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So now that you have had a chance to play with the Wii and play with the PS3, what are your thoughts on those consoles? Not necessarily how they relate to the 360. But specifically on those two systems.

Well the Wii, the innovation that the Wiimote, and pulling in people outside of typically the core gamer group that either are lapsed gamers, casual gamers, or never played a game before -- I think is great for the industry. I love playing the Wii. It's got some very unique experiences, I caught glimpses of the press conference yesterday, going to fitness, health, and well-being is an obvious move and something that I'll watch with interest. The question that Nintendo has to answer and Reggie kind of tried to do that, but is the experience sustainable? Are third parties going to be successful? First party is very strong on Nintendo platform, as it always has been, so is there room for the third parties to be very successful? Reggie certainly said that that is the case. I think they seemed to go out of their way to showcase third parties where typically its a first party love fest at times.

So I've played the Wii, enjoy the Wii. My kids are in love with it, I have adult kids so I don't have the advantage of a lot of people that I work with, who have 9 and 10 and 12 year olds, I don't have that, but they all enjoy it, clearly it aims to that demographic. With regards to the PS3, I haven't played it a lot. I only got see the back end of the conference, I had to step away from my computer to get back to work when Kojima-san was on showing the Metal Gear Solid trailer; I didn't seen LittleBigPlanet, and, of course, KillZone. So but the experience, they need some big games. You guys write about it everyday, the consumer writes about it. They need something that consumers say, this is why I need to buy a PlayStation 3. Killzone may be that, I don't know what else could be. Metal Gear Soli -- 2008. We're going to have to wait and see, but they have laid out who they are, we've certainly, as I said Tuesday night, put our cards on the table and the consumer will decide. It will be a very, very important holiday.

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