It just sounds like your friend is a tool, and you want to blame someone else for his stupidity. Maybe you should find a friend that isn't weak willed. If your friend looked at it with any logic, he'd see that the PS3 is the greatest deal of this generation and that the haters are just that, haters. It's not that hard to resist the news corp/clearchannel big media crowd if you have an eighth of a brain.