Lately all I've been playing is New Super Mario Bros for DS.The reason is because I wanna play something simple and fun and I don't feel like investing time into another JRPG or puzzley action/adventure game such as Zelda Twilight Princess but that will change after Lightning Returns is released.Super Mario World is much better than New Super Mario Bros DS but it's much more challenging and I want to play a game in which I won't die a lot :P

Lately I've seen many people saying the 8th gen will be the last gen for gaming consoles at least for a while and many people have said they will become a PC only gamer after the 7th gen is finished.Lets say hypothetically there is no more gaming consoles after the 8th gen it will be sad in a way because I have so many happy memories thanks to Nintendo,SEGA and SONY consoles and Nintendo have been releasing gaming consoles and Mario games ever since I was a kid back in the 80's.However PC gaming is nowhere near as popular in Japan as it is in the west or in other Asian countries and the most popular games in Japan are usually exclusive to a certain console.Many great Japanese games don't even get localized,maybe future Japanese consoles won't be released outside of Japan if console sales go down heavily.I mean there is certain Japanese consoles such as the Wonderswan that were only officially released in Japan.

I can kinda see why many westerners and people in other parts of Asia are joining the gaming PC bandwagon since laptops are very affordable now and since FPS,WRPG and western developed games are popular in the west and numerous Asian countries and people can play them on PC with better graphics and lets face it a PC and the internet is a becoming a necessity of life and gaming consoles were a fun toy in the past and the PS3 tried to imitate a PC but people can buy a better PC for around roughly the same price but they'll miss out on great PS3 exclusives games.

However,I'm still willing to buy a console if it has exclusives I want to play.I'll always prefer JRPGs over WRPGs and I'll never be a big fan of FPS games and I'll always want to play the new Mario games which means I will need to buy new consoles for that.Games such as the Final Fantasy games,The Last Story,Lost Odyssey,Yakuza 4,Mario,the good Sonic games,Shenmue series,Persona 3 and 4 and Clannad are the main reasons I've stayed a gamer,if Japanese game developers stopped making games tomorrow I'd quit gaming and I'm not BSing about that.Sure there's great western games but I've played few western games that are good enough to make me wanna buy a console to play them,the only 2 I can think off the top of my head are the MEGA DRIVE version of Aladdin and Heavy Rain.

Speaking of Final Fantasy,Square Enix really needs to localize Final Fantasy Type 0,FF Type 0 has already been developed and if it were released for Vita it would boost Vita sales a lot and if it ends up being well-liked by many people it can bring fans back to Square Enix who've given up on them already.Sure people want to see FF vs XIII but FF type 0 has already been developed! Look at the beautiful world for FF Type 0 and how awesome the battle system looks,are you telling me JRPG fans wouldn't want to play this game?