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Life After the Videogame Crash

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-out-below dept.

Clark Hall writes "Is it 1983 all over again? E3 is over and millions of gamers are realizing they can't afford a PS3, or an HDTV. Is it time for a steep and painful correction in the gaming market? Pointlesswasteoftime has been tracking what is looking like a Hindenburg voyage for console gaming, with HDTV playing the role of Hydrogen." From the article: "There's going to be a lot of money lost the next few years, a lot of articles written, a lot of panic, a lot of changes. And when gaming comes back, it will hopefully be different and innovative and based on something other than eye candy and the shock value of blood and guts and hookers. Hopefully it will allow for creativity from the players, and room for small, independent game makers to create content. Hopefully it will be something every working person can afford. "

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  1. Re:You can afford HDTV and video consoles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    People live paycheck to paycheck because they had kids.

    Expensive little monkeys...

  2. Re:won't be like this forever by ZakuSage · · Score: 2, Funny

    This just proves a very good point: It is the fault of the US government that HDTV isn't widely used.

  3. Re:You can afford HDTV and video consoles by Dis*abstraction · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, people have kids because they live paycheck to paycheck. Basic evolutionary biology, people.

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  4. I'm tempted by Hakubi_Washu · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bought the original PS when I could get it, completely modded, for 150DM, I've skipped the second generation completely so far, but I'm tempted (especially since I'm moving to an all-free-software PC) to try the third. So, Wii, XBoX360 and PS3 are my options:

    Wii It has a crappy name, but looks halfway decent. The price seems to be ok (I'm not that much of a video gamer, as you might have concluded by now), but I'll probably not be happy with the game choices (I never had a thing for Nintendo titles, which is why I didn't even own a GameBoy back then). Also: Why have a wireless controller and attach a second doohickey to it by cable? The Nunchuk is pretty dumb, I'd say, give me two wireless controllers instead, so I can move my arms apart... XBoX360 Aside from my near-universal contempt for Microsoft (They have only made two products I didn't find utterly crappy, QB4.5 (which still had some stupid memory-limits) and the original Intellimouse Explorer (three of which died in a two-year period), which was finally a mouse big enough for my paws) and the well known problems (noise, overheating)? Maybe I'm not that interested in a PC-in-disguise and don't want a miserable online-shop? PS3 Damn, that thing is expensive and ugly as hell. Did those designers watch too many 50s space operas? Ugh. In addition to that, I don't trust anything Sony after the Rootkit-shit and have not bought a single Sony product since then. But on the other hand, it'll probably feature the most interesting games (mainly japanese rpgs, though Nintendo also had a few gems there...)

    So, what am I to do? Enlighten me! :-P