Prior to E3, I loved Sony to death. I had stuck with Nintendo since the NES era and I was ready to move on, as I had not seen many games recently for Nintendo that appealed to me. I was ready to "grow" into the PS, since the PS2 seemed like a great system. I know by now that the PS2 is terribly outdated, so I decided to go for a PS3.

Until…the E3 came. Then, I despised the PS3 like hell. Why do you ask? For various reasons: One, the Blu-ray. This little tingy device is nothing but premature technology. Like everything else that's "new" in electronics, these things are outrageously expensive because of its high production costs at the beginning. Sony is like a desperate little child trying to stick their toy into as many places as possible so it gets noticed. Sony wants to stick Blu-ray down our throats so it becomes popular. What do we get? Premature and outrageously over-priced technology that WE have to pay for. Them good 'ole CDs still work just fine, so this is obviously an unnecessary change.

Still then, however, we have to look at the rest of the "features". Oh, what features? The motion-sensor technology?

That was blatant ripoff of the Wii. You can't tell me it was "inspired" by Nintendo. Oh sure, that technology was available ages ago, but it's no mere coincidence that this was introduced right in the middle of the Wii craze.

The integrated hard drive that had virtually no difference from a separate hard drive?

I mean, you're really just paying for the same hard drive. If it's external, you're paying for it separately, and if it's internal, you're paying those 70$ or so extra for the console. You're never actually saving anything.

The underdeveloped, high-priced and potentially buggy Blu-ray?

I mean, the Blu-ray is really new. There's no piece of technology that is flawless at launch, so having a massive system recall is not that farfetched.

The Linux and web browsing capabilities that have barely anything to do with gaming?

The upcoming scratch free disks?

I mean, unless you have some serious issues putting disks in their repsective place when not using them, CDs can last a lifetime.

The super-powerful specs?

Those specs bring me to another point. I generally don't like where the gaming industry is going now. All that matters is the pretty graphics, the massive voice actors, the awesome soundtrack and the online capabilities. When was the last time I saw something completely innovative? I mean, the FPS genre has had no major overhaul since the Doom era, given all those FPS's play the same except with prettier graphics and a few tweaks here and there (like the drivable vehicles in Halo). There's 9,999 war games that all look EXACTLY alike. And finally, all the graphical schemes of the games look exactly the same. Everyone is going for realism, so every single freaking game looks freaking the same! The only thing that games have now going for them is the hype, about how many hours the gameplay has (who cares if I'm staring at a pretty-faced MMORPG hero for 20,000 hours if I'm not having any fun?), how realisitc the graphics are and how "awesome" the soundtrack is. To me, the gaming industry is going full speed in the wrong direction.

So…the 600-dollar PS3 is that price because it's in full support of everything I've said above. We're paying $600 to support the millionth generic FPS, War game, football game and MMORPG out there. The gaming industry cares not to make things that are fun. They just want to make things that sell. And since pretty graphics and Dolby Surround sells to them, they'll keep cranking Medal of Honor 800 if that's what it takes to get them money. We're only going to be paying for the super-computer designed to run the super-spec game, not the super-fun game. Who the freak cares about pretty graphics if we're not going to have any fun while doing so? The way I see it, that's the gaming industry's sole focus: all the bells and whistles and nothing on the core of a game.

So the PS3 is most definitely NOT the way to go for me. If I'm having a blast playing MegaMan V, I'm never going to need more than 8-Bit graphics. Ergo, the money being spent on the supercomputer PS3 is only going to power those generic games I've grown to hate. My only option is obviously to go for a Wii (again…staying with Nintendo…again), but since I'm a bit skeptical about the entire motion-sensor thing (some risks taken aren't always the best. Anyone remember the VirtualBoy?), I'll wait about a year to see how it all fairs out.