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Done with high-end graphics, done with spending a fortune on hardware to keep up with PC gaming. I burned a fat stack of money years ago just to be able to play Half Life 2 and when I finished the game I felt sorely disappointed. Games that followed required even more horsepower to render graphics and keep up with the physics engines. I got fed up and decided that the pretty/shiny/sparkly world of high-end gaming wasn't worth it, anymore, and it happened that Nintendo had very good timing.
I ditched the PC as a gaming platform in favor of a Wii and a Powerbook. In the [very] distant future I may consider a PS3, but it would have to take a serious price cut and even then I find myself leaning much more towards the 360 for online gaming and range of game titles. For now, I find the Wii to be an immense amount of fun and I'm really looking forward to the new releases this year, both new games and old NES titles on the virtual console.
I find it amusing that we received a PS2 as a gift for Christmas this past year, as did some of my friends. For a system so old, it still gets a surprising amount of play thanks to the titles released for it. The thing still sells really well.
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