http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...570831,00.html
TIME Magazine has deemed the PlayStation 3 as one of 2006’s five phenomena that didn’t live up to the hype.
The article from the December 25 issue of time begins, “Beware all hype. Here are five phenomena that captivated the media for a spell, then turned out to be less than huge.”
It continued to list Samuel L. Jackson’s cheesy Snakes on a Plane film, the canned Fox TV interview with O.J. Simpson about his sick fictional recounting of the murder of his wife and her friend in his book, “If I did it,” the TV show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and downhill skier bad boy Bode Miller.
And then there’s the entry for the PS3: “The big story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony [emphasis TIME’s]. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble when you get beat by something called a Wii.”
Man even thou i prefer the 360 over this i was really hoping that sony would for once walk the walk