Alright, so as far as the market is concerned, it’s been a year since the new “next generation consoles” came around. I’ve been saving up money for a while and just got even more thanks to graduation gifts, but see, I’m having the same trouble that I’ve been having for a few months now: I haven’t seen anything I want to spend my money on!

So, yup. That’s the dismal truth: all three of these systems have failed to woo me.

The Wii seemed like it would be great, and I’m sure it is to an extent since it sounds like Nintendo delivered on the fundamental things they promised, but the way I see it a system can only be as good as its games, and the Wii to me seems to be severely lacking in this area. I mean, for Pete’s sake, all they had to do for me was put out a Star Wars game here (nothing against the Lego games, but they’re not what I’m talking about), a good first-person shooter with online play there, and maybe a Gundam Wing game since I’m the one writing this miniature wishlist. Blah, I don’t know. I can’t actually even think of all that many games I’d be demanding because I’ve gotten so out of touch with gaming in general.

The Xbox360 has the opposite problem for me though. It seems to have a pretty wide selection of interesting games (that one called “Assassin’s Creed” looks pretty cool to me), but the system itself has never managed to blow me over. I mean, I’m all for graphical improvements, but it seems like that’s the only real hook for the core system itself aside from having an HD-DVD player, which is definitely not a feature that would make me buy a game console.

And as for the PS3, I saw on either Slashdot or Digg not even a month ago that they were just getting to the point where its games could not be copied by the Xbox360 in terms of graphic firepower and whatnot. That’s a funny enough little tidbit by itself in more than one way. But the sadness reflected by that lack of progress is only compounded by the fact that, really, nobody has a PS3 that I know anyway, so I can’t really see it for myself anyhow. Which just goes to show how few people I’d be playing with on top of all of that.

I was really expecting one of the systems to fill my teenage male mind with envy by now. But time passed and my savings just kind of built up, and up, and up. I apathetically/disappointedly saved up right past the quotas for the Wii, then the Xbox360, and now even the PS3. And nothing else even outside the video game world has really taken my interest either. This is just getting pathetic. It’s not even that I’m trying to be frugal, either. I’ve now resorted to milling through travel sites looking at prices for plane tickets (and recently, even cruises) to places I want to see.

Honestly though, I’m hoping somebody will be able to show me something to make me want one of the game systems since they’d last a little bit longer than a week in the Bahamas. Maybe I’ll buy that person a cookie, too. Or that failing, maybe I’ll save up even longer and get some stocks.

Bah. Somebody find me something fun and wasteful.

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