I enjoy gaming. I think its only gonna get better from here on out. Cant wait for nextbox/ps4 to come out. Hopefully this time around there will be more than just exclusives differentiating them. If nextbox/ps4 have basically the same games again, with pretty much the same graphics. I will only purchase one of them launch day. The other will wait til it gets price cut. Wii U was the only must have system for me this gen. Nintendo had me sold once they slapped HD on it and got rid of the waggle sticks.

It's epic isn't it?! I always play as Andriel - she's the bomb :)

I am retreating back to tabletop gaming stuff and retro at this point.  I have not dusted off my 360 in a number of weeks.  Do some Minecraft from time to time though, just to do it and make tweaks.

So, as of now Borderlands 2 and Oblivion aren't being played.

No - I'm not losing it, as I already lost it a decade ago. However, the DS and Wii were delightful exeptions with interesting games.

Too bad the third party support (if you can call it support, as most of the 3rd party ranged from insulting to moderate, just like on other consoles) weren't there anymore when Nintendo started shifting focus to 3DS and Wii U.

Maybe not all hope is lost; there are some interesting games either coming for Wii U or already there, that could get me to buy Wii U (as soon as there's white premium model available). And besides, Nintendo already found a way to sell games and consoles to people like me, so when the sales start lagging behind, Nintendo will release games that will get attention. If Iwata can't make the Nintendo devs to do it - the board will find someone who can.

Lost it a long time ago.

I think that there is a problem with target markets that companies tend to provide games to. And I think there is just too much gaming. You can't expect to grow year after year when a lot of people also have the possibility to game on their phones casually. And publishers apparantly have a strong need to deliver console games to them resulting in easy, bad, rushed games that are not fun at all. I also think that those companies don't even know why a game can be succesfull or not. Now sales are in a decline but when PS4 and the new Xbox arrive it could grow again.

Some points of interest in the gaming industry:

- there must be a clear line of what kind of game a company will be releasing (identity)
- It shouldn' be rushed at all, no annoying launch bugs for exemple (quality)
- No major focus on DLC. Better use DLC as fun extra's or good expansions (BFBC2: Vietnam was good the 12 euros I paid for, BF3 B2K should have been cheaper around 8 euros instead of 15) worth the money and launch the game with enough content. (Quantity)

Wow, I've never heard that before. For me the mid to late 90s was the golden age of video games.

Yes, I share most of these sentiments.  I was never into console gaming until Wii pulled me in with motion controls but after Wii Sports Resort Nintendo went right back to their SNES/GC mentality (with the acknowledgement of them making LoZ:SS motion heavy).   They abandoned the mass market they so successfully had brought in.

360 has never really done it for me, and really is the console my kids play, although I do enjoy the odd game here or there (Batman Arkham City currently)

Re: PS3 - I totally agree.  I despise the direction games like Drake's Fortune have taken.

My gameplay time currently is mainly divided between Android and Wii.    I'm much more 'mainstream' than folks here and I expect the mainstream consumers will leave console gaming (WiiU is simply not enticing) for tablets and Android based game systems unless MS can pull off motion/virtual reality gaming.  The recent reveal at CES is an impressive start.   The more people play on tablets the less likely they will be willing to ever shell out $60 for a game again.  Personally I find it becoming increasingly hard to justify those types of purchases.

^You likely haven't heard that, because lots of people didn't "almost quit console gaming", but quit console gaming for all?

From mid to late 90's the transition to 3D didn't work quite well, along with the lack of quality requirements (on PS) that Sega and Nintendo had, quality of console games went steep downhill, that resulted in lots of console gamers turning to PC. On PC you could have Command & Conquer, Warcraft, FPS's (that were at the time still rather new) that you even could play online.

I do kinda feel the same way as you. I don't own a Wii U yet but I'm very excited about it and I hope that keeps me going back. Even though I don't own a PS3 my roommate has (and I can use it whenever I want, unless he's using it of course) and I don't see myself playing with it, same goes with the Wii although that's probably for different reasons. I'm mostly playing with my PC right now but I'm haven't really truly enjoy most of the games I bought, I mean the games are good but not really fascinating. In fact, indie games are the ones that have took most of my time in terms of games recently and playing old games on the GC and PS2 mostly.