You know, Sony is only released in twop regions and has 1.5 million consoles sold, right? 1.5 in two months isn't exactly a bad thing. Especially for a $600 console.

And Sony dying? It took ten years of red for Sega to die. And while the PS3 isn't doing well, the PS2 and PSP are pure profit and still selling well. (Yes, we all know DS is kicking PSPs ass but PSP is still usually selling about 70K a week in Japan alone and that's NOY a bad thing). And even if the Playstation brand suddenly turned into nothing but a money pit, you have the Bravia tvs turning profit, Cybershots are increasing in popularity, plus what we all know will pretty much save many a Sony Sectors ass this year, Spiderman 3.

In fact, given a banner year of clusterfucks any one company can have (Immersion lawsuit, Laptop ordeals, and even the money pit of the PS3), the fact that Sony stocks are on a rise suddenly can only be considered a fact that Sony isn't going anywhere.

I don't expect PS3 to start regaining lost ground until next christmas (although the march releases not only look tasty, but show up in time for second christmas), PS2 is showing no signs of slowing down and Sony is doing all it cane to make sure it's keeping their current cash cow alive.

Having said that, I wish the PS3 was a little better on software. Another thing that is annoying the piss out of me is the multiplayer. Not online multiplayer but single machine multiplayer. And Microsoft is just as guilty about this. There should be a hell of a lot more four player splitscreen games than there are. The system takes four controllers, four controllers is the standard, why is Wii the only one doing this? The last three games I looked at for PS3 were literally "when I have friends over" and the lack of 4 player spiltscreen left those games on a shelf. And Microsoft is doing this too. The emphasis of online multiplayer at the expense of single machine multiplayer is getting pretty annoying. And if you think I'm unjustified in this bitch, I present the following.

Super Bomberman
Goldeneye
Super Mario Kart

This isn't a sector of gaming that should be left to sports games.