Do I want any of HD consoles right now ? No.
Some reasons :
- most games are or will be available on PC. I've always played on computers, and don't intend on stopping. I may not of the hardware right now to play every new games, but I can always wait a couple years (for a new PC upgrade) to play them.
- I find a lot of games I enjoy playing on the Wii. Combined with gaming on DS, PC, my new PS2, and all the retro gaming (I've being buying quite a few older games lately), I have a lot to play already. I don't understand those "hardcore gamers" who always whine about not having enough games to play. I find too many games I want to play, and too little time and money.
- a lot of the good HD console games are First/Third Person Shooters, which is a genre for which I already have a huge backlog of games waiting to be played. It's really hard for me to be hyped about new/future FPS including on the platform I own (although they seem nice, Crysis, The Conduit,... don't interested me much for the moment).
- they're big. It may seem silly, but I don't have that much room and my gaming hobby takes already a lot of space with my current consoles, older ones and all the games. I don't know anyone as much into gaming as me in real life and I don't need to own the newest HD consoles just to be even more "hardcore" than I already am.
- I don't own a HDTV. The whole thing about HD and graphics is not a selling point for me. I'm used to waiting for games that I can't be played on my current hardware. I'm used to playing PC games on low/medium settings and still enjoy them.
I'm not saying I wouldn't want one of those HD consoles someday, but right now I don't see the point. I'll probably get one later on, when they have more exclusive games, when I've upgraded to an HDTV, when they are cheap...
