We now definitely know that there is a MGS game in the works. First the Famitsu leaks confirm it, and now the picture of Big Boss on the countdown we all know and love. However, through all the hoopla over the “R” and the pic, no one really caught that there was one more clue added, or one that no one had caught before. At some points on the completely random rotation of the clue, a “P” appears (you can see it faintly in the pic if you look hard enough).

What does THIS mean? Well, since they are random, and we also have officially a Snake (since Big Boss was also named “Naked Snake” in MGS3, thereby killing anything about a snake symbol from the “3″), we now have an E, S, and 3. The E and 3 could mean the upcoming E3, but it could also go with the P that we saw. Which could mean one thing:

This might not be coming to the 360, since the P could mean that we should take the other clues as MGS, E3,…and PS3.

Of course, in 4 days, we could be in for more as the rain clears…or an official confrimation from the man himself.

And why NO one caught THIS yet is a very strange enigma indeed.

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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So Jim Sterling over at Destructoid made a very interesting article saying his opinion as to why PS3 Trophies “underachieve” in comparison to Microsoft’s 360 Achievements, citing what he thought was the “clunky” XMB of the PS3, the lack of a true identity on PSN, the “syncing” of trophies, the level system, and the gold, silver, and bronze trophy tiers illustrating how “worthless” some accomplishments are. This is all well and good, and he has every right to this opinion (which is why I’m doing a DP Thought as opposed to a Media Watch on this one. I don’t think this was a fanboyish article, even though I know Destructoid is known to have some 360-fanboyish flamebait articles in the past, and the article in question has a few fanboyish claims in it, as well).

However, I have to respectfully disagree with a lot of his points. In fact, I think that PS3’s trophies are ten times better than Achievements. Want to know why? Read on as I do this by stating my opposition to each of these points.

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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.