No more preaching please!, Yes, fanboys suck, yes both systems "need" each other. This board would ALSO suck if no one had an opinion or a "favorite" of some kind. Let the 12 year olds fuss. There ARE facts out there that these 12 year olds don't bother reading, and that's what pisses me off. Open your newspapers or something and dive into these businesses a little. You will see that the only innovative thing Sony has done this past decade has been to create Blu-Ray. HUGE step, yes. But they copy, copy, copy from other companies aside from that, and it turns me off. They come across as a very unoriginal, yet arrogant corporation.
Sony overprices everything game related, and they don't learn their lesson when no one buys their rip-offs (PS3 in '06, PSPgo now). If they were only game makers, they'd be out of business because they don't know how to market to people, simple as that. Yes there are fun games on the PS3 and PSP. They're lucky for that because they have no back-up in the gaming industry, no ingenuity. (Remember, if Blu-ray failed to HD-DVD, the PS3 would be the most expensive failure in gaming history, and I would have laughed, again, they are lucky)
Microsoft, as of right now, has brought nothing new to the table either since Windows 3.1....I'm dead serious. Natal might be cool, but I bet it has a terrible rate of 3rd party game development.
These are major gripes I have with both companies, and I wish others would gripe about them too. I'm as guilty as anyone else. I love some Ratchet and Clank, and I sorta "love" that overrated Halo bullshit. When you think about how LITTLE these companies actually do for us gamers though besides make us pay for "extra content" now, well, it chaps my ass.
I don't like where the gaming industry is going. I hope the future isn't ONLY online gaming, I hope you can actually "master" a game again without spending hundreds on that extra content over a year's time. I REALLY hope it's not all digital downloads like what that money grubbin Sony has in store for us RIGHT NOW with that silly ass PSPgo.
Start rantin and bitchin about my rantin and bitchin cause I know it'll happen. I'm just fed up. Fed up when I see gamers like us allow companies like these to go down this path. It'll only get more expensive and inconvenient as time goes. Case in point, R&C 1-3 for the PS2 all took about 30 hours to complete, Deadlocked was shorter by far, Size Matters was even shorter, and now this one sounds REALLY short, yet we blindly pay the standard amount. 60 bucks for this game (I hope this reviewer is lying about the 12 hour completion time.)