One of the most annoying cliches in gaming is that games don't sell outside of the holiday season. That is how game companies excuse their usual dearth of high-quality games outside of Q4 of most years. 
 
It has been one of the dumbest ideas in gaming and has been self-defeating for years. Numerous excellent titles just die a slow retail death because there are so many games in October - December that it's really hard to make an impact. 
 
For the last year or two, though, game companies seem willing to release high-profile titles in "odd" months for the gaming community. Just this year, we've had Darksiders, Bayonetta, Splinter Cell Conviction, God of War III, and Mass Effect 2 launched outside of gaming "prime time" season and all have done fairly well and have shown that gamers are quite willing to sit inside and play games when it's really cold outside. And, hopefully, they will also realize that when it's brutally hot outside...games aren't a bad idea, either.
 
This is a change I applaud and hope to see continue onwards indefinitely. No more overloading Q4. There are three other quarters and they are more than capable of providing sales to a quality title.  Possibly even moreso than Q4, when there are far more things fighting for your dollar.

Microsoft and Sony seem to banking, heavily, that motion control is still the wave of the future.
 
Yet, sales numbers for the Wii indicate that it is starting fizzle out.
 
It seems baffling that they cannot see the same numbers we see here and not have some serious concerns.
 
I know they believe that "Well, the Wii has a terrible library" and all...which is undoubtedly true...but the library was pretty bad a year ago or so when nobody could unseat them in the sales without some huge title hitting. The 360 unseated Wii this past month with no significant releases or major price cuts. 
 
That is what one would call an "omen".
 
Natal and Move seem poised to hit the market at the worst possible time...and the releases are likely to end up big deals. Microsoft, in particular, has heavily invested in their tech, so they really can't walk away from it. Sony hasn't been nearly as vested in Move as MS was in Natal, so they might be more capable of cutting their losses.
 
But this just seems like an extremely poor idea. And one that they will spend millions upon millions on.

This is a test. More inanity is surely to come later.