Wow, did THIS thing start something or WHAT?

It’s been a few days since we first heard about the X-Box 360 Japanese catalog in which it mentioned the PS3 more times than Sony’s marketing department does. From saying that the PS3 was inferior in playing multiplatform games to saying that the Arcade SKU was less than the PS3 by a few hundred dollars (you know, until you want to add the propriety hard drive and everything else that comes with the Pro and Elite SKUs, then it a few hundred dollars MORE). Through all of it, we heard one very loud website called PushSquare mention something about how Microsoft is treated in the gaming media as opposed to how Sony has been lately:

“Now we know it’s only marketing, and that’s fine, but here’s our point: the gaming community holds such a double standard towards Sony these days that we’re 101% convinced if Sony had released this pamphlet we’d be sifting through hundreds upon hundreds of: “ZOMG Sony should focus on their own system not the competition, they should shut up, make some games, Sony sucks” comments. You’ve read the ones.

We haven’t come across a single comment suggesting the same about Microsoft’s tactics. Interesting eh?”

Judging from the few articles that have popped up recently alone, coupled with what I’ve seen from the past year or so, there’s so much truth to that statement that it’s scary.

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Oh, boy, here we go again.

Apparently, Microsoft knows they don’t have too much in the way of games in 2009. Why? Because they’ve gone and shown us why Sony is probably not wasting their money on marketing: MS does a lot of Sony advertising themselves.

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To whoever directed me to the true video and whoever originally posted the video to YouTube, thank you.

It seems that GameTrailers has been busy whipping up another scam comparison video (age verification required to see the video through GT), this time of the upcoming game X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to be released on the Playstation 3 and the XBox 360. This is the same thing as before: GT switches up the video someway or somehow to make the PS3 version seem awfully inferior to the 360 version.

What’s the difference THIS time, though? They got caught. In the first version of the video (more on that in a minute), at around the 47 second mark (once Wolfie gets knocked off the chopper and the player has to maneuver him back onto the hood of it), you will see a slight goof in the video: A control button prompt pops up, but the PS3 side displays a 360 button. It’s the “A” button (where it should’ve displayed the geometric buttons instead). Here is the video to prove it (note that the video is HUGE as it was the HD video that was grabbed through YouTube in its original quality, thus it may take a bit to load. This was necessary as the lower quality videos pixelated the issue I’m bringing up here. By the way, no age verification needed here. Also, this is in MP4 format, so Quicktime or some other MP4 browser plugin is required).

Now, why is this the FIRST version. Because GameTrailers, after learning of the “goof”, went and stealth edited the video to correct this mistake. In the video you see on GT.com NOW, you first see a different way they display that particular scene side by side, and second, you will notice that it’s now the triangle button that pops up in the prompt.

That leads us to this picture:

This is the picture of the point of the video in question. This was dismissed by many fanboys as being photoshopped to provide a PS3 fanboy point of view.

However, this is just the firm proof of something we’ve already known: GameTrailers is a 360 fanboy haven, and it unfairly does the 360 advertising for them by making the PS3 version of multiplatform games look inferior. It’s not just disgusting that they can get away with this (they may not anymore, hopefully), but that some of the lunatic 360 fanboys are doing their damnest to cover this up or apologize for them.

I just don’t know which is worse.

Juuken gave me a suspicion that would make some conspiracy theorist proud: That Kotaku might’ve been playing a cruel April Fools joke on all of us about the big announcement that Sony is set to make on March 31st. Of course, speculation is running wild about this announcement as to what it could be (a price drop, new firmware, something). However, much criticism has been made about Kotaku with regards to how much anti-Sony slant has been in their stories (mostly due to the Home debacle that Kotaku has yet to apologize to Sony for, unless I missed something). This left many people wondering why the hell Sony would contact Kotaku first about this announcement.

First, breath a sigh or relief: the announcement will be real. Now, how do I know this? Because of what Juuken’s thoughts of this actually made me discover. Why would Sony contact Kotaku first?

They DIDN’T!

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I am usually called a PS3 fanboy, and there might be reasons why that is given to me: I have defended the PS3 on several occasions on GameGazette, and have called out people who have done nothing but take shits all over the system for no reason at all. This gets a lot of fanboys on the other side going because they believe no one is allowed to be fair to the system.

But seriously, after reading articles like James Hyde’s on Digital Battle listing the top 10 reasons the PS3 is failing, how can you NOT act like one just to tell him he’s wrong (which he is)

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You know, it’s funny about the upcoming Killzone 2. Everyone now has an opinion about not only the game, but the people defending it from the influx of anti-Sony sites like Kotaku and GameDaily that would love to screw around with the Metascore. But that Edge 7/10 needed to be explained a lot more than it was. I’ve always said that if you are going to be in the minority as far as opinions about a certain thing goes, you better damn well have a good explanation as to why you’re in that minority. This is why Ben Durka said something on PSXExtreme about that Edge review. It was highly inconsistent (just as inconsistent as Famitsu is), the things they said did not justify the score, and it just reeked of either anti-Sony bias or plain stupidity. No one’s saying that no one is allowed to have a negative reaction to KZ2 or anything like that, but Edge seemed to just want some attention in the influx of everyone that would disagree with them.

But Variety had no right to go about posting what they did. Sony fanboys are like Rush Limbaugh? Yeah, right, bud, and people like you are just like Ann Coulter-geist: Generalizing every single person from one side of the equation and saying that they are the scum of the Earth while the other side comes out smelling like a goddamn rose.

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I’m sure everyone has seen it by now. The quote from Valve mocking (or was it quasi-confirming?) the Left 4 Dead PS3 rumors and listings on several shopping websites, via a CVG article. The “Valve rep” told them,  “Fantastic. I can’t wait to see it.”

Why did I put “Valve rep” in quotes, you ask? Because during the past few days, I’ve been getting a few e-mails from the CVG article’s author, Michael Jackson (no joke. That’s his name), concerning some things I wrote in our news article concerning the quote. Specifically, the parts about how I came to the conclusion that CVG was taking people out of context a lot (which I answered with just one name: Chad Kroger. He’s since shut up about that one), and how I thought a “Valve rep” wasn’t a higher up at Valve. I replied to him that a rep is a mouthpiece (usual understanding in the business world). What I got today as a reply from him was something that may be telling about CVG’s reporting of the story, and more importantly, telling that there is a much bigger story between the lines on this one. Let’s just say this: From the e-mail I got, you could argue that CVG was trying to cover Gabe Newell’s ass.

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Darkpower here, I’ll talk to you directly this time (unless some Baltimore Ravens fans kill me for that headline first), because I’m wanting to have full credit for this one…well, for the first 40 or so minutes that I was able to listen to a podcast that this website called AnalogHype posted this Sunday (I do believe). 40 minutes because by that point, I cared so little for it anymore that I had to turn it off. Fortunately, someone had enough nerve to listen to all of it.I also warn you that this will be a bit long, since there’s a LOT to get to on this one (UPDATE: I ended up listening to some more of it just so I could confirm some of these quotes for this article. You’re welcome, by the way).

I do get called a number of different things because of my personal console preference right now (the PS3, though that hasn’t stopped me from being fair nor critical of Sony or any of the idiots who are true fanboys to any system). You can have a preference without being a fanboy. Thus, I know when the line is and when I’m nearly crossing it (though I might here since this seems to be too damn good to be true). However, it seems like people who were on the AnalogHype decided to cross that line and then cross several others after that. There was one thing perfectly clear to anyone who actually listened to that garbage: AH is ran by a shitload of 360 fanboy clowns!

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This is one that we’ve been pondering for a bit before we decided to do an article about this story. Apparently, right after making a claim that this will be the year of the 360, as well (which he had the right to opine), Gaming Target editor and contributor John Scalzo lists “Further Proof the PS3 is Done”. All well and good…IF he hadn’t gotten most of his claims either wrong or completely sourceless.

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The website of broken record, The Bitbag, has responded to an interview that Kikzo conducted with Square Enix’s Corporate Director Shinji Hashimoto and Final Fantasy series Producer Yoshinori Kitase in which some questions came up that, to Bitbag Editor In Chief Torrence Davis, proved some points that he was trying to make to several people. He decided to talk about them in an article of his own, and right now he’s getting some heat for them. However, is he correct in what he is saying, or is this another reason why Bitbag continues to be accused of  bashing of PS3 fanboys while completely ignoring the 360 fanboys’ own extremist viewpoints?

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