Going on 6 years after the first resection of my high-grade glioma in 2001.
There is life after brain tumors, and it's reassuring to know that there may be options if it ever comes back.
Do you have any evidence at all that gaming "addicts" are a problem? Even the examples from TFA seem to indicate the problem is self-limiting. Certainly no where near the issue that drug addiction is.
The people who are showing up at the clinics should be evidence enough. At least THEY consider it to be a problem. Who are you to dispute that?
The people shown as examples of gaming addicts are only hurting themselves financially and socially.
Yes, and that's why, like virtually every other psychological disorder that exists, it's considered a problem.
They aren't dying, or commiting crimes, or selling their bodies; this is nothing remotely like crack addiction.
Because they're not prostituting themselves, dying or committing criminal behavior, it's not a problem? That's your threshold for whether someone is deserving of help?
The Launch: Microsoft did a decent job hyping the system, but the launch was, on balance, weak. You had your brief hysteria of $5,000 systems on eBay, but it died down fairly quickly. You had serious supply issues--to the point where it hurt more than helped. You had the whole power supply issue. You had decent games, but no "killer title" that made you want to go out and get it.
Today: The games are still pretty pedestrian--the operative word is "prettier", which will only get you so far. Now that the insanity of the launch period has passed, there isn't much about the XBox 360 that appeals to the average consumer--it's expensive, it has decent games but nothing "must-have", and finally, it's expensive. $350 for the system and $50-60 games is simply too expensive for the casual gamer.
Assuming this is all true, it makes the XBox 360 no different from virtually any game system that has ever launched: supply problems, too expensive for the "average consumer" (whatever that means, though I guess that means only "above average" consumers were waiting in line to buy them), not enough quality games, some defective units, etc. And as it was for the PS2, it will be no different for the PS3, except by then M$ will drop the price and throw down the latest iteration of Halo. Not a bad place to be in while Sony and/or Nintendo are dealing with the issues Xbox has already moved past.
As for the Revolution. Betting on a "user interface" as you put it seems quite the risk. I can't imagine 13 year old children begging their parents to buy a Revolution so they can try that fancy new "user interface." We can only hope it fares better than the Power Glove.
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Going on 6 years after the first resection of my high-grade glioma in 2001. There is life after brain tumors, and it's reassuring to know that there may be options if it ever comes back.
Do you have any evidence at all that gaming "addicts" are a problem? Even the examples from TFA seem to indicate the problem is self-limiting. Certainly no where near the issue that drug addiction is.
The people who are showing up at the clinics should be evidence enough. At least THEY consider it to be a problem. Who are you to dispute that?
The people shown as examples of gaming addicts are only hurting themselves financially and socially.
Yes, and that's why, like virtually every other psychological disorder that exists, it's considered a problem.
They aren't dying, or commiting crimes, or selling their bodies; this is nothing remotely like crack addiction.
Because they're not prostituting themselves, dying or committing criminal behavior, it's not a problem? That's your threshold for whether someone is deserving of help?
But a company that charges nothing has nothing to lose for creating a terrible service.
The Launch: Microsoft did a decent job hyping the system, but the launch was, on balance, weak. You had your brief hysteria of $5,000 systems on eBay, but it died down fairly quickly. You had serious supply issues--to the point where it hurt more than helped. You had the whole power supply issue. You had decent games, but no "killer title" that made you want to go out and get it.
Today: The games are still pretty pedestrian--the operative word is "prettier", which will only get you so far. Now that the insanity of the launch period has passed, there isn't much about the XBox 360 that appeals to the average consumer--it's expensive, it has decent games but nothing "must-have", and finally, it's expensive. $350 for the system and $50-60 games is simply too expensive for the casual gamer.
Assuming this is all true, it makes the XBox 360 no different from virtually any game system that has ever launched: supply problems, too expensive for the "average consumer" (whatever that means, though I guess that means only "above average" consumers were waiting in line to buy them), not enough quality games, some defective units, etc. And as it was for the PS2, it will be no different for the PS3, except by then M$ will drop the price and throw down the latest iteration of Halo. Not a bad place to be in while Sony and/or Nintendo are dealing with the issues Xbox has already moved past.
As for the Revolution. Betting on a "user interface" as you put it seems quite the risk. I can't imagine 13 year old children begging their parents to buy a Revolution so they can try that fancy new "user interface." We can only hope it fares better than the Power Glove.