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It Is Official: PS3 is a Complete Flop

posted November 2, 2007 - 12:55pm
It Is Official: PS3 is a Complete Flop

Bob Sapp's moniker, "The Beast," is fitting. He is an awesome sight to behold at 6'4", 350 lbs of solid muscle. I have no doubt that he could outbench every MMA fighter in the business and beat them all in arm wrestling. Unfortunately for Sapp, there's more to fighting than raw horsepower. All the squats and military presses he is capable of doing could not save him from Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera's armbar. Noguiera weathered Bob Sapp's hellacious slams and fearsome ground and pound and managed to get the top mount position for a sweet armbar finisher. Mind you, "Big Nog" is over 100 lbs lighter than Sapp. So was Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, who stopped Sapp with a single straight left hand to the face (Sapp graciously explained his defeat as a result of a thumb in the eye). Then you have Sony's Playstation 3, which you could say is the "Bob Sapp of the Videogame Industry." Boasting some serious specs powered by the highly touted "Cell Processor," and doubling as a Blu Ray player, the PS3 shook up the gaming world when it hit the shelves back in November of 2006. Unfortunately, all the specs and extra features mean absolutely nothing for a videogame console when it cannot deliver great games. Games that were released for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 look and play better on the Xbox 360, which sells for $200 lower than the PS3. The very few games that look somewhat better on the PS3 (if you squint and throw away all reason) had many more months of development behind them, and also had to make compromises in other areas in order to produce slightly better graphics. A good example would be Fight Night Round 3, which came out for the Xbox 360 10 months earlier than it did for the PS3. The PS3 version has more detailed character models that display bulging veins and very realistic sweat. All at the expense of having eye-straining, choppy animations and quadruple the loading times. Sorry, Kaz Hirai, that is NOT the definition of being "more powerful." I must tip my hat off to Sony for not pulling the plug on the PS3. In less than a month, the PS3 will celebrate its first birthday. It has survived this long without a killer app. Metal Gear Solid 4, originally slated for a holiday release this year, has been postponed to at least "Q2 2008." That's just lovely for all PS3 owners. Xbox 360 owners got theirs when Gears of War came out a year after the 360's launch. GOTY winner Oblivion came out for the 360 just 4 months after the console's launch, as well as GRAW and Fight Night Round 3. Since the PS3's release, 95% of its games has been a disappointment. It has survived through sheer Sony propaganda and spins of marketing geniuses who continue to push the issue of the PS3's specs. Did you know that it can fold proteins? That's great. As a gamer, I couldn't care less. As game developers continue to defect from Sony's nightmare of a console I eagerly anticipate the headline, "PS3 Officially Discontinued; Sony to Focus on New Line of Deodorants."



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