Oy vey.....I gotta say, as a Neutral aligned gamer, The competition is seeming to get dull.
"My portable has a Gyroscope"
"So does mine, huurr"
I mean com'on. Gaming used to be about who your favorite mascot was, not what gimmick "your company" put into their newest system.
I gotta hand it to the Big Sony though, they sure do know how to pack as much useless crap into a console as possible. GPS? What the hell do I need GPS for in a Console. It's not a friggin tom-tom.
And just so it doesn't seem like I'm bashing Sony alone, allow me to say this; the 3DS is just as gimmicky as the NGP. Glasses-less 3D is gonna be the norm in about 10-15 years tops. Mark my words on it. The only reason it's so appealing now is its "New and fresh".
But based on my two console choices, would I rather pay 250 dollars for a handheld that's gonna have Wifi, great 3rd party support, and pretty much everything else the NGP has minus badass graphics and a second analog stick, or would I rather pay, what I'm guesstimating at, at least 350-400 dollars for a system that, in my honest opinion, is just gonna see the same fate as it's predecessor? The choice is obvious.
tl;dr - Consoles now-a-days are ridiculous, and relay too much on gimmicks to be their selling point, instead of which companies are backing which systems. /endrant
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