The user describes the process of buying Wii points as "utterly painless", he does however show a certain level of dismay at having to shell out his money to purchase the games. This is certainly good to know, as I was a little worried Nintendo wouldn't be able to keep the system simple to use, because of how complicated it is.

He is not entirely happy with the system though. He found that when he ran the games on a wide screen tv, the aspect ratio would be stretched to fit the screen. Requiring him to manually change it back, which as you can imagine, could get very annoying. He was also unhappy with the lack of TurboGrafx games on launch, although I hardly think that will be a view held by many.

I myself can say I am slightly disappointed with the virtual console games available from the launch. As announced the system has launched with twelve games:

• Donkey Kong (NES)

• Legend of Zelda (NES)

• Mario Bros. (NES)

• Soccer (NES)

• Pinball (NES)

• Wario's Woods (NES)

• Solomon's Key (NES)

• F-Zero (SNES)

• Sim City (SNES)

• Altered Beast (GEN)

• Sonic (GEN)

• Super Mario 64 (64)

There are a few classics there such as Super Mario 64, but some titles on that list, I have to wander as to why they have been included in the first place. I do not even recognize some of the games on that list, let alone regard them as classics. Luckily enough Nintendo have promised 30 games before Christmas, so hopefully we will see a much more solid line-up for the virtual console. I for one would like to see some more N64 games on that list.

The menu system allows users to search games by console, date added or alphabetically. Which again shows how Nintendo have tried to keep it simple. In the future I would like to see some sort of rating system, so users can search through games based on their rankings on the system.

When first using the system the user is presented with a green bar, which shows that the system is connected. They then are given the option to choose their region settings, once these are set, the user then has to go through another upgrade, after which parental settings will be set and the user has access to the on line services offered by Nintendo.