The Wii is Personified by its Own Download Screen

I just wanted to point out that everything you need to know about the Wii, you can find out from its downloading progress bar. Look at it here, at 2:20 in the video. Rather than a percent completed bar or something, it's Mario constantly running forward, collecting coins and eventually breaking the blocks above him with every 1/3 of the download that is complete. Here's why this is all you need to know about the Wii:

1. It looks slick and cool, though it doesn't actually give you the information you need.
2. It has Mario, who is in nearly every game worth owning on the Wii, excluding Zelda, of course.

The Wii is just really cool and fun, but isn't actually as powerful or helpful, exactly. But still, that Mario nostalgia draws me in heavily along with plenty of other people, so I like this download indicator better despite how mostly unhelpful it is for showing, you know, how much of the thing you have downloaded so far.

Museum of Virtual History: Las Meninas Play Wii Bowling

Item #2: Las Meninas Play Wii Bowling

As has been documented by the likes of Penny Arcade, the seventh generation console race has been characterized by a need to place one's console in the pole position as far as history is concerned. For this, Nintendo needed only to point out Diego Velazquez' Las Meninas Play Wii Bowling to immediately prove that the Wii had been enjoyed by people from a simpler time.