Yes, yes. I know. You’re sick of Apple iPad articles flooding the web the last two days. Well, I am too. I hopped on my favorite gaming websites and blogs and found information that, surprisingly, could have been summed up with one post — nay, one LINE — instead of 67: It has a bigger screen. But no, I had to read a hands-on with the interface. Then, a hands-on with the non-gaming apps. Then the gaming apps (which were not even iPad games). Then an article about the design, one about the specs, one about how it is a let-down, and one about how it’s divided the gaming world.
I realize that it draws immense traffic to websites, which in this economy of ad-driven economics is crucial, but it adds nothing to the conversation about games.
As a gadget geek I love to talk about a product and look at its specifications. I love to debate on why my MacBook is better than any PC laptop I’ve owned, or which distro of Linux is optimal, or even which e-reader has the best UI. But there are already several places I can do that: GDGT, Engadget, and Gizmodo had that covered in excruciating detail. This simply isn’t gaming news. Perhaps if there was some piece of gaming software that had been REALLY effing cool I would sit and read the RSS feed while on the crapper at work. But nope.
Now, I realize Apple invited several gaming outlets to the event. Pissing off Apple by saying “no thanks, we already have a tech blog team that can handle that” may seem like a bad idea but it certainly saves a little time to write about far more interesting things, like Mario cupcakes or Master Chief wallpapers. Really, though, 6 articles about how it may or may not change gaming forever is 7 too much.
The amount of unneeded coverage has been deafening, and I don’t know about you but I need a break from it.
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