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ninjarabbit, on Thu Feb 9, 2012 5:55 PM, said:

Sounds nice!! I think these days gamers don't need 800 games available to them on any single console. I for one would have 200 games available for any given generation, all high quality, all solid in the gameplay department. The entertainment options available to people today compared to 25 years ago, heck even 10 years ago is pretty significant. Think back when you were 15 years old. One single VHS tape costs as much as $99.99. Now you can watch that same movie, and thousands others at a press of a button for free, or you can pay a small fee and watch thousands more on Netflix or Amazon etc... The same can be said of video games. If I am going to drive out, and purchase a pricey video game in a brick and mortar store, I don't need a glut of sub-par games.

If game companies want to invest more time, more effort and more money to release a high quality product that guarantees a return, even banding together to do it. Great for me as a gamer! For all the other other people who think franchised games are all the same and suck. There are literally millions of games available to that person on consoles, PC's, smart phones and handhelds. You can find PC games, online games, indie games, classic Games, etc... often for free or a small fee.
The video game industry is HUGE. A person just has to focus on the games that make them happy, and not focus on the other games that don't make them happy. But in the end, the fact they don't like every game available does not mean in the least that there is about to be a crash. What it sounds like is they simply have trouble focusing on things that make them happy, and imagining something is going on that isn't because of it. Again, The end is NOT near.

And no ComputerSpaceFan, Sony's sales figures do not mean the video game industry is crashing in my opinion. If a person hasn't heard the woes of Sony these past few years they haven't really done much research into the subject. Sony is certainly a player in the industry, but thankfully they aren't the only player.

Videogames have surpassed even films as one of the most popular forms of entertainment today.
It is a $65 billion dollar a year industry, and is more popular today than it ever has been.

I compare people who forsee a video game crash to people who stand on the corner of metropolitan cities with signs that say "The End Is Near"
They have been doing it for decades, but fact is, the end is not near.

Mendon, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 9:21 AM, said:

If I get it, it won't be for the full price.
Truthfully, even though I thought it was kick-ass, I couldn't justify paying $400 for the GOW3 Xbox, but when breakpack sent me a text saying that NewEgg had them new for $275 and free shipping, then it made the purchase much easier! LOL

bomberpunk, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:34 PM, said:

LOL Good catch. I meant to also respond to your statement in regards to Prism Break.
While he is an awesome looking figure, if fact one of the first I bought mainly because I loved the quartz crystal looking arms, I don't really like him much as a character in the game. I think maybe he's just too complicated. One of his abilities is to drop a crystal, you can drop them on enemies, not easy to coordinate, or you can drop them in the ground and then fire you laser beams which causes them to split in two in a "V" shape, again, not too useful as coordinating an attack this way rarely seems to work. To be honest, I probably didn't level him up very far, and it has been awhile since I played with him. But my initial reaction was that I wasn't crazy about him, other than he's a great looking figure!

JamesD, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 10:15 AM, said:

I walked into a Wal Mart last week and the display was full. Checked 3 other places (2 Targets and another Wal Mart) and they were completely bare. Might just have caught them after a restock. We talked to one Wal Mart employee who told us someone came in and bought out the entire stock before the end of the day on a day they had been stocked up. Something like $300 worth of Skylanders. It's probably one of those guys turning around and selling them for $70.

I don't sweat it too much though. Here at "moycon's toys" we're always fully stocked!!