I agree.

Its called the "watchdog" of the press. Just like how they treat the government/officials, once they stop aw'ing and praising the subject they start to become more cynical in the type of news they present to keep people interested and to stir up more media. Of course, the more popular the person/brand the more cynical they are and more attention they give.

" Sony's the market leader right now, and somehow it's bad that they know they are?"



Those three companies "knew" they were leaders....and what happened?







They failed.





The kid with the highest grade who goes around saying, "i'm smarter then you!"



Will get his ass kicked for being a jack ass. And may look retarded when he makes a B on his next test for not studying as hard as he should...thinking he is the second coming of jesus christ(there was a sony ad of jesus holding the ps3 as if it were the cross)

"defending the patriotic offense of 360 fanbois and jaded game columnists."



You think only americans are buying the 360?



That could be said about the ps3 and the japanese.



Don't be a racist fool.

the 360 is selling in other places besides Japan and America.



And its doing quite well in Europe.



The xbox wasn't number 1 in America...the ps2 was.



so I don't see what Contrass is getting about only patriotics are buying the 360...when it is selling in America, Europe, and a few in japan..



i bought a ps2...not for the country of Japan...but for the games.

And i'm getting a 360 and a wii.



Right now...I'm not hyped for the ps3...but I will be.



Actually...believe it or not...I'm seeing more japanese developed games that i'm interested in on the 360 then the ps3(at the moment).



I don't think the 360 becomes a game machine after you get a wi-fi adapter...or hd-dvd...its a game machine for the games.



I say negative posts about sony not because i'm a loyalist of the microsoft and nitendo camps...because i'm not impressed with sony(yet).



They want the ps3 to be a media center first then a game machine..that really dissapoints me...and makes me uneasy to get one...when at launch...I only see maybe one or two games worth getting for me...but with the wii and 360...I saw/see more then that.



I'll be getting a ps3...mostly for the games promised to come after launch.



But i didn't buy a 360 because of it being a microsoft machine...but because of the games at launch...and the research I did(and have done for the ps3) that showed me more games coming.

from what i've seen the ps3 is being marketed as mainly a games machine and then they have had to stress the point that the multimedia functions it can perform are not insignificant... look what they showed at e3, everyone kept complaining that sony had only shown spec sheets and the odd rolling demo of games, so sony went all out and gave us as much game footage as they could at e3. that meant that their show was slightly unimpressive in some ways, due to their single-minded concentration on just games, whereas microsoft and nintendo had time and the presence of mind to concentrate on showmanship and other stuff.



ps3 IS about games, and we all know that really, but sony are trying to stress the importance of bluray and wireless and all that.



i guess if you consider what people mean by arrogant then sony are being arrogant, the way they simply say 'we can sell 5 million ps3s without even games' is arrogant... but that's all due to the fact that they're in such a strong position with regards to the games market. it's all too easy for a company to get to such a place that they are too confident, and perhaps they are, or perhaps the ps3 is really that good?

arrogance is not necessarily unfounded, it's simply slightly poorly expressed confidence.





the article (in joystiq) and interview were done badly, and if i were phil harrison i would be getting quite sick of people repeatedly bashing sony just because they're the largest target. he did only ask negative questions, and if you're in charge of making ps3 sound good how are you to answer such loaded questions? the guy showed his lack of integrity by even hinting at what was said off record, the whole point is that it's privileged information...





this whole fanboy thing gets tired so easily, we've all been here before, and yet it goes on. can't we wait? ok, those with 360s go play them and enjoy them... those who are waiting for ps3 who are you to say ps3 will be better than 360?

i say wait until you can judge both side by side, then let the battle commence. right now 360 is winning without a fight, but not as much as it could be...

gamming is still main priority, if it wasnt, we wouldnt have 100% backwards compatabilty, well over 100 games in development, at least 30 of them being released in the first three to four months, a majority of them are good promising games too. But when you say playstation you think games first and only. Sony is wanting to expand your thinking and are emphasizing their multimedia capabilities so those who only think of playstation as a gaming console only, will know that it can do more. Its just a marketing plan, games came first since the ps1 now we need to show it can do more than just games, it can do everything youd want something to do infront of a tv. This appeals to nongamers and the ignorant. Hell people paid 300-400 dollars on web-tv when it was out and all it could do was surft the web. People will have an all in one media center that will play all media formats(minus umd and hd-dvd), look at pictures, listen to music, play games, and if they have a psp they can stream media content and games to the psp from what reports have said about the interconectivit y of the two. This means youd have things similar to pimpstreamer and mytunes built in, plus maybe some actual use of the game share. Optimistically speaking, i would probably kill over if i found out that games could be processed on your ps3 and play them on your psp, sending button commands via wireless and whatever is on screen is prerendered up to the frame gameplay if not pretty damn close. With wifi capabilities like aoss and other wifi hardware built for the mmo multiplayer gamer, its becoming a good possibility. Im not saying what i just said is true, its just some of my understanding of what they said at e3 with interconnectivi ty.



Anyways, i became off track. If you look close minded, yes it does seem like games are second, but in truth they have been first since the ps1, sony has emphisized games, backwards comapatibility to the point were we expect it as the norm now. Say playstation and youll get games, in a few years, you may say playsation and still hear games first but then youll get everything else.