With thanks to Abraham Lincoln, on the anniversary of one of history’s most famous speeches…
The Gamers-burg Address
At many stores about seven years ago, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft brought forth on this continent, some new consoles, conceived in laboratories, and dedicated to the proposition that all systems are not created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great console war, testing whether the sequels to those consoles, or any console so conceived and so playtested, can dominate the marketplace. We are met on a great launch month of that war. We have come to purchase a new console during that launch month, to declare our loyalty as Xbots or Sony fanboys, that this console war might continue. It is altogether inappropriate and annoying, but somehow we continue to do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot argue — we cannot blog — we cannot troll – with these purchases. The brilliant developers, first and third party, who created these systems and these games, have honored gaming, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will greatly note, and long debate these sales figures and review scores, but it can never forget what they created. It is for us the gamers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished process which they who developed these systems thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these advanced hardware systems we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave were booted up and gamed upon — that we here highly resolve that these consoles were not created, tested, and purchased in vain — that these consoles, under gaming, shall have a new birth of creative freedom — and that artificial intelligence, graphics, streaming and online multiplayer shall be the best upon the earth.
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