Happy New Year and all that. So how did your holiday gaming go? For me it was dominated by the Wii and Viva Piñata on the 360. The latter was a very pleasant surprise - a cute, yet demanding, "garden 'em up" that brought a welcome splash of colour to the 360.
But the real Christmas success story was the Wii. When your mother in law (61) wants to have her first ever go on a games console you know things have changed. Similarly my wife's friends were, after initial reticence formed by years of disinterest/fear of getting it "wrong", keen to play. Yes, there are still plenty of question marks over the Wii - Call of Duty 3, for example, is a shocker and makes you worry about future attempts to shoehorn traditional gaming franchises onto the Wii - but in my experience at least the Wii has certainly broken down many of those barriers that have historically surrounded console gaming. Anyone else's relatives lose their console virginity to the Wii over Christmas?
