Would We Want the PS3 to win or lose?

[Gballzack]

Personally I don't want Sony in gaming anymore, they've saved and ressurected the industry with the PS1 and there is no arguing the success of the PS2, but they do too much to gaming that I don't want to see become its future. I don't want forced and inconsistant regionalization of games (i.e. Capcom's Megaman series), I don't want a machine I can't rely on for more than five years, I don't want increasingly expensive pseudo-PCs masquerading as game consoles, I don't want Blu-Ray (in fact I don't want any HD format for that matter, I'm content with DVDs), I don't want to have to install my games before I can play them, I don't want to have to download patches to make my console work the way it should have when it came off the production line, I don't want a future of non-physical formats, I don't want the UMD, I don't want root kits on my CDs, I don't want PSP rap songs, I don't want viral marketing, I don't want vertical monopolies, I don't want a fragile handheld whose only selling point is its big screen and graphics and I don't want an arrogant ass smug company making a pageant of any PR event and telling me what I want with a big shitty grin on their face while thumbing through a big wad of my cash in their hands.

I'm not terrible fond of Microsoft either for many of the same reasons. Both Microsoft and Sony piss me off in how they're turning console gaming ever more into half-assed pc gaming for their own convenience. I'm also growing more and more irritated with ever shortening single player aspect of newer games due to the high production costs of such graphically intense spectacles forcing gamers to rely more on online gaming whether they like it or not. I did not buy a console to trouble shoot updates or download patches, I did not buy a console to play online-dependent games, and I most certainly didn't buy a console to supplement game play and innovation for top of the line graphics at a price fitting the inflated technological economy of the machine.

I'm not happy with every decision Nintendo has made either (Hell they were just as bad as Sony in the later days of the SNES, Virtual Boy and N64) but I can live with most of them and as long as I have quality tested games that don't need patches and a console that can outlast cockroaches in a nuclear holocaust, I'll be content. I don't think they're the gods of gaming, I just think they do the bare minimum that anyone should expect from a company in that they provide a reliable product. Sorry quality control has become a secondary issue to superior graphics for many gamers but if they don't like it they can go back to playing on the PC where they came from.