If This Works

I bought a Wii and hated it. That was about four years ago. All the casual games and motion control gimmicks depressed me so much I actually cried about it—like, real tears—and then I quit gaming entirely. Steam’s the only reason I came back to it at all.

But I kept thinking about the big stuff. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Persona—games that demand a hundred hours and destroy your sleep schedule. I loved those back when they existed on real hardware, but they don’t work on a phone screen. They never will. I’m not playing Chrono Trigger on an iPhone just so I can say I’m playing Chrono Trigger.

So I started wanting a PS3, but by the time I got serious about it, the machine was already half-dead. The rumors about a new console were everywhere. And you don’t buy a dying platform. So I waited, and now Sony’s announcing the PS4 on February 20th, 2013, and I’ll be watching.

If the hardware is actually interesting, if there are games that hit the way those old RPGs did, then maybe I’ll bite. Maybe I’ll get a real console back in my life. Maybe I’ll buy the 4K TV Sony’s hawking too. Maybe this whole thing starts again.

Or maybe I’ll just buy a yacht after. And a castle made of gold. And liquid eternal life. Seems about right.