Okay, first and foremost, I love video gaming - I've been playing video games for almost all of my life and have survived the horror stories that I'd become a homicidal maniac by playing too much doom or suffering from epileptic seizures from playing Nintendo games.
Thing is, we're now going into a new generation of consoles and console games and am I the only one who finds the prices of these things prohibitively expensive? I'm looking at the prices of hardware and your Playstation 3 is going to be around GBP 550 with games coming in at a whopping GBP 50 a shot! I'm sorry but I just cannot justify shelling out that amount of money on a game. But don't worry, I could just settle for an XBox 360 at GBP 270 with games only being a snip at GBP 40 a shot. The games industry has said "We need to price up games because they cost a lot more to produce now on the newer hardware". To be honest, I think that's absolute piffle. I was in Japan over Christmas and the 360 games were selling at under GBP 30 a shot and still are. That I can afford, but 40-50 quid a pop is just too much for me. I think I'm going to stick with PC gaming for now and throw in the towel on console games. Hmm, I wonder why this is called Rip-off Britain?
It is a shame though - I wanted to get a PS3 as it stands as a legacy for a friend of mine who worked on the console itself during its build, but sadly passed away before its completion.