4 Wheel Madness Game
4 Wheel Madness Game
Console Madness
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As I walk to work through the financial district of San Francisco every day, I always causally glance at the various newspaper vending machines to see what the headlines are. It's not often I do a double-take (that just goes with my increasing jaded attitude toward news) but the other day…the other day USA Today featured a front-page banner that read "PS3 vs. Wii." This is USA Today material now? I guess so. I guess there can be no more argument about whether or not gaming has "arrived" as fully mainstream entertainment when USA Today is writing front-page preview fodder about the impending console wars. And hey, where's the Xbox 360? It's just as next-gen as the others…but it shipped on time, a year ago.
It seems like every technology blog, every gaming website, and any publication about anything is getting in on the action. I wouldn't be surprised to find a feature on the next-gen console wars in Better Homes and Gardens. The PR and marketing reps for Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are working overtime, sending out machines to every publication under the sun, courting them with press previews, and spending record dollars on advertising campaigns. And while I was playing through some Gears of War co-op with my girlfriend the other day (hands off guys, you can't have her), I started to wonder if we're all so into the "war" that we can't see the forest for the trees anymore. It has become more about "winning," about features checklists, about tracking sales figures and spouting anecdotal reports, than about having fun playing games. Continued…
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Source: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/73220-console-madness
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