I popped over to the store during lunch yesterday to pick up Age of Empires III and it’s left me feeling a little strange. After all, the Xbox 360 comes out in under 20 days now. That’s a non-trivial upgrade, so I should be conserving energies – and money – for it. I’m slated to pop to Fry’s this weekend with Steve: that will result in the purchase of Star Wars Battlefront II and a fist full of DVDs. There is a question about Battlefront II: get the Xbox or PSP version? Or both? I don’t know yet, but my feet itch buying a game for an “older” console days before it’s upgraded, yet I use my Xbox more than I do my PSP right now… either way, why would I bother to pick up a new PC game?

Because it was shiny.
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