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Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday?
First time accepted submitter undulato writes "I've got an aging, fat PS3 with only a couple of games that I still play on it but three kids under 9 who love Skylanders, iPet, Lego whatever etc. We all watch movies on it and it has been pretty much the centre of our entertainment world for a few years now. I've already got a spare HDMI monitor we could use for a screen so my question is — should we go for a new console this Christmas? Just buy another controller or two and a new game or two for PS3 and be done? Or get the still pretty viable Xbox 360, or even plump for a cheap Wii or even a Wii U if we're feeling flush. What do you think?"
Buy them baseball bats - if you live in a safe area they can play ball - if you don't they can join a gang! Win-Win!
And get raped and killed, great idea.
They live near a church?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
This is a forum dedicated to uncontrolled mass consumption. We don't want your charitable kind around here. Don't you have a dank alley to patrol for losers?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Use Steam and a Linux Box, later, your sons will play less and learn more, because they will have all the free tools to learn.
Why don't you ask your children what console they want? Chances are they will be very disappointed by whatever group consensus you will get from Slashdot, which will probably be some Linux based 10 year old shoebox computer running Steam beta...
Yep, 5 comments up "Use Steam and a Linux Box"...sigh.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
It was good enough for granddad; it's good enough for anyone.
Just don't get the SP2 update. It bricked my etch-a-sketch and ToysRUs refuses to refund me.
What could go wrong?
This one time, at band camp...
Sure, but you must be in the minority, my xbox 360 not only plays the greatest games but will connect to Office 365 so you can enjoy the latest in productivity applications when the kids aren't using it with their Kinect, and you can also get a great Windows Phone 8 and connect to it using Microsoft Smartglass for the latest in fully immersive entertainment control.
Why not Bing these to find out more?
(think I got the full set in there, where's my bonus?)