I remember back in May 2005, PS3 was the console to beat. It was doing everything right. Nothing seemed like it could stop it. Not Microsofts Xbox 360 and Nintendos non-exsisting Revolution.

However, just one year later, the tables had turned almost completely. At E3 06, the PS3 started to stumble and fall. First, announcing it would cost $600. That was bad enough, however, the same day, they lost their exclusivity of GTA IV.
To make matters worse, its competitors now seemed to be doing everything right. Xbox 360 was having major success and would continue to all the way til through the end of 06. And after seeing the newly named Wii at E3, many people didnt even pay attention to the PS3.
Still though, matters got worse. One of the big games that was shown of for the PS3 in E3, Assassins Creed turned out to also be heading to 360.
Since May of 2006, Playstation 3 has lost many many exclusives. Here are a few to name: GTA IV, Assassins Creed, Fatal Inertia, Bladestorm, Mercenaries 2, the Guitar Hero series, and a couple others.
Today, March 19, 2007, I finally felt defeat behind handed to me by the hands of not the Xbox 360 as i would have expected, but by Sony themselves. Today, it was announced that one of my favorite Playstation series, Devil May Cry, would be releasing its next gen game, Devil May Cry 4 on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 simultaniously.
While lossing other exclusives may have been big, for example GTA, nothing is as big as this. The reasons,Assassins Creed, Fatal Inertia, and Bladestorm were all new series so it wasnt too big of a deal. Mercenaries 2 was just a sequal to a game no one really cared about last gen. Guitar Hero hurt but it was easy to get over it since it as coming to just about everything now (they'll probably announce it for the engage next week). Even GTA wasn't as big because GTA had always been a timed exclusive before. Devil May Cry however, had always been an exclusive.

While my initial reaction to this was a mixture of anger, sadness, depression, denial, and devastation, my current state is different.

It is true, it is a very dark day, having lost one of our greatest to the likes of Micro$oft, but we are not beaten. Beaten is just what they would want from us. However, we are a Playstation family. We had never given up hope before and there is no reason to now. We still have greats like God of War 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII and Versus XIII. Also, Grand Turismo, Killzone 2, Ratchet and Clank, Eight Days, the naughty dog game, Motorstorm, Lair, Heavenly Sword and Resistance. Together, our family is more than enough to defeat Micro$oft and Halo 3, Gears of War 1 & 2, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Alan Wake, Fordza Motor Sport, and Blue Dragon.

I have faith. We have never been down before, and its time for the Playstation to really learn what a challenge is. There may be a day when we will fall, but not today. This day, we stand....this day, we fight.