Surprise surprise, the PS3 is a big disappointment

Who could’ve guessed that Sony would release a technically impressive piece of hardware with shitty, incomplete, broken, crippled software? And no good games?

Grand Theft Auto 4 - possibly set in London - is just about the only game worth looking forward to, and that won’t be released for another year. The only positive at the moment is the PS3’s potential to win the HD format war, because there is no way to justify buying into either HD system while the future of neither is guaranteed.

I went into Currys Digital (who changed their name from Dixons when everyone figured out the name “Dixons” was synonymous with “could’ve got it cheaper online”) a couple of weeks ago. Not a single one of the big TVs was proper HD - they were all 720p, which the PS3 as launched will not support for HD movies! That’s right, the shiny new 1080i/p content gets scaled down to 480p on 720p sets. Early adopters will be furious when they realise they’ve been conned into buying low definition HD sets. Suckers, I say.