Standing On Boxes

Back in early August I bought a PSP game Valkyrie Profile Lenneth – a port of an older Playstation game from Square Enix (the folks who do all the “Final Fantasy” games. It’s one of their standard RPG style games.
Thought I would check it out… even though I’m not a big fan of the whole RPG combat thing. Not bad (a bit primitive but playable) but I haven’t finished it yet.
The one I really wanted to check out is their PS2 ‘sequel’ “Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria” — it just came out. But, I think I’ll wait until the price drops a little (It’s a $49 game right now when most current PS2 games are $39 or less). Maybe for Christmas?
Of course, after buy an Xbox and a couple games for that…. I really shouldn’t buy any other games until I’ve played those…

I’ve decided to wait until at least next summer to buy a PS3. The cost of the gadget + a couple games? Too much for me at this point – especially with upcoming serious dental work starting next week…
But I wanted a next-gen video game console – for assorted reasons…
So…
I now have an X-box 360 (I used up all of my Best Buy Rewards ‘things’ and a coupon which brought the cost down to a more reasonable amount – and 2 games (I saved approximately $60):
“Perfect Dark Zero” (My first FPS (First person Shooter) – ever. It was cheap.
“Test Drive Ultimate” (A racing game – the real point of this exercise)
And I’ll check the used book store for some used games…
(I thought real hard about buying one — they are running a 5-10% failure rate even after over 8 months. Not sure I want to get the extended service plan (in case it dies after the 90 warranty — you have to wonder why such an expensive piece of equipment has only a 90 day warranty.))
The XBox-Live thing looks interesting – not sure yet if it is something I want to pay extra for.
Unlike SONY – Microsoft is releasing game development software to the public… I’ve installed it but haven’t done much with it yet…
Physically — it isn’t as ‘tech sexy’ as my little 2nd generation PS2 or any of my Apple toys. In some respects it is a heavy/ugly critter.