The Robotic Hymn of Sony Doom

I looked over these links and article summaries that I'm about to let you all into, and then I realized something... I'm a Sony hater. I think it's mostly because they dashed my heart on a rock of salt when the pricing information came down and lit a match to the whole damn thing when they announced availability. Oh, wait, you don't know? Oh my god. You have to read this hate rant then, HILARIOUS to anyone. Anyone.

PS3 shipments are being cut IN HALF from what they stated in September. Anyone who wants a PS3 can just go get a hot dog from their local gas station and then put it on a string and play with that until next year. Of course the hot dog doesn’t have HDMI and it doesn't support 1080p either, but it *is* made out of questionable bits of things and it's available everywhere *gas* is sold. Hmmmm… hot dog or maybe a Wii + 360 combo? Hmmm…

It's a given that all of the launch day PS3's will sell-out everywhere. Not necessarily because everyone wants one, but because some people actually want one and everyone knows that they can make a quick dollar by selling one on eBay. That may seem cynical, but not after you find out about the sales numbers that rolled in from the Japanese release of the PS3. By the numbers:
- Total PS3 units sold: 81,639
- Total PS3 games sold: 66,684.
That means that 14,955, or almost 20%, of the PS3's sold did not go home with A GAME. How the hell are you going to feast on some 1080p glory without A GAME? You're not! Not at all! No chance! ZERO.

If you do want a PS3, you'll also want a HDTV to play it on and CompUSA is determined to thrust your squalling soul straight into The Future. If you want to buy a PS3 from CompUSA, you'll have to also purchase a Sony HDTV that is 40" or larger. This bizarro world scenario has landed on our terra firma and means that at CompUSA you are looking at a minimum PS3 purchase of $2300. That doesn't include games, but it probably does include partial burial services. I say partial because I imagine that with so many people dying of sticker shock, CompUSA will just have to toss the bodies out the back door and let them rot near the dumpsters until the rioting stops. How many lives must be lost, CompUSA? How manyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!

As Grr of Invader Zim fame would say, "doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom."


Find out if you local Toys'R'Us is doing a midnight sale for the Wii.


PS. Yes, the title of this post references the Robotic Hymn of Doom by Danger Doom. The Mouse and the Mask is a great CD - buy it.