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A Gamer’s Manifesto

David Wong of Pointlesswasteoftime.com looks at the impend­ing arrival of the next line of games con­soles — the PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution — and asks, “what do gamers want from this sev­enth gen­er­a­tion of con­soles,” as he presents “A Gamers’ Manifesto”.
Twenty very amus­ing points that really need to be addressed.

“The Sony Playstation 3 is going to cost $465.00.

In the des­ol­ate eco­nomic cli­mate of post-apocalyptic 2006, I’m think­ing that’s going to be a lot of money. Now, it’s true that at E3 Sony was boast­ing the Playstation 3 could crank out 1.8 TFLOPS, or 1.8 tril­lion FLOPS. If that many FLOPS were piled together they would fill the Grand Canyon, assum­ing each FLOP were the size of a muskrat. So what do gamers want from all that money and FLOP? Just ask them.”