This is supposed to be a comedy blog, but a gonk like me finds this kind of thing very funny.

Back when PS1 was brought to market Ken Kutagari chief designer made the comment that “playstation games are the software equivalent of Macdonalds hamburgers, cheap, tasty and easy to get hold of”, that comment has stuck with me all these years and is re-affirmed every time I walk into a game shop and am confronted with that big blue wall of shit (the playstation ailse).

I know a lot of people love Sony and love their PS1’s PS2’s and are getting wet with excitement at the prospect of PS3. Get ready to have your hearts broken.

Sony has just had the worst E3 ever.

They have lost exclusive rights to GTA, and Microsoft has exclusive episode downloads from day one, Sony isn’t getting any.

Sony has announced that their online services will be handled by the publishers, if anyone here has played on an EA server knows how bad this will turn out.

Universal studios, who are linked to Blu-ray (the new HD dvd format) have stated that they don’t think it is going to take off, mainly due to very high production costs of both hardware and software. The rival format HD-DVD is already proven as half the cost on both fronts.

And the greatest bombshell dropped this week (c&p’d from Wired magazines Chris Kohlers gamelife blog)

“Sony just tried to pull the wool over our eyes, and I'm not happy.

I -- as well as the rest of planet Earth -- thought that the PS3 was really $499, and that the $599 pack was just if you wanted extra hard drive space. As it turns out: no. The PS3 is $599, and the $499 pack is for if you want a crippled box.

If you go in for the $499 PS3, you don't get the much-vaunted Memory Stick/SD Card/CompactFlash inputs. Hell, you don't even get IEEE 802.11 wireless.

And worst of all: you don't get HDMI output. Know what that means? You can't watch Blu-Ray movies. Sure, you can watch them in standard definition. But not HD. Isn't that, like, the whole point?

This just made Microsoft's $299 Core Pack look like a genius idea. At least it's possible to upgrade an Xbox Core. I don't know what kind of arcane magick will have to be executed to give a crippled PS3 actual functionality.”

Add a couple of dead joypads (no vibration with dualshock3’s) and we have our 3rd place in this generation’s hardware battle.

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