Mr. Clark

You shame humanity.

Can't recall, but any word on a release date?

kizza kutaragi, I'm not exactly sure what kind of point your trying to make. You say that the PS3 has a more exciting line-up, but I'm going to have to ask you to clarify, exactly what line-up are you referring to? Their non-existent launch line-up? Or just random games that have no indication of a launch date?

Where exactly did you get the idea that you had to recreate your character every time you wished to head online in Fight Night 3? You create your character in the Career mode and go from there. The manuals come with games for a reason.

I find it odd that you're speaking about failing 360's and Microsoft's inability to properly manufacture enough consoles for the Australian launch. I have a lack of knowledge for that specific area of the world, but I suppose if what you say is true, we could all draw comparisons to Sony's launch of the PS2 in America.

While you may declare yourself to be an impartial party, you quite eagerly leap to the conclusion that Sony will automatically leap ahead to gain dominance of the home console market. You also extoll the virtues of the PlayStation 3 without having ever played it (or anyone aside from Phil Harrison). Those two items, plus the fact that you have the incredibly adolescent habit of abbreviating Microsoft's name as M$. If you're an impartial party, I'd hate to see what someone biased might say.

You nag at the Xbox 360's online play too. This I find amusing most of all. If there's at least one thing Microsoft managed to do right in their mergence with the home console market, it was implement online play. Its hard for me to imagine that Sony will have all the kinks worked out for the PNP (PSNP?) online stuff right away. It took Microsoft a year to get Xbox Live working right, and from the looks of it, Nintendo's going through their growing pains right now with the DS. Sony's not going to be able to leap headfirst into the online ring, going from the terribly lackluster PS2 online support, and suddenly have the best service available. Microsoft's going to have that title for awhile, until we can see what Nintendo's Wi-Fi Virtual Console and Sony's PNP are capable of, with our own eyes, and not through the mouths of PR guys. Everything else until then is just that, words, and if you're so readily enticed by speeches, then I've got a handful of magic beans in my pocket I'm sure you'll be interested in.

Last but not least, you make the proclamation that everyone around you except yourself has a 360 that's failed and/or died shortly after launch. That could certainly be true, as I'm sure everyone that visits this site is more than well-versed on the subject of the Xbox 360's hardware troubles. However, given your previous questionable comments, it sounds like more blustering.

In my close-knit group of friends that are dedicated gamers, only one of us has had a 360 die on us. That would be me.

As easy as it would be to start complimenting Microsoft on their speedy delivery and make it sound like my console breaking was the best thing to ever happen to me, I'm not. I'm unfortunately not a fanboy, I'm an impartial gamer...wait. Impartial is the wrong word, since that's what you proclaim yourself to be, and I certainly don't share your 'impartial' opinions, I suppose I'm Less-than Impartial.

Having your console just die isn't fun. Having to go through a three hour wait just to get a tech service guy on the phone wasn't fun either. Waiting two weeks for the console to return when the tech service guy tell me it would be four days wasn't terribly exciting either. To top off this list, having Microsoft fail to send your hard drive back certainly didn't make my day, and neither did the extra time needed to haggle with more tech service guys to get them to admit that they had originally asked me to send it in.

See that? Microsoft's not perfect, and I have my own personal story proving that point. Sony's not perfect either, and neither is Nintendo. To pretend otherwise is to turn your head aside and leap head-long into the open arms of ignorance.

So before you decide to start another rant, please remember that.

This was a news story about getting to watch the very pretty PS3 demo's, not the opportunity to stand up on your soapbox and scream to the masses that the sky above Microsoft Studios is falling.

Hey, they made Chronicles of Riddick work in the First-Person perspective, I'm sure they can work it in with The Darkness.