The entire game industry is founded upon one system copying another. One company comes out with cartridge-based games, which are used for years. Another comes out with joysticks. Someone was first to make a gamepad. Another first to make theirs wireless. Another first to add motion sensing. It’s all about taking the previous ideas and building on them. Naturally there are many that copy with little addition (and Nintendo has always been a little more innovative, I’ll give them that.) But not everything Nintendo has done is original, either.

I’m a big Xbox 360 fan. I play my Xbox 360 more than any other system. I also really like the Wii. I own one, and play it too. I think Microsoft would need to make their controller somehow different to not be a knock-off of the Wii, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t use any of this type of technology because Nintendo did it first.

I’m just not sure who is saying the things you’re upset about. Myself, I don’t have any particular loyalties… I own a wide range of video game systems myself. These days, I play Xbox 360 the most because I’m having the most fun with it, but that’s not a stubborn loyalty. If the system becomes less fun I’ll play it less. If Nintendo, Sony, or anyone makes something more fun I’ll play that more.

You seem to have a very pro-Wii bias, and you seem to think that Xbox 360 fans are a bunch of buffoons. I’m not sure if that’s your actual claim, but your comments suggest that Wii owners are open to others and Xbox 360 owners are loyal to a fault. In fact, most of the Xbox 360 owners I know personally also have Nintendo Wii consoles.

The next Xbox system is at least two years away.