Console launches in general are usually pretty dissapointing, or soon lead to disappointment. The 360 had a very bad launch lineup, and the PS3's was only a little better. The Wii had the best lineup, but some of the games, like you said, can get pretty trite after awhile. It is just one of the costs of being an early adopter to have to deal with the initial fumblings of launch.
The 360 is coming into its own, but does to some degree neglect other gamers besides shooter fans. It has RPG's, but Blue Dragon is hit or miss, and Eternal Sonata is coming to PS3 eventually. You won't hear me say a bad thing about Lost Odyssey though, cause that game looks really good.
I think all the consoles have a strong lineup this holiday, and I think the PS3 has the best post-holiday lineup with Infamous (possibly), Little Big Planet, and Killzone 2.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
