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I thought you had a 360, though, which is what I don't get.

No one knows how much the 3DS will even be in anywhere except Japan. Japanese prices are nearly always greater than NA/European prices.

I think you just listed all the reasons I don't have a gaming PC already, but I've always liked something about PC gaming...

Anyway, building my own PC will be fun.

Something else I don't get is that many games try to focus on naturalistic graphics and trying to make things look as much like real life as possible, even on the Wii. Sure, sometimes the Wii gets cartoony graphics, with stuff like its equivalent of the sports games, but why don't more companies try being stylistic? I'm not just talking about slapping some cel-shading on a b***h and calling it a day, either. Games are like paintings. They're like animation, except better. You can make things look however you want, yet many games are just striving to look like real life, and many others are just putting cel-shading on, and then the rest are either falling back onto "retro gaming graphics" or some other fallback. Developers should just go nuts.

I totally agree. :/ I think that with the next generation of consoles graphics will look just like real life and quality of graphics will just be down to how dedicated the developers are. I hope that maybe people will eventually get bored of making realistic graphics and put that graphical power to good use. They could make all kinds of crazy s**t beyond your wildest dreams.

Oh s**t, no drama homework this week. It's an online course so it's just like I get a week off of class. Wow.

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I still don't think we're going to have "real life" graphics next-gen, but I could be wrong. All games that I see on the PS360 that are "impressive" have lighting and effects that I don't even see in real life. Before this generation came out, remember all the games with all the browns and greys and then all the bloom? I hardly ever see bloom in real life, and when I do, it's because my glasses are dirty. Developers are so fascinated with effects that they are now overusing them.

It's getting to the point where developers are having to put so much time into just animating facial expressions for every single game that they're becoming monumental to develop. With each leap we spend more money on making games, and for what? I feel like artistic games can stray from what will become "blockbuster games" and some games will truly be groundbreaking when they do something like famous artists did before them. Things that have never been seen before, and gaming will truly come into itself.

Amazon rules. The SP books are hella cheap on there right now too. I thought about ordering them.