With its big, bright screen, ability to sense touch and motion, and controls that mimic a home video game’s, Sony’s Playstation Vita delivers the sort of gaming that approaches what you might expect to experience in your den. But is that what gamers still want?
As game consoles become more like cable television boxes, maybe it’s time for video games to start becoming more like cable television shows.
This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read.
With the Christmas holidays rounding the bend and the big shopping season about to kick off, now’s a great time to start thinking about what to buy that gamer in your life, be they casual, hardcore or even a once-a-year player.
