I was out shopping for a UPS the other day after the power went out at home and I encountered a strange thing while pricing at Circuit City.
There were several tents erected outside the from door of the Circuit City store. What the heck?
At first I thought they must be selling tents. Then I wondered why Circuit City was selling tents. Then I realized that these were PS3 buyers.
I’m not really excited about the PS3. Apart from it making the price of the PS2 go down, it’s a really expensive console that isn’t going to bring much new to the table. Sure, it’s more powerful, but what I’ve really been waiting for is games that are more fun.
Which brings me back to Nintendo. I’ve bought a few Gameboy DS games lately, and they’re all fun.
I don’t know why I like Cooking Mama. You just cook food. There really isn’t all that much of an accomplishment system. Sure you can do a bad job cooking, but that rarely so hard that you do less than good. But playing the game is fun. I can’t quantify why. But this particular game has whatever it is that I’m lacking on all of my big console games.
That’s why I’m looking forward to tomorrow (it is tomorrow, right?) with the launch of Nintendo’s Wii. It’s the first Nintendo game system that I’ve really wanted to have since college when the lure of Mario was just too strong to resist. From what I understand, I should be able to play my current Game Cube games on it, as well as games from their old Nintendo catalog via their netwroking service. It’ll be cool to play classic NES and SNES games on the big screen.
I spent a half hour on XBox support today trying to work out why my wireless networking adapter suddenly won’t work any more. I think I’m just going to grab a wireless bridge while I’m out today. It just goes to show that if you spend $500 on something, you still have to deal with any issues that might render it brick-like. And the PS3 is more expensive than that.
It should be an interesting holiday season, games-wise.
