Gaming In 2010

2010 has been a long year, especially in gaming. The definite highlight of 2010 has been the Xbox Kinect, it was revealed in June at an E3 convention in America. I didn’t honestly think much of it at first; I thought it was just another copy of the Nintendo Wii but without a controller. I wasn’t originally going to buy it but I thought I’ll get it anyway just to see what all the fuss was about. Since the first week I got it I never hardly used it much, it was good for a couple of hours then it jut got kind of boring, I’m glad I didn’t but PlayStation move now, I mean that’s just a shear copy of the Wii right there, cause it come with the controller, we’ve seen it all before. I thought the Kinect would have been a bit more fun, the only good thing I can say about it is that you don’t have the burden of carrying the controller all the time like you do the Wii, but unlike the Wii you’ve got to have a big area in the room your using else you’ll end up banging into stuff... trust me I would know. When I went to pick it up, I was literally standing outside the GAME store waiting for it in the queue; I thought this must be good; I’ve never had to wait outside to get my hands on an item before, it’s early days yet and the better games are yet to come, if you ask me.

The was only one console out this year and that was the Nintendo DSi XL just a bigger version of the DSi really, but being me I have to buy it, and it being Nintendo means I really have to have it. It’s good that it allows you to get a much bigger screen for all your games etc, many people believe that it’s not worth getting, especially if you already have a DS but once you count all the extra features they have worked on it sort of adds up in the end, like a bigger stylus, bigger screens, better Wi-Fi functionalities, better battery life etc. What was interesting last year though was that they also revealed that they were working on a 3DS to be released in spring 2011. From what I’ve seen so far all they doing to this new one is making all the graphics 3D , adding a analogue stick and have a slider to turn the 3D on and off however it’s going back to being a smaller DS so my guess is they going to do what they did to the original DS and make it either lighter or bigger and better, possibly to make more money, sometime I think they just purposely plan out how they could make it better in the future so they can feed off more people buying them, but I’ll still end up buying whatever’s next.

There’s been lot’s of games out in 2010 but one thing I noticed is how they have continued in a lot of the old works of the past, for example they brought Donkey Kong Country back on the Wii, Sonic 4 continuing from Sonic 3 15 years ago! And also Pac-Man championship edition, which is a better updated version of old classic, which apparently the original designer for the very first Pac-Man game came out of retirement to help make it (Interesting Fact). It’s great to see these games back with updated features and graphics etc which was something I was talking about not long ago how they should bring back the old games into the new age of technology we have now. I would hope this year that 2011 sees more of this, but I can see this year being all about Kinect and the 3DS, I wonder what Sony is getting up to in the meantime.