I bought the new issue of Play magazine (the US Play Magazine that is a multiconsole mag and the direct descendant of America's greatest videogame magazine ever -- Diehard Gamefan and not the UK's Play Magazine which is a Playstation only mag), and in the latest US Play, they have an extensive section where each of the magazine's editors list their three favorite and least favorite trends that they see in gaming going into 2009. And in her section Heather Anne Campbell says this:
"#5 (best thing): The Playstation 3 becomes the new Saturn.
"The people who love the PS3 can already feel it happening. The PS3 is going to become this generation's Saturn/Dreamcast, a place where hardcore loyalists carve out a corner for games that will stand the test of time as true classics. We might like games on the 360, but we'll love games on the Playstation. The PS3 already has the prerequisite for being the long term darling of this generation: geeky tech fetishism. Think of the Dreamcast. Think of the NEO-GEO. Too advanced for their time, too daringly technical . . . these systems were home to some of the best games ever made."
--Heather Anne Campbell in Play Magazine Volume Eight: Issue Four. Kingdom Under Fire II Issue In the article, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Trends of 2009" pg. 22.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
