BioShock, one of the best games released in a long time and the first to feature intelligent artificial intelligence, is available now and its demo runs well on my computer.

Yet I don't purchase it.

I am waiting, praying for a PlayStation 3 version of BioShock to be announced.

There have been some hints that BioShock might be coming to the PlayStation 3, but there has also been indication that the game will never come to the PS3.

BioShock is to PlayStation 3 owners as Metal Gear Solid 4 is to Xbox 360 owners.

So why don't I buy a copy of the Windows version of BioShock so I can play the game now rather than wait months for an unannounced PlayStation 3 version that may or may not happen?

I don't like playing games on a computer. Sitting hunched at a desk is not relaxing. I will put up with it for adventure games and solitaire, but rarely anything else.

I could be playing my PlayStation 3 games in high definition now by connecting the console to my computer monitor's component video inputs--the DVI and VGA ports are in use--but I prefer the comfort of lying on my bed and using my standard definition television set to the superior image quality of games on my computer monitor.

In short, comfortable chair, couch or bed > computer chair.

BioShock is so good that it could be one of the rare non-adventure, non-solitaire games I am willing to play while hunched at a computer desk, but I want to be sure that I have to play it while hunched at a computer desk before I buy a copy of the Windows version and force myself to play it while hunched at a computer desk.

This is why I hate lawyers. If BioShock is coming to the PlayStation 3, presumably Microsoft's "exclusive" contract prevents publisher Take-Two from saying anything about a PS3 version for the time being. And if there is no PlayStation 3 version, Take-Two's legal department will never allow the company to outright say that the game is never coming because that could lead to a lawsuit if the company later changes its mind.