly as well which enforces the idea if there is a ps3 shortage, dont blame IBM.

Now lets just hope the other 2,000 parts will be readily available.