Nintendo puts a nail in the coffin of 3D

3D, or not 3D? That is the question... Well I guess not. Nintendo has announced the next iteration of the 3DS and it is... well, without the 3D feature. They say so that they can market better to the under 7 kids crowd, but I suspect they are quietly backing away from 3D, though I don't understand why as Nintendo 3DS has been a smash success despite all the 3D Hatrz.

Ready or not here it comes part 2: X-Box One

We all know by now that the Wii-U left me feeling underwhelmed. Oddly, if you had asked me five years ago I might have been excited for the next Xbox, however, times have changed. Today Xbox 360 gets almost as much dust as my Wii-U. As time has gone on I have gradually shifted away from the 360 toward the PS3. This has been in part because the PS3 graphics are usually better on an HDTV despite the fact that most games only display in 720P and the 360 can upscale to 1080P. Colors are brighter on the PS3, and images sharper in general. The PS3 is also much more 3D friendly than the Xbox 360 but the biggest issue has been the red ring of death. I have had to replace my 360 three times. I have never had to buy a new PS3.

Ready or Not Here it Comes pt 1 of 3

   The next generation of consoles is here and I must say I’ve gone from feeling underwhelmed to being eager to get my hands on the new PS4, but the new Xbox One and Nintendo Wii-U are in for a rough ride for sure. The question of whether or not it makes sense to launch a new system in the midst of one of the worst economic downturns since the great depression is about to be answered, though so far Nintendo Wii-U has been a strong indicator that now may not be the best time. For the next few weeks I’ll be taking on each system and what I as a fan of all three want to see.

It’s a blue, blue ocean

Do me a favor, if you like this please pass it along. There’s a great deal of infighting in the GOP and we must do all we can to lay it to rest and get everyone fighting the real opponents, which is not each other, but a Democratic party bound and determined to change us rather than Washington DC. The solution to the GOP’s problem is pretty simple from my perspective, I just wonder if the leadership of our party is just too old and jaded to see it. We need people to start looking outside the box and our reluctance to look for answers outside the same group of people who lost us the McCain race and now the Romney race with their focus on moderating the party which clearly isn’t working, we’ve done it twice now and it’s not working. The one race where we let the base do it it’s way was the 2010 race, and yes Sharon Angel and Christine O’Donnell lost but the reality is that in 2010 the GOP promised the world something different from the Bush/McCain years and guess what, all in all we won, so when outside the box thinking prevailed we did pretty well.