All fairness, PS3 is a pretty darn good console. HDMI, 1080p games, Lair, MGS, Final Fantasy 13 and so on. However, PS3 is being held back by the bumbling idiots at Sony. Seriously, had I not witnessed the PS2's success in my lifetime I would have never believed a Sony marketted product had dominated the console market. Kaz Hurai at E306 did a fantastic job of telling you how abhorrantly expensive the PS3 is, and he gave an unthinkably convincing list of reasons why you SHOULD NOT buy the PS3. Ken Katarugi has now done the same. Instead of reinforcing the strengths of the PS3 and talking about its solid (of not sparse) game lineup, Ken gave a nice talk about his childhood and all the things PS3 does that noboy really cares about. Its fantastic that the cell cure's cancer, but thats not the major selling point of the console for anyone.

Sony needs to realize, people are buying the PS3 not because of Blu Ray, not because it's Kens or Kaz's greatest dream come true, not because it has Giant Enemy Crabs with weakpoints for massive damage and not because it plays African nature simulators. People are buying the PS3 because inspite of all else, it's a gaming console, and its a playstation with playstation franchises that people have come to know and love. Gran Turismo, Socom, Final Fantasy....alll ledgendary names in the gaming world, all completely ignored by Ken and his intolerable ignorance.

If PS3 fails this generation, you can bet your life that its Sony's fault because they cant market it. If your average consumer had watched the keynotes from E3 and TGS, they would probably not realize just how much the PS3 really does have to offer. Sony has done a fantastic job of burying themselves with irrelevance, lies, delays and flat out ignorance. Its hard to market, harder than 99% of people will ever realize, but screwing it up only screws the people who have a stake, who are in a word, Sony.

HE'S COMMING BACK!

Master Chief Returns to Take Down The Covenant at X06

9/28/2006

FINISH THE FIGHT

Sony flops hard at TGS today. Instead of shining like they should have, they crashed and burned. A Ken Katarugi childhood memory, an incredibly boring Afrika trailer and an explanation of how Sony is going to charge its users for both demo downloads and pieces of a new GT game (which cost 637 dollars for every piece combined.....MILKAGE). Instead of hyping up new games, and explaining why should buy a PS3, they spent alot of time explaining why PS3 is good, but not a good investment. This is E3 all over again, withtout the drama. GS already has called it "the most uneventful TGS keynote ever", and Sony is burying themselves under their own failures to propogate the playstation 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93IcIzqg4gc that sums it up well

despite its weak performance overseas, Xbox 360 showed alot of life at the pre TGS breifing today. The first real gameplay footage of Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon was fantastic, and the upgrade fo Xbox 360 to 1080p is a great move. Check out the videos for LO and BD here: http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/6161

Ive compiled a list of all the music I listen to. I am aware that for the most part it has no definite theme and follows no kind of genre. Also, I am aware that some people think some of these songs are flaming gay but I am living proof that its not true. these are songs and artists, not albums.

Float On - Modest Mouse

Holiday - Greenday

Inside of You, Don't Tell Me, Same Direction - Hoobastank

Helicopter, Helicopter Remix, Banquet, Price of Gasoline - Bloc Party

Holding Out For a Hero - FrouFrou

TNT, Back in Black - ACDC

Remember the Name - Fort Minor

Retaliation, Vicious Circle - Dane Cook

Man in the Mirror, Beat It, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson

Kissed By a Rose - Seal

Such Great Heights - The Postal Service

Clocks, Speed of Sound, Yellow - Coldplay

Come Out and Play, Million Miles Away, My Friends Got a Gril Friend, Pretty Fly For A White Guy - Offspring

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers

Dani California, Californication, By the Way, Snow (Hey Oh), Wet Sand, Other Side, Scar Tissue, 21st Century - Red Hot Chilipeppers

No More Mr Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

Bleed American, Nothing Wrong, It Just Takes Some Time - Jimmy Eat World

No One Knows, Little Sister - Queens of the Stoneage

Time to Dance - Panic at the Disco

This Love, She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

Elenor Rigby, Hello Goodbye - The Beatles

Jigga What/Faint, Encore/Numb - Linkin Park/Jay Z

You're Beautiful - James Blunt

Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park

Streamline - Newton

Mr Brightside, Change Your Mind, When You Were Young, Somebody Told Me - The Killers

In Reverse - Passenger

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

Miss Murder - AFI

World Wide Suicide - Pearl Jam

Someday - Flipside

Toxicity, Aerials - System of a Down

Spin, My Blue Heaven - Taking Back Sunday

Jerk It Out - The Cesars

Sould Meets Body, License and Registration - Death Cab For Cutie

Vertigo - U2

Dare, 911 - Gorillaz

XBLM gets X06 and TGS content this week, good stuff

Sheep are the new cows

no, im not kidding. Cows are infamous for being complete suckers for whatever Sony throws their way true or not (PS3 launch, Killzone 2 CG). Sheep are now in that position, completely convinced that the Wii not only has universal appeal because its unconventional, but also that it is going to save the videogame industry from the edge of Oblivion from which it is currently dangling.

read this post http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24986377&page=0 and look at the responses

NIntendo says "we plan to appeal to those who dont already play viedogames" and all of a sudden its gospel truth. People keep explaining how awesome brain age is and how they are convinced millions of people went out and bought a DS so they could play it because they couldnt live without it.........can you see the insanity?

Just because nintendo said they are appealing to non gamers doesnt mean they are. Consider that Xbox 360 was said to be targetted at people who want a complete entertainment and mutltimedia package, and PS3 is targetted at gamers who want a state of the art supercomputer. Anyone with brain cells will tell you that those are both completely BS'd statements. They are vague enough to be impossible to deny, but strong enough to leave an impression. Its the marketting that food brands use when they say things like "best coffee on earth". No one can disprove it or prove it, but its still making you think about just how good that coffee is wether or not you tried it already.

Now, people who dont play videogames now dont because for whatever reason, they have either no intrest or simply dont like them. Regarless of what the games offer at this point, the linkliness that that perspective will change is relativeley small. Nintendo is hoping to cultivate both nintendo fantatics, younger children and newcomers. However, (this is key) unlike those people who have videogame intrest already, the appeal factors of non gamers are infinately diverse. Because the minds of users are so alike in appeal, wii can target all of them, but it is impossible to target and broadly appeal to everyone in existance. There are over 7 billion people alive today, and less than 200 million are current videogame consumers, which means that the appeal for any console is less than 200 million.

Nintendo wii is a new outlook and a new idea, but its still a videogame, and thats a fact people are ignoring.

click this (lots of offensive language) http://macewindu.ytmnsfw.com/

I shut down a fanboy today, it was epic indeed. See for yourselves

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24985321&page=5

my response was epic

well I predicted the day and the price perfectly, although I didnt get the other specifics. Wii will not have metriod this year, but it will have Zelda and sell for 249.99 on November 19th.

I am not buying a wii at this point, I does not have the insentive right now