What I Don't Want: No more peripheral devices. No more motion-control wands, vitality sensors, or weird touchscreen controllers; let's focus on making games that master the controllers we already own.

A new Power Glove would be pretty sweet, though.

Nate Ralph is PCWorld's desktops guru. He likes MMOs, punching trees to find goodies, and megalomaniacal AIs.

What I Want: If we've learned one important lesson from the success of the Wii (or Apple's iOS juggernaut), it's that specs are largely irrelevant. The success of Nintendo's next platform (and Microsoft's and Sony's, for that matter) will depend largely on offering fresh, groundbreaking gameplay.

I doubt Nintendo will see the error of its ways and kill off those onerous Friend Codes once and for all. But accessible, robust online connectivity is pretty much mandatory--for gaming with friends, and (more important) downloading new content.