I dislike MS more than Sony, I can appreciate some of sony's motives behind their PS3 strategy, but others are just plain stupid and unfair to their fanbase.
I will happily say that MS have made A LOT or mistakes rushing their 360 to the market, they took a lot of risks and not many have paid off but they do have the money to throw at their customers to sweeten things.
Overall i don't really think that Sony are getting that much unfair negativity compared to MS (at least not now), most message boards on the net are full of people complaining about the RRoD, Updates killing their machine, scratched disks and so on, its got to the point were its become that common for a 360 to fail, nobody makes a big deal out of it anymore.
It was very trendy to dislike sony for a while, thats wearing off, I have a feeling that the people posting the anti sony stuff were mostly 360 fans, some of which were just annoyed their blessed 360 was sat there winking its red eye at them.
I think in general, the public is warming to the PS3 and moving away from the 360, the 360 has its big guns out there now, and its a great game, I think the public is generally feeling that the 360 has shown everything its capable of and looking at the PS3 to see what it can do with MGS4 and so on.
As great as Halo3 is, i also believe that its much publicised shortcomings are a huge thorn for the 360. Halo3 is the pinacle of the xbox brand, and for it to come out looking somewhat disapointing, and in 640p is a burden. I do appreciate their reasons for this, but in the publics eye the game should have been so much more graphically. It is very easy for sony to exploit this now with their 'full HD' garbage. Its all very well Bungie explaining the technicalities behind it, but theyre difficult for the average consumer to grasp, after MS ramming the whole 'always high def' 720p/1080p crap down our throats the last 2 years, its very easy for those same consumers to understand that 640p is lower.
