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Buyer Beware

So I stepped up to the foam HVG2 "Professional" Dance Pad.  Since I hadn't played in a while, it took me a couple weeks to realize that the right arrow just plain sucked - it wouldn't catch signals half the time, and send spurious signals the other half.  I'd take it back, but I already threw out the box and lost the receipt.

If Phil Steinmeyer Says It

...then it must be true.

From his game business faq:  "Note that PC sales have been in a fast-fade from 1999 to 2004 (declined from $1.9 billion to $1.1 billion)."  (He's talking about PC game sales, btw, not sales of personal computers.)

Unless someone shows me more trustworthy data I'm going to believe him.

Don't get me wrong.  Piracy is only part of the damage.  Console war is a huge part, too.   And there are other factors.  But I'm going to keep right on believing that an increase in the ease of piracy (more bandwidth, BitTorrent servers, etc) is part of what's slamming the industry.

In other news, I'm jonesing for videogames something fierce.  Those other activities:  reading, writing, arithmetic...they aren't holding my interest.  Only been 3 weeks.  Feels like more.