The Whitehawk

It’s been a while since I’ve made a rant on this website, but I have been keeping quiet for far too long. After months of speculation, and bad rumors against the Playstation 3, I want to make the rant to end all rants against the Playstation 3. Rumor has it, that some people that have bought the console have actually been able to play games on it!Don’t you people realize how shocking this announcement is? For months without end people have been whining for every little reason against Sony, and now that it’s console is actually among us (us of course being, in this case, the US and Japan) some people are actually playing games on it and having fun while doing it. What a shock!

On a more serious note, some blogs need to stop exaggerating and posting every little bit of negative news they can about a popular console. There was actually an article today about how the Playstation 3 gathers dust! Please people, please forgive the Playstation 3 for being a solid object, and thus capable of being a landing spot for the small particles that float around your bedroom.

But wait, there are better rants against the Playstation 3 out there, one user claims that his Playstation 3 was scratched in 10 seconds. According to his claims, he took it out of the box, and noticed it had gathered a lot of dust, therefore he scrubbed it with his hands and it was already scratched! How many of you have ever scratched any gadget or plastic toy by rubbing your hand on it?

Thankfully not everyone is so easily eluded, one user actually read the content of the article and wrote:

is your hand made out of steel wool?!

Is the Playstation 3 that bad that people have to make an article about every little defect that a dozen of users, from the thousands of owners, have? IGN even gave the console a 10/10 rating on future potential.

The PS3’s strongest prospects, though, lay with its software. In 2007 alone we’ll be seeing an armada of promising videogames. Allow me to name drop: Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R., Eye of Judgment, Indiana Jones, Lair, Haze, Stranglehold, Golden Axe, Virtua Fighter 5, Def Jam: Icon, Heavenly Sword, MotorStorm, Warhawk, Burnout 5, Formula One, Medal of Honor Airborne, Army of Two, Mercenaries 2, Oblivion, The Darkness, Unreal Tournament 2007, Calling All Cars, Alone in the Dark, Brothers in Arms, Gran Turismo HD, Spider-Man 3, the Naughty Dog Game, NBA Street, Dark Sector, Frontlines, Grand Theft Auto IV, Killzone, Ratchet and Clank, Assassin’s Creed, The White Council, and Metal Gear Solid 4 are but a few of the 100+ PlayStation 3 games expected to ship before the end of the year… and that doesn’t even include the dozens and dozens we don’t even know about yet.

I’m not going to purchase a Playstation 3 this Christmas (it isn’t out in Europe). My money is going for Nintendo, and even they are suffering from stupid articles about people who throw their Wiimote (the controller) around the house, and are actually surprised (!!!) when it breaks stuff! (!!!!!!!!!!!). There are others who let go of the controller after swinging their arms really fast and get upset with Nintendo because the wrist strap broke…

People… the wrist strap is there so the controller will hand from your hand instead of falling to the floor if you happen to need your hands to do something else, not to stop it from flying towards your television when you swing at it like you were batting for a home run.

Next week, the Wii is coming out, and hopefully I’ll be able to play it during the weekend (if it arrives on time). In March, the Playstation 3 comes out, and if Gran Turismo ends up being a launch title I might consider getting it also. My point is, these consoles are actually working, their problems are nowhere as bad as the problems the XBox 360 had when it was released. Don’t you remember the heat complaints? Or is Sony the only company that releases defected products at launch?

Griffith General