The PS4 Launch from the Perspective of a College Student

 In exactly a week, the PS4 will be out, which is a big deal for pretty much everyone. The Gamestop at my work stopped taking pre-orders in July, only 2 months after they had opened. If you don't have it pre-ordered, be prepared to do some terribly degrading things, the bulk of which while wearing very little clothes, in order to snag yourself a system. I got my reserve in the day after it was announced, and while most people are excited over the specs, games, "low" price, I've got my own reasoning for shelling out 400 bucks on the time-wasting super tech.

I play a good amount of video games. I have classmates who get in the 3-6 hours that our fourteen-year-old selves would have called a "light day". Compared to them, I'm a lightweight. Most of the time, I rarely play an hour before my brain feels like mush. To me, video games are a way to relax from the mental strain of writing, recording music, or doing homework. I'm not saying that that's how it should be for everybody who has reached the 20 mark, but it certainly seems to be how things have played out.

I still think I play more video games than I should, which made me question why I reserved this fantastic piece of technology in the first place. I have so many games already, it just didn't seem practical. Really, I'm excited for the online. I've got so many friends I've accumulated over the years switching over. Real friends too. 

It's really only online gamers that can grasp the concept of being friends with someone you've never met. With tools like Skype, Facebook, Google even, the argument that you don't really know them has gone out the window. In fact, people who make those arguments can go out of that same window (Just kidding, you're all fabulous). For me, gaming friends were the only people I could relate to as a kid (Though that was because my only interest was games... which is a bad thing. Nobody likes a one dimensional character). I'm starting to sound like one of the kids in Stand by Me, so I'll cut this off here. See you all the 15th!