What are some of the current video game systems and games?
We are at one of those points where the generations of video games are changing over and we've got three new systems that are the main primary console systems. They are the Nintendo Wii, the 360 Xbox - which has actually been out for over a year now - and the Playstation 3. The fact is that the most popular game system out there right now is still the Playstation 2. God of War 2 just came out on the Playstation 2 and I find that I'm constantly going back to these Playstation 2 games. In many ways I'm finding them superior to the next generation games that I'm playing, because with the next generation, the developers and the programmers have to learn a whole new system. They have to learn a whole new technology. Whereas by that point they've totally mastered the previous generation's technology and a good game is a good game. We've come a long way with video game systems, in terms of technology, if you look at what games looked like in the early 80s and what they look like now. The photo realism, the shadows, the lighting, the technology is just massive. However this doesn't necessarily make the game more fun to play. The Shakespeare comment that, "The play is the thing" is very much true in the electronic games. If that game doesn't hold up it doesn't really matter how beautiful it is.
