This article is currently from a %60 Sony fanboy, %30 Nintendo fanboy, and a %10 Microsoft fanboy.

Ok, so we all know Sony has multi-billion dollar budgets with the biggest consumer install base of any of the systems and because of that they earn some wiggle room with their decisions. But where is the line drawn? I think it's getting close.

Sony blew away the competition when first introducing the PS3 with crazy presentations and computer generated movies alongside a LOT of big promises. Sadly, we all have become aware that many of those have already been broken. Probably the most important being the availability of their "next generation ground breaking" product. Does it really matter how much confetti can shoot out of the top with enough audio channels to hear each individual one hit the ground if you can't actually get it to the people?

Secondly, the controller, i'm not going to address this issue much because for one, i don't really know much about it, and two the only real attention it's gotten is how Nintendo was the inventor of motion sensing and sony directly stole the idea from them. I haven't seen this function implemented too much or even really talked about from the developers standpoint. I think the addition is good, but whether or not it was worth the trade with rumble is yet to be seen.

Blu-Ray...

Here is the big wammy! This is a huge part of what is making the PS3 so expensive, so critical for sony, and simultaneously being the reason it has been delayed as well as production numbers being cut in half. The blu is pretty much snatching your wallet and spanking it until you cry. Sony decided that the Playstation 3 would be the perfect Trojen horse to get it's new format to the masses, and it really is a wonderful deal if you are interested in one--the key there being "if you are interested in one." When it gets down to it though, whether it is sucessful with the home theater markets, games will always be on them, and they DO offer more space for content (and i would have to agree that while not very practical NOW, in 5 years i believe that the current DVD space with hi-def images is going to become problematic, resulting in more compressed textures and audio).

And now we are to the heart of the Playstation...the games. TGS was the first display with a fair amount of games for the public to test. While not being there myself, the general concensus has been this: Potential. Just about all the games displayed had incredible graphics, especially since all the games are still in developmental stages. The animations were extremely fluid, and the frames per second where mostly all positive. The thing lacking the most? Depth. Everyone was impressed by the small amount of gameplay offered, but it was small. They all wanted to see more. Sony has so much on the line with this product, (one being it's multi-billion dollar "cell," as well as blu-ray) and I wish them luck on their endeavor, but as a fan I am warning them not to cheat me, lie to me, or let me down. I'm teetering on the point of no return. We will see whether they deliver the experience they once promised...

~Brock~