I don't own a next gen console, I still enjoy playing my n64... surfing the internet is enough of a mind trip for me I don't really care about video games much, I would rather read a book. I'll be interested when artificial intelligence (advanced enough to do everything a human can but faster) will be able to on demand conjure up virtual worlds for me to play in... but that's perhaps 20 years from now so until then I don't know if I shall be buying any consoles due to the expense involved.
Still... I find it interesting to track the progress of video gaming, and with the late victory of Blu-ray, and with PS3 being the cheapest blu ray player on the market, I expect the PS3 will experience an increase in sales disproportionate to the usual when speaking in terms of the market surrounding video games. The element employed here, the inclusion of bluray to the ps3 hardware, is a remarkable testament to the achievement of foresight and market analysis (or just plain luck), either way what we have here may be a jump in sales unprecedented in the video games industry, something which Microsoft and Nintendo may struggle to handle.
If I do come into any money I will be using it to buy a ps3, though not for a few years, as it stands I don't think any games on any console out now are particularly ground-breaking and entertaining as they may be in a few years to come. And if sony do get a considerable share of the gaming market, which now it would seem they have the edge to grab, it will co-mingle with the console's superior computing ability and bring forth more of the games that truly begin to define an entertainment medium...
Either way you look at it there's a huge chance that the very best games by the end of the this generation will be found on the ps3, the variable is how many of them we get and how good. With the recent success in the format war, we can expect it to do the opposite of what many traditional gamers were afraid of, which would be the Wii's success halting progress in gaming...
Not to say there isn't room for motion sensor control, I was very interested at the concept, but after trying my hand at it, and being dissapointed at the level to which the remote actually performs (which in fairness is actually quite low) and also seeing no promising implementation of this aspect in any future games, at least nothing with which to surpass the level of gaming even already achieved on the ps3 and 360.. I feel that the remote was a generation or two too early... and certainly wasn't worth the expense to the computing power.
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