Gaming at the Library

Over the last few years, some libraries have been turning to gaming activities as a way of bringing in new demographic groups, expanding their programming and as a way of creating a fun environment for their patrons. Gaming is rapidly growing into the next new media as sales of games have outpaced box office sales and are predicted to grow beyond music sales in the near future.

One quote from a fellow librarian at the Nancy Ham Library goes like this: “The days are long passed since the time that libraries were thought of as warehouses of books. Today, our profession is geared toward service, rather than storage; people, rather than products; what we can do, rather than what we have on hand.”

The Last Generation

So which console is going to assume the lead, or will there be a tie? A half decade ago, many analysts projected a close race between the Sony’s PlayStation 2, Microsoft’s original Xbox, and Nintendo’s GameCube, but their prediction turned out to be wrong: Sony simply blew away the competition with its PS2.
So this time around the question is which gaming system do you think is the best?