It's really only a bad time for buying game. It's a great time if you just want to play games, with more homebrew, translations, user friendly flashcarts, mod/repair knowledge and skills, scans of magazines/manuals/etc., great game info. and review sites (brothers duomazov, pce bible, video game den, etc.), and gameplay videos than ever before. I'd like to see more discussion threads, I guess, but much of it has been covered repeatedly already or has been relegated to chat.