Wii v/s PS3 - Emotional issues

I wanted to give my son the best deal on his birthday and of course wanted the value for money spent. Looking at the feature list , I went for PS3. Though it was double the price I kept on as I wanted to buy something that will last at least couple of years before the pressure for new Gizmo start buckling my son (and me)

Couple of my friends bought Wii around the same time. Amazing things these little toys brought to my behavior! For first , I found myself advocating PS3. We got into almost feature by feature comparison. Of course nothing beats PS3. What brought me down was the fact that my son was gradually moving into Wii camp.

Here I was .. after making hell of an effort in research and making sure that I buy a pricier/ better product (at 750 bucks), I was explaining to kids that PS3 is a far superior machine .. It can play Blue rays and DVDs. You can hook USB external discs with all your pics, videos and songs. You can of course stream the media from any of your laptop. You browse internet and play "You Tube" wiith fair amount of speed and easy ..(well little difficulty) .. and on top of all this ..you can install Linux ..

Here goes my son (and his friend) .,...but who the hell want all these ? ...all we wanna do is hit he tennis ball ..