Certainly been an eventful time for me lately, life seems to be going well, at least from a professional stand point that is and I am starting to really get together enough content to know what I want to be doing with certain things so hopefully I will be putting that into action too.
Anyway from a gaming stand point it's been a great start to the year with the 3DS just around the corner, which I have mine pre ordered and an excellent bonus that Europe for once will be getting before North America, and also with the announcement of Sony's new NGP, which look like its predecessor the PSP to push the limits of what a hand held can do both from a graphical point of view and a technology point of view, but much like the PSP will it make the same mistakes? Sure having all that tech inside is nice but if it costs too much it may cripple sales from the start, I just hope in a way that they don't end up following that same path I'm sure much can be argued in Sony's favour as much as it can be against them, but entering a generation with the most technically advanced system has yet to ever work from a sales stand point as making it the best seller. As with the past though the Sony hype machine has started with claims that it can produce PS3 quality graphics. If it is anything like previous claims of what they have said their consoles can do it may become far wide of that mark, although early evidence certainly support that they may be true in those claims, although what will that do to the eventual price of the system?
Although with all this focus on the 3DS it makes me wonder if many developers will switch their focus from the Wii as has been the case with previous Nintendo consoles with the launch of a new hand held, and as it stands the Wii's line up so far this year outside of Japan doesn't read too well although here is hoping some of those current Japan only games like The Last Story and Xenoblade do make there way to other regions as they seem to be some of the best Wii games made, couple them with Zelda: Skyward Sword and the eventual possibility of Dragon Quest X and it could well be the best year for RPG and adventure fans the Wii has ever had.
That's no to say Nintendo won't be showing off a better line up at some point latter this year, just because that line up is looking a bit slim right now doesn't mean it will be for the rest of the year, I am just hoping some third party developers still look into releasing some exclusive games designed for the Wii, because other than Conduit 2, which is probably considered the biggest marmite game that's coming out for the Wii as you either love it for what it is or hate it for what it's not, but other than that and potentially The Grinder from High Voltage Software there are very few games designed for the Wii in mind.
Saying that as long as it's an overall good year for games I'll be very happy as I'm sure ill be two busy with just a handful of games anyway , but still would be nice to have a decent choice, after the last year the Wii has become a real contender for my time with all the quality titles released last year, lets hope it's not just a one good year thing.