Entry 9

Yo!

(*pant, pant) Okay. Please don't be mad, world. I swear, I would've done the blog last week as scheduled, but last week was really hectic, and at the last second, my dog ate my blog post, and... Oh, who am I kidding. I don't even own a dog. But, my mother just got back into town from California that previous weekend, and since I haven't seen her since my 18th birthday back in October, we've been sorta catching up over the last week. Plus, remember in my first blog post, I hinted at a big, BIG media project coming up? Well, it's kicking up into high gear now, but unfortunately, it's STILL way too early to leak any details out just yet. Hang tight, people.

Now that I'm back in regular form here, I gotta talk about E3. For those of you who don't know, E3, the Electronic Entertainment Exposition, is the #1 destination for industry insiders, journalists, and the select few members of the public who get in through "special connections" (lucky bastards), to see what's coming up in the world of video games. It's held during the second Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of May every year at the Los Angeles Convention Center, right next to the Staples Center in downtown L.A. This year was the 12th E3, and it was apparently all about two names: Nintendo and Microsoft.

Nintendo laid out their plans for GameCube's final hurrah of exclusivity before sharing retail shelves with the system formerly known as "Revolution", but as of a couple weeks ago, is now known as "Wii." Yes, that's not a typo. Microsoft decided to outline the rest of their year-one Xbox 360 slate and give out some previews of the 2007 lineup, and they capped off their big press conference last Thursday by dropping a 21st-century Hiroshima Bomb: They actually ADVOCATE buying a Wii over the PlayStation 3. If you want in on some E3 coverage yourself, IGN's coverage is pretty darn good, consistently at that. Click HERE to check out their E3 stuff.
Personally, I've never really cared much for the PlayStation brand as a whole, because to me, it's only good for three things: Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter, and Gran Turismo. Period.

I will say I do own a PSP, and until last week, I was planning to buy a PS3, until Sony shot themselves in the foot with a launch price tag that actually trumps X360: 500-600 bucks. $500 for a core system with a built-in 20GB hard drive, and a full car payment for the premium system, with a 60GB hard drive, and some other stuff I forgot about. Now, I understand that this is probably going to be the single cheapest way to get a Blu-Ray disc player this side of 2010, but nevertheless, if your pricing strategy, 1st year software release list, and glaring lack of quality third-party developer support (those darn development kits are probably a king's ransom! ...give or take a piece of royal jewelry. Or something) is so profoundly off that your closest competitors are practically ENDORSING each other, it might be time to rethink a few things, Sony.

......................But I'm still not selling my PSP. Beats the living crap out of that retarded DS handheld ANY DAY. That's right, Nintendo, I said it! PSP rules, DS drools! I've never used my PSP for homebrew, nor do I want to or need to. God, I can't wait for the 3.0 firmware upgrade!!!!!!!!! Come on, SCEA! Prove yourself useful beyond the overpriced, undersupported next-gen console effort and show your handheld market some love! And incidentally, it wouldn't kill you to loosen your increasingly difficult to crack hold on the homebrew community! Like I said, I don't use it, never really needed it, but it'd be nice to have and use. .........But that's just me.

Later!

-D.

P.S. What, am I talking in an empty room, here? it wouldn't kill some of you readers to let some of your comments on... well, me...land on this page at some point. Kudos, criticism, I don't care. Just something. All the other bloggers are getting 'em. That's all.