December 7th, 1941: darkest day in American history until 9/11. October 29th, 1929 or better yet known as Black Tuesday, the day the country went bankrupt. Now is November 17th, 2006 the darkest day in videogame history since the Virtual boy. What event is it that marred videogames forever you might ask? Two words: Playstation 3. That's right, you heard me, the release of the Playstation 3 has brought out the animal in man. Scalpers, armed robberies, assaults and even attempted murder. All for what? A piece of plastic and computer chips that within a few months time will be available to everyone in the US and eventually the world.

Already you have headlines with stories of innocent people, whose only crime they committed was being an avid gamer, being beaten senseless and robbed of their hard earned money, which may have taken them all year to earn. Heck $600 dollars may have been the most money some of these people have seen in their whole lives. Now you got some petty thugs scalping their illegally acquired system on ebay, which today one has already been sold for a whopping $15,099 dollars. What the heck?! You could by a car or put a down payment on a house for $15,000, but for a PS3 that's being retailed for only $600? That's just plain ridiculous. Either people just have way too much money to burn or they just don't care about being ripped off. That money could have bought you a years worth of food or a 360, a Wii, a PS3 and a crap load of games. I don't see how that was a wise purchase at all. These people need to take a class in money management because any financial advisor will tell you how idiotic it is for you to spend that much money on something that within a years time will cost $100 dollars less with each passing year decreasing in value.

Not only do you have those people who were duped out of their money but also you still have those people who paid the $600 bucks and then some for the actual system and then to have it yanked out of their hands by petty criminals. In all the years I have been gaming, since 1987 until now I have never seen such deplorable acts over something so trivial and meaningless as a piece of hardware that was only designed to entertain. I can see that happening over something like lets say the cure for Cancer, but not for that. So far the PS3 has brought none of that, only pain, empty wallets and psychological damage. So thank you Sony, thank you for releasing a scourge on the earth that can't even get backwards compatibility right or even come up with an original idea for their controllers.