I have an idea! Let's make a console with a controller that is its own console unto itself, and not offer any of the features that a conventional video game console has. We'll make up some gibberish name that is a deliberate misspelling of a pronoun. We'll call it the Ussssss with six S's for a sextuple dose of suck.

Nintendo has decided that Wii U, just like the Wii, won't play any DVDs or Blu-rays. I guess this works for them, probably because everyone already has something that plays DVDs or Blu-rays. Still, I feel kind of cheated. I like slowly destroying the disk drives on my consoles by using them to play movies. It makes me feel like a man.

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