Office of the Don #10: Console Me
Greetings, Browncoats!
Some of you may be aware that Anime Mid-Atlantic is this weekend in my backyard of Virginia Beach. Some of you may be excited to go. Me? I’ll be there on Saturday, but I have a different reason to be excited.
Tomorrow I am finally joining the rest of the Next-Gen Console folk. I’m getting a PS3.
“Why the PS3?” you ask. Excellent! I’m so glad we’re back to our usual conversations! You’ve been quiet for awhile. It’s so nice to be talking again.
But anyway, back to your question.
My reasons for choosing the PS3 are simple. BLUE RAY. Not too long ago (before I moved into my current humble abode), my DVD player decided he didn’t like me anymore and departed for that place that unused Beta recorders and Scott Baio’s career go. And we all know which disc won the most recent movie media format war.
That’s right. Scott Baio.
Wait, what? NO.
So yeah – Blue Ray won. Now, put two and two together, mix with tapioca pudding, and voila! We just made a mess. And I decided that getting a PS3 would not only solve my DVD playing issues, but would also finally give me the ability to play all of the next-gen games I’ve been wanting to play for quite some time.
Not only that, but I have a PSP. So now I can finally download PS1 games to play on my Portable. With that option now open to me, I may actually finish some of those PS1 games that have been sitting on my shelf unfulfilled. What? I said I’d call them. I didn’t say when.
With all that in mind, I’m pretty excited to be picking it up tomorrow, er… I mean my lovely wife will be picking it up for me tomorrow while I’m at work. And the timing couldn’t be better – tomorrow is the day they release the 80GB bundle pack with Metal Gear Solid 4. Between that and the other two games I picked up the other day, I have plenty to be excited about.
Tapioca pudding.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Alright. This is the column that convinced me. You’re going on my blogroll now.
I can’t say that I’ve ever had the same console envy problems that other gamers do because not only am I happy that the PS2 I bought off of eBay (and came with the HD, the online adapter [I think], a headset microphone, and two controllers for less than $150 including S&H–BOOYEAH!), I’m not that much of a hardcore A/V geek because I save up my pennies for other things. Still, I’m glad that you’re happy with your decision.