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At times, I drool over some new “indie” games available to download (at a reasonable price) on Xbox 360, for example Fez and Bit.Trip Runner 2. But then I don’t have an Xbox.

So here’s the problem. Xbox starts at $200, and with a decent hard drive at $250 (but that’s a special price, since normally that would be $300). Add also $60 a year for Xbox Live Gold, or whatever that means. It gets worse. I would have to essentially “maintain” this new mini-computer. I’m already annoyed by the regular software updates to my Samsung Blu-Ray player, so imagine how annoyed I would be with Xbox’s ones.

I’m starting to understand why games on the iPhone are getting so popular. Maintenance of an iPhone is easy, and I already own one. I don’t have this $300+ barrier to entry to even start playing games, and what I already have is functional for other things than games. Yes, I know, you can use the Xbox as a media center of sorts, but I already have my Mac Mini for that.

So, I guess I’ll be skipping a lot of good games because I don’t want to bother with video game consoles anymore. Instead, I’ll reduce my queues of movies to see and books to read, and I think that’s for the best.