Wii gets the table, Playstation gets the floor

In a tiny rowhouse in Hammersmith, a mother who works seven days a week has managed to provide her two kids with every digital necessity. The 11-year-old boy's Wii rules his room's most prominent corner. He even uses it to search the web, as his 12-year-old his sister begrudges him computer time. Of course, she never lets him touch her iPod or CD player, either.

Finally, he has a bargaining chip. Unlike the kicked-aside Playstation and his box turtle, this the first posession he owns that she covets.