Wow, reading all that you lot have put here reminds me how out of touch I am.
I have had a Play station, a grey box type. Then got a new smaller updated version, got a game for it and got to the end but missed something along the way in the 1st part and couldn't find what I had to do. The game was a WW11 war game, any way, I gave up, we had kids soon after and not turned 1 on since.
On a ship I worked on once, to watch a movie was via 1 of these game things, had to get someone to show me how to work it, I gave up on that to. Read a book instead.
We have a wii thing, never gets turned on, kids are not interested.
Yes things have changed over the years even I have trouble keeping up and most of my friends see me as the go to person for advice all this cloud stuff makes things interesting but makes up backing up all your data (photos) so easy as well technology can be good used right.
Just like anything in moderation, some parents use these things like consoles as Baby sitters and this I feel is wrong, but they can be a lot of fun though with the family on the rainy days.
Give my son the choice of Game or hanging with dad in the shed building kwap and I think you would be surprised at what he picks every time I think its more a case of people not making time to spend with their kids is the problem so many grow up these days with no skills.
last night we sat back and watched a number of MySwag youtube clips on the TV some very interesting some gave us laughs some were OMG but without technology we would have never seen these and all the gory fun of 4WD around our country and with our fibre connection it was fantastic no buffering no problems.
