The past few years, I’ve taken one of my gaming consoles with me when traveling to see family for Christmas. Whether it was the Xbox 360 to show off the beginning of the “next-gen”, the PS3 to show the power of Blu-Ray, or the Wii for the sake of family togetherness, there was always a reason to get behind my TV stand and unhook a ton of cables. This year, though, I’m not going through the trouble. Why, you might ask? Well, there’s just nothing new that my non-gamer family will care about.
Don’t get me wrong, there were some amazing games this year, but there was no new tech or anything revolutionary that my family would need to see. In the past, they were amazed at how far things had come with each new advancement. This year, the gaming world was lacking in the tech department, for better or worse. Next year, though, will be completely different. With both Sony’s motion controller and Microsoft’s Project Natal scheduled to hit, I have a feeling I might be packing up more than one console for my yearly trek.
What about all of you? Have you taken a console to a family gathering for the Holidays in the past? What about this year? Sound off in the comments section.
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Yeah, I'll probably bring a console with me this year. We are traveling a grand total of about 40 miles round trip, so it's not a huge deal.
I traveled 3500+ miles this year so no I didn't bring my consoles. I did haul my iPod Touch and my DS Lite with me. Scribblenauts will be great to show to the family and there are plenty of iPod Touch games to get non-gamers interested. I also brought my laptop to play some older games one like Knights of the Old Republic, Portal, etc. This holiday season it will be less gaming, more drinking, over-eating, and sleeping late for me.
All I could think of when I read that is "I traveled 500 miles to give you my seed. LUMBERJACK!!! AHHHHHH!!!!"
Traveling from Galveston to Mcallen to Dallas in the span of 12 days starting tomorrow and I'll be packing my Wii, and 360.
Leaving the PS3 at home because of lack of multiplayer games I have on the system.
The reason for that is that during the holidays, my 5 brothers and 1000 cousins and nephews get together and play our multiplayer games (Madden, Street ect) to and catch up. We own most of our MG on the 360 because we prefer xbox live to the PSN.
I'm packing the wii because the kiddies love playing it the most.
Keeps them busy while the "grownups" talk trash and game for hours.
will take my psp to play @ the plane & the airport.
I'm lucky enough to go to a house with two xboxes, a ps3, and a Wii.
Doesn't look like I need to bring anything.