Why all the Sony hate?

[Gballzack]

Sony is hated because they took the most anticipated console of all time and turned it the most hated.

"Oh here's the successor to the PS2, bet you want it huh? Oh sorry, you only work one job, guess you can't afford it I'll just have to put it up on this shelf where you can't reach it."

That and not everyone is exactly ready to jump to a new disc format so forcing the consumer to support Blu-Ray if they choose to buy a PS3 at a premium is somewhat irritating to your potential Sony consumer. Especially when there wasn't a Blu-Ray market to justify such a coupling at that point in time or a legitimate saturation of HD-TVs while on the subject.

"PS3 utilizes Blu-Ray better than any other disc format, its games wouldn't work on anything but Blu-Ray"

Isn't that because those games were made specifically to exploit the disc format they had no other choice but to, Blu-Ray, and in compensating for the disc format's short commings with unique solutions achieve nothing more than a cycle of working around Blu-Ray for the sake of supporting Blu-Ray not the gaming experience?

"But Blu-Ray is the future! HD-DVD sucks!"

Who said anyone has to choose one by default of the other's success or failure, HD-DVD is in the same boat of futility. Is Blu-Ray the future? Maybe, call me in another five years and we'll talk then, ok.

Now Sony is losing third party exclusives and boasting a line up of upcomming exclusives that rival the typical 360 game in mediocrity.

"Look, there's this new game comming out for the PS3, I have no idea what its genre, gameplay or replay value is like, but it looks pretty and I see swords and explosions and could easily convince any 13 year old that its a good game at first glance, has to be a killer app."

You see, to those not desperately trying to find a reason to justify the PS3 or justify one aspect of the PS3 they really like, there is really little inherent appeal or draw to this console.