Right. So, hopefully you’re already familiar with Thursday’s big news. For once I was actually at my desk when the news hit, and I was able to get up a story 4 minutes after Gamasutra and 15 minutes after Kotaku. That’s close enough to the zone to satisfy me.

There’s going to be a lot, a *lot*, of talk about Nintendo’s system between now and E3. I think by dropping the name they’ve effectively choked off any wondering-out-loud that folks were doing about the PS3. We know that system’s name, we know what it is about, and we’re going to see games for it at E3. Even though we’re all looking forward to the shiny, we know generally what we’re going to see. (Killzone, Metal Gear 4, etc.) Nintendo, though … even with the couple of details dropped along with the name, it’s still something of a mystery.

Even the games that we’re fully aware of so far are shakeups. Red Steel is a Yakuza shooter, Sadness is black-and-white film noir, and Madden is going to be a football game I might actually play. No ‘kiddie’ games, nothing super sacharine.

So, the question is … what are the first MMOGs on the Wii going to look like?