Journal # 2

Upcoming E3 conference

Next weeks conference in Los Angeles is where the three giants in video gaming ( Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft) will announce the development and upcoming releases of their new products. This has message boards and blogging sites going crazy with individuals trying to guess and discuss what the possibilities of what may be coming out of this conference. At last years conference they announced the release of "Wii Fit," "Mario Kart," "Grand Theft Auto IV," "Call of Duty 4," the Slim Sony PSP and "Rock Band." This past year all of those games sold millions of copies and were very successful. At this years conference many experts believe the announcement of the a new "Halo" game will be announced, a possible 50$ cost cut in the Xbox 360, a motion sensor for the PS3 much like the Nintendo Wi has. All the buzz that this conference is producing shows us just how much America loves their video games. As I was younger video games were my life, but as I have gotten older I rarely find myself playing them, even though I have an Xbox 360 and most of the newest and popular games. I though must not be part of the norm as there is still a huge crave for video games. If I had to guess I would say 1 out of every 2 American households has a video game system or plays video games on their PC. My father and grandfathers even play video games, showing us its not just the younger age people playing video games. Video games have embedded themselves in todays society from young to old. As technology gets even better, creating even better game play, graphics, etc. it will only increase our love for video games and press it into society even deeper.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/07/11/e3.2008/index.html