Everyone I know, outside of my family, uses Windows. Not a single one likes Windows. Each one has their own reasons for using it, but not a single one of them describes the experience as enjoyable.
It's Don Quixote syndrome. Dream the impossible dream, fight the unfightable foe, answer the unanswerable question. Add to that, it's not like the guy actually solved the problem. He didn't find some miraculous new algabraic equation that actually pulls off the equation. He just said, "Hey, since there's no answer, I'll make one up!" Apparently the guy's an English professor in disguise.
I'm curious about what happens when you reverse the equation. a/b=c should always be able to become c*b=a right? But if ±Inifinity/0=Nullity, and Nullity*0=0 since everything equals 0, what then? Do we change the way we multiply by zero? Do we rework the division rules? Does Nullity become an exception to all the rules and can Mathematics handle rules exceptions?
I was an English major, and, while I had a knack for Math, I really didn't like it, so correct me where I'm wrong. That said, it seems to me that Mathematics is supposed to be a set of unflinching rules, with answers that are wrong or right, no middle ground. Unlike English (the subject and the language), there are no exceptions to rules, there are no points given for style and the only time you add a new term to the "language" of math is when there's a numerical equivalent. E=mc^2 isn't just a catchy thing to say, but all those letters have direct numerical equivalents.
If you go adding new numbers and terms that have no direct correlation, and break the rules of math in specific instances only, then, if the term is accepted, don't you ruin the solid foundation that Math is built on? Doesn't the subject become more like English, where rules and terms are flexible, and can be broken in the interest of style?
I love English. I love the fact that you can make the rules work the way you want them to work, and ignore them when they're not working for you. That said, I also find comfort in knowing that 2+2=4, 2/2=1 and you simply can't divide by 0, ever.
Okay, I ignored the first guy because I figured an AC that can't read doesn't really need to be corrected. Allow me to quote myself and this time I'll use caps instead of bold.
I will probably put the Wii in the GameCube's place BECAUSE I CAN DIRECTLY INSERT AND PLAY Metroid Prime WITHOUT HAVING TO PURCHASE IT AGAIN.
I'm not saying that there aren't benefits to re-buying games through the VC, but this idea that you only need the Wii to play old Nintendo games just isn't accurate. You cannot plug old games into the VC, and so if Nintendo doesn't release the games you want, you're SOL if you don't have them on hand.
I'm not trying to downplay the significance of the virtual console. It's a damn good idea, one that was immediately ripped off by Sony and Microsoft, and I'm sure I'm going to spend way too much money in the Wii shop when I have my console, but that's NOT BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY.
I'm having issues playing games on my PS2 already, and I've never used it as a DVD player. Another reason why I won't risk playing DVDs. I don't want to hasten the thing's practically guaranteed death.
For my PS2 and Xbox, I have component cables. The both sets of cables have plugs for both Xbox and PS2. For a while, I only had one set of cables, and I was plugging and unplugging the PS2 and Xbox as the need arose. It was a pain in the ass. Add to that, the only thing I plug into the VCR is the N64, and I only do that because I have composite cables for it, and I added it to my collection several months after I finalized my setup. Plugging the N64 into the front of the VCR takes about 3 seconds and requires nothing to be moved to do. Switching it's plug with the SNES would require moving all the controllers and GameBoy bits that I store behind the two.
My PS2 does play DVDs, however, the interface is kind of a pain if you don't buy the $30 remote, and my DVD player plays.avi files, which is damn handy for me. Plus it only cost $50, and I know it's built for DVDs, where the old PS2 I have is notorious for failing when used for DVD playback on a regular basis. I'd rather not risk the console.
When I get a Wii, I'll be able to move the Cube to my bedroom TV, and when I get a 360, I'll be able to place the Dreamcast and Wii on top of the 360. I'm not buying a PS3 until the price drops a couple hundred dollars (at least), which will be a couple of years, and by then I hope to be in a different position financially, so my current setup won't matter then.
You won't eventually only need the Wii for playing games. You cannot plug your NES, SNES or N64 games directly into the Wii and play them. You have to go online, purchase the games you currently have on hand, download them, and then you can play them. I have an SNES and a GameCube. I will probably put the Wii in the GameCubes place because I can directly insert and play Metroid Prime without having to purchase it again. I will leave my SNES where it is, because I own A Link to the Past and Super Mario World, and I'm not going to pay $8 to play a game I currently own. I will most definitely use the Wii to purchase and play old games I do not currently own. Ecco, Sonic, Bonk, SimCity I will buy and play, but not Mario Kart or Uniracers, since I have the carts and the console and the controllers.
IKEA's not a bad way to go for this. I have a TV cabinet from Wal-Mart that has six shelves, space for my 36" TV, and two cabinet spaces. I keep my Dreamcast, SNES, N64, PS2, Cube, Xbox, DVD Player, Combo player (with broken DVD drive), switcher, 45 games, 60 VHS tapes, controllers, wires, component switcher and assorted other crap all inside it.
My TV (SD) has one coax, one S-video/composite, and one component/composite input. It also has audio out which I plug into my surround sound. The component switcher ($20-$25 at Wal-Mart when I bought it last year) has every input but coax. The DVD player, VCR, PS2 and Xbox all run through it. The SNES and Dreamcast use RF adapters, so they daisy chain off the coax plug. The Cube plugs directly into the S-Video on the TV. The N64 was added late to the lineup, and so is the only one I have to plug in before playing, but it goes into the inputs on the front of the VCR, nice and easy like.
It's not an ultimate, smoking, moving, color-changing machine, but it gets the job done, and gets it done rather easily. The biggest obstacle I've run into in setting up console wiring is just the number of inputs the TV has. The more the merrier. Component switchers are great, too. My setup was done with limited funds and my personal resignation to the fact that I'm going to perpetually have more wires behind my TV than there are grains of sand on the beach. If you're looking for a more elegant, less convoluted, and, overall, more expensive option, I don't think you're going to find anything that isn't going to have to be custom built.
As a side note, I wouldn't replace your PS2 with the PS3 just yet. As I understand it, PS2 and PS1 peripherals aren't compatible without a workaround, and if you play Guitar Hero, there's not even a workaround yet.
All I can figure is that Sony's implementation of backwards compatability with the PS2 spoiled a bunch of people into thinking that's a right, not a feature. From everything I've read, the only system that can be 100% replaced by the next gen systems is the GameCube by the Wii. The 360 is limited BC, I thought the PS3 worked much the same way as the 360, with the addition that you can't use PS2 peripherals at all. You definitely don't get NES, SNES, N64 BC. What you get is the video game equivalent of an MP3 player and the iTunes Store.
"Incomplete" really points to the idea that they have an agenda that doesn't include making parents aware. Never mind even working in retail, if you just walk into a retail store any more, it's incredibly obvious that parents tend to give their kids whatever they want, either to shut them up, or because they have no control over their own children. Parents, in any number of areas, should be getting straight up F's, but corporate watchdog groups don't really care about changing the parents, they want to change the companies, and make a little scratch doing it, too.
Having worked retail, though, when it comes to video games, parents deserve worse than F. I can't count the number of parents that have gotten downright angry at me for not just giving their kid the damn game they want. They get pissed that they were dragged away from their own personal shopping spree. Nothing I can say about the violent, sexual, or otherwise adult content makes them calm down. It's ridiculous.
More than that, I think people just don't want to convert all the time. I overhear people in Wal-Mart asking for cassettes on a regular basis. What's more, they get upset when they're told the store hasn't carried cassettes in years. Wal-Mart was also one of the last major holdouts for VHS. They finally phased out VHS tapes within the past year, joing the rest of the industry in effectively forcing people to finally make the switch. Blu-DVD is going to go the way of the laser disc and the mini-disc. It's an arbitrary, minor change that's being pushed far too early.
Ahhhh, good to know. It's bad enough that PC games typically aren't finished when they're released. I was being to worry that if publishers start calling console betas demoes, then console gaming was progressing down that path even faster than I'd originally thought.
I've participated in a few different online betas on the PS2. Battlefield 2:Modern Combat and Jak X:Combat Racing, and I've heard of a large number of others. Granted, they weren't open to the public, you had to be chosen, but I never did anything special to be chosen, except for sending in the registration card for my network adapter.
I stopped reading OPM a long time ago. Never mind the fact that the demo discs have lately been nothing but one (usually lousy) new game demo, and six demos of games that have been on the $20 rack for months, if not years. In fact, a couple months ago, I'm fairly certain I saw a PS2 launch title on the demo disc.
I quit reading because the writing was so damn lousy. It had been going downhill for a long time, but the final straw was when the Katamari Damacy game review consisted of nothing but a list of crap in the game. I don't know if they thought it was funny, or if both the writer and the editor were just feeling exceptionally lazy that day, but it was the most worthless piece of drivel I'd ever read, and I never picked the magazine up again.
I still like to read the occasional game magazine. In fact, I've got a subscription to EGM. It's nice, when I'm working, or the wife's on the computer. I just hope the writers from OPM don't start ruining other mags, now that their rag is gone.
If anything, that shows the power of good software over hardware. God of War, the GTAs, Final Fantasy, Guitar Hero; great games make a great system. More and more of Sony's previously locked in brands are defecting to the 360 and I think that'll be the real downfall of the PS3 if they don't turn that around. Hardware shortages plus game that can be found on either 360 or PS3 are likely to drive 360 sales more than anything else. The PS3 will continue to sell out to the hardcare and the fanboys, but once that base is installed, the question is how do they pull in the rest? I'm not sure that Sony, despite the hype and the media coverage, has an effective plan in place for that.
As I understand it, what lowered supply does, though, is make Sony's sales numbers look better than they really are. Correct me if I'm wrong.
For the sake of argument, I'm going to make up some demand numbers here. If the PS3 has a market of 1,000,000 people, and Sony only releases 500,000 units, those units get snapped up immediately, and Sony can say, "Hey, look! We sold out! What a success!" As the weeks and months go on, the demand numbers will increase as more people see the machine in action and want one, and Sony will be able to continue claiming huge successes with the "Selling out is better than supplying demand" philosophy.
I get the feeling that if Nintendo releases 4,000,000 units, and sells only 2,000,000, the gaming press will look at it as a failure. "They only sold 50% of their stock, what a shame. The Wii isn't nearly as popular as we thought it was going to be." Never mind that they've sold four times what Sony did. Never mind that as demand increases, supply is there. Never mind that Nintendo is making a profit out of the gate. The story will be, "Wii fails."
Sony, time and time again, has shown that the Playstation brand is built on hype and a sell-out only increases the hype.
I bought some four-blade disposable razors on a trip once, and was convinced after the first shave that you couldn't add more blades without cleaning issues. The four-blades (I don't remember the brand) would clog up after just a couple strokes. I was sent a free Fusion in the mail, and thought I'd give it a try, since it was free, after all. I haven't had any problems with it. It rinses out just as easily as the Mach 3 and the extra blade is kinda handy.
I don't really think it gives a better or closer shave than the Mach 3 Turbo I've got, but it's certainly not the disaster thos disposables were. I figure I'll just keep both and buy whichever replacement blades are on sale at the time.
Have you not heard of Boot Camp? The MacBook Pro comes in the specs he's looking for, almost to a T, and with Boot Camp, he can install Windows and play whatever the hell he wants.
This is why I definitely think ruling out extra-sensory abilities is premature. Maybe the connection my wife and I have is more than just the result of our intimate knowledge of each other. However, I was in a car wreck a couple years ago, and my wife felt no premonitions of bad things happening to me at the time. If she goes out with friends and is gone a lot longer than I expected her to be, I worry about where she is and if she's all right. I have to sense that tells me she's all right, even though I may not have heard from her in hours.
One thing I would like to see explored, though, would be the connection some women are able to make with their close friends. Three different pregnant friends my wife has had, and she's been able to pinpoint the moment when contractions began for each one of them. On opposite sides of the city or the state, she picked up the phone each time and called each one, and found out she started having cramps at the same time their contractions began. I'd just attribute it to coincidence if it happened once, but she's done it with four different children, with no foreknowledge, no calling every half hour to ask for a status update.
That's one of those experiences that keeps me wondering about what we really know about how our minds interact. There may be a mundane explanation, and it may just be highly reliable randomness, but if there's an explanation, I've not heard of it.
I think it's naive to say that ESP and other phenomena can not be real, but it's also extremely naive to think that common, everyday, well documented coincidences are something extra ordinary.
I've been with my wife for nearly eight years, married for four. I finish her sentences, she seems to know when I've forgotten my keys, and keeping presents and surprises secret from one another is a huge undertaking. That doesn't make us telepathically linked, though. Intuitive about each other, maybe, but that's nothing paranormal.
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Besides, it's not like American's are even unanimous in their treatment of the English language and pronunciations. A quick trip through the South, New England, the Dakotas, or the Plains will make that abundantly clear. So who cares whether they pronounce Revolution the way we do? As long as they know what they're talking about, it works.
Realistically, Wii makes as much sense for the Japanese audience as Revolution does. The name's supposed to invoke community and togetherness, "we," but does the Japanese word for "we" have any relation to Wii? If "I" and "you" are any indication, probably not.
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Logic? You honestly think JT has any sort of logical atom in his brain? I'd laugh at the thought, but I'm afraid I wouldn't stop.
Tons upon tons of people use it and like it.
Everyone I know, outside of my family, uses Windows. Not a single one likes Windows. Each one has their own reasons for using it, but not a single one of them describes the experience as enjoyable.
It's Don Quixote syndrome. Dream the impossible dream, fight the unfightable foe, answer the unanswerable question. Add to that, it's not like the guy actually solved the problem. He didn't find some miraculous new algabraic equation that actually pulls off the equation. He just said, "Hey, since there's no answer, I'll make one up!" Apparently the guy's an English professor in disguise.
I'm curious about what happens when you reverse the equation. a/b=c should always be able to become c*b=a right? But if ±Inifinity/0=Nullity, and Nullity*0=0 since everything equals 0, what then? Do we change the way we multiply by zero? Do we rework the division rules? Does Nullity become an exception to all the rules and can Mathematics handle rules exceptions?
I was an English major, and, while I had a knack for Math, I really didn't like it, so correct me where I'm wrong. That said, it seems to me that Mathematics is supposed to be a set of unflinching rules, with answers that are wrong or right, no middle ground. Unlike English (the subject and the language), there are no exceptions to rules, there are no points given for style and the only time you add a new term to the "language" of math is when there's a numerical equivalent. E=mc^2 isn't just a catchy thing to say, but all those letters have direct numerical equivalents.
If you go adding new numbers and terms that have no direct correlation, and break the rules of math in specific instances only, then, if the term is accepted, don't you ruin the solid foundation that Math is built on? Doesn't the subject become more like English, where rules and terms are flexible, and can be broken in the interest of style?
I love English. I love the fact that you can make the rules work the way you want them to work, and ignore them when they're not working for you. That said, I also find comfort in knowing that 2+2=4, 2/2=1 and you simply can't divide by 0, ever.
Okay, I ignored the first guy because I figured an AC that can't read doesn't really need to be corrected. Allow me to quote myself and this time I'll use caps instead of bold.
I will probably put the Wii in the GameCube's place BECAUSE I CAN DIRECTLY INSERT AND PLAY Metroid Prime WITHOUT HAVING TO PURCHASE IT AGAIN.
I'm not saying that there aren't benefits to re-buying games through the VC, but this idea that you only need the Wii to play old Nintendo games just isn't accurate. You cannot plug old games into the VC, and so if Nintendo doesn't release the games you want, you're SOL if you don't have them on hand.
I'm not trying to downplay the significance of the virtual console. It's a damn good idea, one that was immediately ripped off by Sony and Microsoft, and I'm sure I'm going to spend way too much money in the Wii shop when I have my console, but that's NOT BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY.
I'm having issues playing games on my PS2 already, and I've never used it as a DVD player. Another reason why I won't risk playing DVDs. I don't want to hasten the thing's practically guaranteed death.
For my PS2 and Xbox, I have component cables. The both sets of cables have plugs for both Xbox and PS2. For a while, I only had one set of cables, and I was plugging and unplugging the PS2 and Xbox as the need arose. It was a pain in the ass. Add to that, the only thing I plug into the VCR is the N64, and I only do that because I have composite cables for it, and I added it to my collection several months after I finalized my setup. Plugging the N64 into the front of the VCR takes about 3 seconds and requires nothing to be moved to do. Switching it's plug with the SNES would require moving all the controllers and GameBoy bits that I store behind the two.
.avi files, which is damn handy for me. Plus it only cost $50, and I know it's built for DVDs, where the old PS2 I have is notorious for failing when used for DVD playback on a regular basis. I'd rather not risk the console.
My PS2 does play DVDs, however, the interface is kind of a pain if you don't buy the $30 remote, and my DVD player plays
When I get a Wii, I'll be able to move the Cube to my bedroom TV, and when I get a 360, I'll be able to place the Dreamcast and Wii on top of the 360. I'm not buying a PS3 until the price drops a couple hundred dollars (at least), which will be a couple of years, and by then I hope to be in a different position financially, so my current setup won't matter then.
Doesn't standing your consoles vertically send the chance of malfunctions and breakdowns through the roof?
You won't eventually only need the Wii for playing games. You cannot plug your NES, SNES or N64 games directly into the Wii and play them. You have to go online, purchase the games you currently have on hand, download them, and then you can play them. I have an SNES and a GameCube. I will probably put the Wii in the GameCubes place because I can directly insert and play Metroid Prime without having to purchase it again. I will leave my SNES where it is, because I own A Link to the Past and Super Mario World, and I'm not going to pay $8 to play a game I currently own. I will most definitely use the Wii to purchase and play old games I do not currently own. Ecco, Sonic, Bonk, SimCity I will buy and play, but not Mario Kart or Uniracers, since I have the carts and the console and the controllers.
IKEA's not a bad way to go for this. I have a TV cabinet from Wal-Mart that has six shelves, space for my 36" TV, and two cabinet spaces. I keep my Dreamcast, SNES, N64, PS2, Cube, Xbox, DVD Player, Combo player (with broken DVD drive), switcher, 45 games, 60 VHS tapes, controllers, wires, component switcher and assorted other crap all inside it.
My TV (SD) has one coax, one S-video/composite, and one component/composite input. It also has audio out which I plug into my surround sound. The component switcher ($20-$25 at Wal-Mart when I bought it last year) has every input but coax. The DVD player, VCR, PS2 and Xbox all run through it. The SNES and Dreamcast use RF adapters, so they daisy chain off the coax plug. The Cube plugs directly into the S-Video on the TV. The N64 was added late to the lineup, and so is the only one I have to plug in before playing, but it goes into the inputs on the front of the VCR, nice and easy like.
It's not an ultimate, smoking, moving, color-changing machine, but it gets the job done, and gets it done rather easily. The biggest obstacle I've run into in setting up console wiring is just the number of inputs the TV has. The more the merrier. Component switchers are great, too. My setup was done with limited funds and my personal resignation to the fact that I'm going to perpetually have more wires behind my TV than there are grains of sand on the beach. If you're looking for a more elegant, less convoluted, and, overall, more expensive option, I don't think you're going to find anything that isn't going to have to be custom built.
As a side note, I wouldn't replace your PS2 with the PS3 just yet. As I understand it, PS2 and PS1 peripherals aren't compatible without a workaround, and if you play Guitar Hero, there's not even a workaround yet.
All I can figure is that Sony's implementation of backwards compatability with the PS2 spoiled a bunch of people into thinking that's a right, not a feature. From everything I've read, the only system that can be 100% replaced by the next gen systems is the GameCube by the Wii. The 360 is limited BC, I thought the PS3 worked much the same way as the 360, with the addition that you can't use PS2 peripherals at all. You definitely don't get NES, SNES, N64 BC. What you get is the video game equivalent of an MP3 player and the iTunes Store.
Having worked retail, though, when it comes to video games, parents deserve worse than F. I can't count the number of parents that have gotten downright angry at me for not just giving their kid the damn game they want. They get pissed that they were dragged away from their own personal shopping spree. Nothing I can say about the violent, sexual, or otherwise adult content makes them calm down. It's ridiculous.
More than that, I think people just don't want to convert all the time. I overhear people in Wal-Mart asking for cassettes on a regular basis. What's more, they get upset when they're told the store hasn't carried cassettes in years. Wal-Mart was also one of the last major holdouts for VHS. They finally phased out VHS tapes within the past year, joing the rest of the industry in effectively forcing people to finally make the switch. Blu-DVD is going to go the way of the laser disc and the mini-disc. It's an arbitrary, minor change that's being pushed far too early.
Ahhhh, good to know. It's bad enough that PC games typically aren't finished when they're released. I was being to worry that if publishers start calling console betas demoes, then console gaming was progressing down that path even faster than I'd originally thought.
I've participated in a few different online betas on the PS2. Battlefield 2:Modern Combat and Jak X:Combat Racing, and I've heard of a large number of others. Granted, they weren't open to the public, you had to be chosen, but I never did anything special to be chosen, except for sending in the registration card for my network adapter.
Granted, I didn't RTFA, as I don't really care, but that line struck me. This isn't going to be a demo, it's a beta test!
I quit reading because the writing was so damn lousy. It had been going downhill for a long time, but the final straw was when the Katamari Damacy game review consisted of nothing but a list of crap in the game. I don't know if they thought it was funny, or if both the writer and the editor were just feeling exceptionally lazy that day, but it was the most worthless piece of drivel I'd ever read, and I never picked the magazine up again.
I still like to read the occasional game magazine. In fact, I've got a subscription to EGM. It's nice, when I'm working, or the wife's on the computer. I just hope the writers from OPM don't start ruining other mags, now that their rag is gone.
If anything, that shows the power of good software over hardware. God of War, the GTAs, Final Fantasy, Guitar Hero; great games make a great system. More and more of Sony's previously locked in brands are defecting to the 360 and I think that'll be the real downfall of the PS3 if they don't turn that around. Hardware shortages plus game that can be found on either 360 or PS3 are likely to drive 360 sales more than anything else. The PS3 will continue to sell out to the hardcare and the fanboys, but once that base is installed, the question is how do they pull in the rest? I'm not sure that Sony, despite the hype and the media coverage, has an effective plan in place for that.
For the sake of argument, I'm going to make up some demand numbers here. If the PS3 has a market of 1,000,000 people, and Sony only releases 500,000 units, those units get snapped up immediately, and Sony can say, "Hey, look! We sold out! What a success!" As the weeks and months go on, the demand numbers will increase as more people see the machine in action and want one, and Sony will be able to continue claiming huge successes with the "Selling out is better than supplying demand" philosophy.
I get the feeling that if Nintendo releases 4,000,000 units, and sells only 2,000,000, the gaming press will look at it as a failure. "They only sold 50% of their stock, what a shame. The Wii isn't nearly as popular as we thought it was going to be." Never mind that they've sold four times what Sony did. Never mind that as demand increases, supply is there. Never mind that Nintendo is making a profit out of the gate. The story will be, "Wii fails."
Sony, time and time again, has shown that the Playstation brand is built on hype and a sell-out only increases the hype.
I don't really think it gives a better or closer shave than the Mach 3 Turbo I've got, but it's certainly not the disaster thos disposables were. I figure I'll just keep both and buy whichever replacement blades are on sale at the time.
Have you not heard of Boot Camp? The MacBook Pro comes in the specs he's looking for, almost to a T, and with Boot Camp, he can install Windows and play whatever the hell he wants.
This is why I definitely think ruling out extra-sensory abilities is premature. Maybe the connection my wife and I have is more than just the result of our intimate knowledge of each other. However, I was in a car wreck a couple years ago, and my wife felt no premonitions of bad things happening to me at the time. If she goes out with friends and is gone a lot longer than I expected her to be, I worry about where she is and if she's all right. I have to sense that tells me she's all right, even though I may not have heard from her in hours.
One thing I would like to see explored, though, would be the connection some women are able to make with their close friends. Three different pregnant friends my wife has had, and she's been able to pinpoint the moment when contractions began for each one of them. On opposite sides of the city or the state, she picked up the phone each time and called each one, and found out she started having cramps at the same time their contractions began. I'd just attribute it to coincidence if it happened once, but she's done it with four different children, with no foreknowledge, no calling every half hour to ask for a status update.
That's one of those experiences that keeps me wondering about what we really know about how our minds interact. There may be a mundane explanation, and it may just be highly reliable randomness, but if there's an explanation, I've not heard of it.
Damn! I meant to say I have... a friend... who's brother has a friend who's married.... It's too late isn't it? I'm outcast, now, aren't I?
I've been with my wife for nearly eight years, married for four. I finish her sentences, she seems to know when I've forgotten my keys, and keeping presents and surprises secret from one another is a huge undertaking. That doesn't make us telepathically linked, though. Intuitive about each other, maybe, but that's nothing paranormal.
Realistically, Wii makes as much sense for the Japanese audience as Revolution does. The name's supposed to invoke community and togetherness, "we," but does the Japanese word for "we" have any relation to Wii? If "I" and "you" are any indication, probably not.
Considering the way the AI drives in the game, that would be a plausible story.