Step Away from General Gaming

I've taken an injunction out against myself to keep away from the General Gaming forum on BXB because everytime I read a PS3 thread in there I want to head butt people for being so conned by a new shiney toy.

I'm an avid Xbox fan(boy) and coupled with that I'm not really very pleased with how Sony have been treating European customers and generally acting like arrogant pricks for sometime. What makes me laugh is that the PS3 fanboys that visit BXB because it's their community get really annoyed when almost every single other person on the fansite starts making negative comments about the PS3.

I'll admit that most of my comments about the PS3 on BXB have been of a fanboy nature and deliberately inflammable but these PS3 fanboys are so easy to wind up. I only have to throw a little meat out on the hook and I'm reeling the poor guys in.

It's pretty obvious that most people are waiting for a price drop on the PS3, I was chatting to a random in GAME and he said the price point was putting him off, while the people that bought it on launch are clearly Sony fanboys. You have to be to be willing to spend £425 on a console full of unproven technology, has some distinctly average launch titles and looks like a George Forman Grill.

I'll admit, the PS3 has the web browser, which is a good feature, but it doesn't have any kind of integration with your PC like the 360 does. It's trying to replace the PC, not work with it like the 360, Vista and Windows Live does and that's a very very arrogant goal to target with a games console.

Another thing I like about the PS3 is the disc slot because it's one where you push the Blu-Ray disc in and it just kinda sucks the disc in. I want that on the 360 Elite please, the good old DVD tray is well 2002. But the PS3 Fanboys on BXB are just finding arguement for arguements sake now so I've stopped playing along and putting a big foot on their PS3 bug.

If you've followed the industry closely you'll realise that the PS3 is simply Sony's latest attempt to muscle in on the whole PC market with a console. They wanted to do it with the PS2 but, thankfully, they focused on making it a great games console. They tried it with the PSX but that flopped badly due to a lack of customer interest.

Now they're here with the PS3. Offering all the services you can already get with a PC and a 360 in one box for £425 and a lot less tried and tested. If you try and be good at everything, you're not amazing at one thing.

I remember betting £420 on the original Xbox and for my cash I got the console, four games, two pads and the DVD remote. You don't get anything close to that with the PS3. I'm never buying one. I got fed up of the way Sony squeezed the gaming industry to death with the PS2 post-Dreamcast and pre-Xbox and gave up on them for that exact reason. Xbox for kills agent, Xbox for kills!