Chris

If you don't know what Fire Emblem is, perhaps you shouldn't strain yourself into having an opinion about it, hmmm?

My, what an excellent editorial. Good, solid journalism.

... If you like to read high-nosed sermons which seem to be an attempt at injecting one's own bias into others, anyway.

Normally I would applaud a site for issuing caveats in the face of rumor, were it not for two things:

1. Joystiq hasn't really been a bastion of journalistic integrity these last couple weeks, which causes me to wonder about their motives for saying... well, anything they've got motivation enough to want to say.

2. Sony's own announcements have often been about as reliable as internet rumor.

Basically the situation is so cloudy at the moment that no fanperson does their argument any favors by bandying "facts" regarding the PS3 about, excluding the very basics.

Oh, yes, NotoriousMOFO, controls have never made a difference in a game. Not ever. Every dollar ever spent on gameplay improvements is a dollar that could have been spent on something more integral to the gaming experience--say a nice, robust CGI cut-scene, for instance--but which has, sadly, been wasted on something that any rational human being would immediately have identified as completely expendable. Insanity.

Really.

I swear.

Boots:

Actually, uhh, I barely cared about the x-box, and spend most of my gaming time and money on the PS2. But there's no comfort in phrases like "only a 100 difference," prophecies like "will lack," and emotionally-clouded adjectives like "superior hardware" (especially when qualified with a vague statement that an apparent evenness between two rival consoles in GPU and CPU should be ignored--What? Were you talking about the unestablished BluRay format? Or is the PS3 simply that much prettier?).

Between the ridiculous price point, and the attempt to functionally copy much of what their rivals have innovated (a sin when, at least in the case of the gyroscopic controller, they detract much from their rival's iteration while adding very little) rather than themselves innovating, Sony has lost my business for quite a while. Worse yet, they've turned me to a more avid consumer of a competitor's product, as I had determined to purchase a Wii and either a 360 or a PS3, initially.

I'm going to own both a 360 and a Wii. Do you really think I'm going to want my Harvest Moon on the former?

Hoho is very grown up, is all.