I don't think the Wii is really that much of an innovation either. The actual hardware is last generation, with the CPU and graphics just being updated versions of those found in the Gamecube. Yes the control system is different to the norm, but the Sony Eye Toy on the PS2 offered much the same motion sensing ideas years ago, with the camera motion detection giving maybe even more innovation as you could see yourself within the games as you played. Can the Wii do that?

The innovation with the Wii is that games for the system are easily accessible to non gamers and can be picked up and instantly enjoyed. Most being party games that you could easily compare to traditional party games. But it has the knock on effect of making most games for the system superfluous and short lived. A contract to games that long time gamers seek.

The Wii motion control system is well implemented and well conceived, but as is often the case with Nintendo systems only the first party software really takes advantage of it in the right way and creating well realised ways of using the controls. Pretty much all third party releases have yet to get to grips with the controls and end up being games that are harder to control than on other systems that are using a traditional control system.