I'm going to blame the lack of new consoles for this, well also the exceedingly slow crawl release of 3DS games too.

As someone getting more apathetic to gaming having no new consoles to stoke the fires and increased homogeneity (the same or similar nature) in gaming: I was getting bored. Wii was my playground this gen, where weird experiments, quirky games and new genres could stretch their legs. That basically died out in the past year and a half because of the gear up to U.

So looking at what I've played, being mid-Nov now; I played RE Revelations in January. Then basically nothing till Summer when I picked up Beat the Beat Rhythm Paradise. After that I played some Batman Arkham Asylum.

That's pretty much iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

I got Skyrim for Christmas 2011, have not touched it since. I have a few games left to complete but right near the end and I have had my fill. I suppose I did play Fire Emblem Sacred Stones on the 3DS VC and some Radiant Dawn on the Wii but my memory is foggy, that could have been 2011!

I've also had other health problems which have put up a barrier to gaming, I need to get back to gaming in the living room in a proper chair or lying flat instead of killing my back.  

So I'm in a state of gaming flux at the moment, holding fire on buying 360 games many of you are picking up - because I need to have a shedload of cash ready for a Wii U and some games. I would have got Dishonoured and Halo 4 for sure, other stuff too I guess.  

I need 635.83 USD to be exact for a Wii U and a paltry 2 games. They are boosting the price of U games by 15.90 USD per game. It's extortionate. They did this when 360 launched but eventually the prices came back down to acceptable. We're being fleeced over here, even the same game on PS3 or 360 is $16 cheaper.

I'm a little down on 3DS, it's a great system but the software is drying up, who is making games for this thing? Nintendo only it seems and they are trickling out faaaaar too slowly. Level 5 and Capcom are doing a couple, which are taking far too long to come out too. All these blogs about phones killing off portable gaming, I'm starting to think its true in the respect that developers have gone elsewhere hence games are drying up.

This year may have been my worst year for gaming, ever.

But, at least in just over 2 weeks I will have a new console. It's only been 6 years....

Please don't do this again industry.

Oh and if all the new consoles end up with tablets it will be a pretty damning indictment on the industry. Let's hope for new stuff. Come on Sony - in built HMD!