MS: PS3 Getting "Squeezed Out"

sonarus - 595 days 4 hours ago

He is obviously ecstatic over the 900 sales lead they enjoyed this month. Not to mention the fact that they reached 10million units in America first and history shows first to reach 10million wins the console war (even if they had a full yr head start). Valid reason to be ecstatic if you ask me

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yesah - 595 days 4 hours ago

well, he probably saw the numbers and was like:

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wAtdaFck - 595 days 4 hours ago

A high ranking official of a corporation downplaying its competition, yeah. Real mature.

Microsoft (this guy and Shane Kim) NEVER EVER EVER shut their mouth, do they?

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Lifendz - 595 days 3 hours ago

in the U.S. and the PS3 is getting squeezed out? What a dope. Hey Dopey, the PS3 is catching your system and is projected to overtake it by the end of the year (worldwide sales). The PS3 did quite well with GTAIV sales for a system with a smaller market share. All this and the big exclusive games aren't even here yet!

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Maddens Raiders - 595 days 3 hours ago

made lately are simply baffling.

I can't say it's not entertaining though; I mean what else are they supposed to do?

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Voiceofreason - 595 days 3 hours ago

Lifendz, I would love to know where you get all this information because it is completely wrong.PS3 will not pass the 360 this year at its current rate. Worldwide sales are not as PS3 dominant as you seem to think. Yes in Japan where no American electronics product will ever sale, the 360 is doing poorly. What you fail to mention or just dont know is that the PS3 is also doing poorly there. They are lucky to break 10k a week in sales.Both systems are within 100k of each other most months world wide. At that rate it could take years for the PS3 to overtake the 360. It may have been predicted years ago before the PS3 even launched and every analyst was picking it to be THE hit of this gen, but I doubt anyone said that recently. Well not anyone with any kind of common sense because monthly sale figures for both console s show it will take Sony a long time to over take it.It may never over take the 360 in the US.Japan is a freebie because it wouldnt matter what the 360 had in it or what games it had. The masses over there will not buy American electronics. Even if they do make them.

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Genesis5 - 595 days 3 hours ago

I really hope that guy enjoys eating crow sandwhichs and humble pie. He's going to be having a big feast of it by the end of the year.

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Mark - 595 days 1 hour ago

Didn't the NPD data show that the Xbox outsold the PS3? Maybe you're just pissed off that Sony keeps promising all these great games but are failing to deliver, delayed much, or you're just pissed off that you bought a games console but got a blu-ray player. The only reason they 'sell' any PS3's is because they have to give them away with their TV's.

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Mark - 595 days 1 hour ago

A victory is a victory. You must own a PS3. Go watch a movie while i play some games.

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instantstupor - 595 days ago

Some of the statements he made, like: "Let's hold ourselves accountable to what we're telling people what we're going to do. We owe it to our customers."

And things like: "I think Xbox has been a lot more straight with the customers about saying what we're going to do and living up to it than Sony has in this space."

Wait...yes, Microsoft is saying that Sony should hold themselves accountable for things and be "straight" with customers when Microsoft tried as hard as they could to pretend things like the RROD wasn't happening and wasn't widespread. Even after they fessed up and were under the gun to take action, I have heard a lot of horror stories about getting refurb after refurb and Ring after Ring (and of course, there is the flip side where people have a great experience). Yes, you owe it to your customers to, what, give them a slap in the face and a middle finger with every coffin?

I'm not saying that some of these things aren't true. It's a bit grounded in reality. I think that Sony had to show off some of their IP's and Services (Home) earlier than they would have liked to to show that they had things in the pipeline during their lackluster launch. That is the problem with showing things early, even with only a tentative date attached because people seem to take that as gospel.

I just have a problem when these companies start slinging these things at one another and they just end up being/sounding ridiculously hypocritical. I am not blind to the fact Sony does it as well, but in this instance, I have to say: You Mr. Greenberg, are in the wrong.

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power of Green - 595 days ago

You had me cracking up with that emotional out-burst. I dissagree with your comment the 360 is doing alright in *NA* which is what market he was talking about.

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CydonianKnight07 - 594 days 22 hours ago

I think you also could have mentioned in your post the fact that MS completely shafted XBOX owners when they decided not to support it anymore.

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Diugu - 594 days 18 hours ago

... then he might have a point. He might. Only the future will tell who "squeezed out" who.

If he means what he said, I suspect he will be surprised.

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cmd5150 - 594 days 6 hours ago

getting squeezed out. All of the consoles are selling well.

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CrazyMystical - 588 days 12 hours ago

dumb punk, see this is how i know MS wont win any console war, they have retards for staff.

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season007 - 595 days 3 hours ago

but i am amazed by how he said he is squeezing out the competitor by...selling 900 console/month in their last citadel....

and o well 900 is like what 3/days..if he is really happy with that i think most high rankers in Microsoft can definitely afford a few consoles a day just to make themselves happier

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Panthers - 595 days 3 hours ago

Not just 900, but US is the only place where they even have a lead, and its very small.

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BiggDaddy311 - 595 days 2 hours ago

I enjoy the games on the 360 but.. 50 gigs is always going to be bigger than 9. Seeing the length of most 360 games and the fact that most 360s warranty will expire in 2 years it is easy to see that MS will have to come out with a new console, which means they will leave the battle to early to win. If they don't then that means most of their hardware sales in 2 years will be replacements and attach rates will magically drop.

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Dark General - 595 days 1 hour ago

I find it funny that all 3 consoles have their own regions which butters their bread the most. Japan for Wii, America for 360 and Europe for Ps3. Pretty interesting to me.

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prunchess - 594 days 20 hours ago

The donuts have finally gone to this blokes head. It makes you cringe to hear this kind of thing from a exec. at MS. Here are the Worldwide hardware totals. Can anyone show me where the PS3 is being squeezed out?

Hardware Totals: [Last Week #]

DSL: 422,960 (-1%) [425,369]
Wii: 370,641 (-45%) [673,983]
PS3: 221,855 (-39%) [365,822]
PSP: 202,696 (-17%) [244,245]
360: 170,244 (-36%) [264,668]
PS2: 102,322 (-6%) [108,348]

He must have been thinking about the PS2 making those comments!

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Genesis5 - 594 days 19 hours ago

This guy is really irksome. He's the kind of guy that if you met him at a party, you be punching the crap out of him in about 5 minutes

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solsub - 594 days 18 hours ago

He works for Microsoft. What did you expect him to say?

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adalwolfe - 594 days 18 hours ago

I am surprised at how much the sony fans are in denial.. i mean look at the npd.. thats 20,000 more units this month, for a console that already has the lead, and has already been out for a year b4 the ps3 even came out. I mean its expected that the ps3 should be outselling the 360, because the 360 has not had as significant of a price drop as the ps3 has (the ps3 is pratically giving itself away - cheapest blueray player, and cheapest cell processor pc), and still the 360 outsells it.

Give it credit already, its going to be pretty hard for the ps3 to outsell it ever if its sales are neck and neck now..before the 360 price drops which we all know is coming soon (its only been out for 3 years now)... Worst of all for the ps3 is that the 360 has higher ranked games then it. Even if some how all the titles coming out this year for the ps3 are complete successes it will still be only equal to the number of great titles in the 360 line up. Assuming that all the 360 titles this year are complete failures... which going by their history this generation is simply not going to happen.

The 360 is doing quite well.. regardless of the excuses you make for your ps3.. or how often you bring up RROD..

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Armyless - 594 days 16 hours ago

"the 360 is doing quite well" and "the PS3 is getting squeezed out".

You're trying to sound reasonable defending hyper-inflammatory remarks... and it's not mixing very well.

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bfrodo30 - 594 days 13 hours ago

How lame, do you fanboy pricks have to be? 360 is the ps2 of last-gen. Wii will take the industry in a (hopefully optional) different, more immersive way to call your friend a douche while swinging a golf club. Sony sold gamers to anal rape with blu-ray and ps3, instead of acting like the industry leader. I'm just a gamer, I go where the games are. If the rest of you braintrusts are too in love with a company to go where the games are then I'm thinking your probably a loud mouthed, fast talking douche.

P.S.
F*ck Off
I also included a pic for all of you emo, goth, anime...flowers. I think it's appropriate. Life is hard enough, go weep on someone elses time...

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Dark General - 594 days 11 hours ago

I'll agree with you on the over charging of Blu-Ray. But the other stuff you're sprouting off about i don't agree with you. I don't think the 360 is the Ps2 of last gen. Sales wise or games wise. The 360 has had a few nice exclusives (BIOSHOCK, Mass Effect, Gears) but besides that everything else has been multiplatform. Orange Box, GTA4, Oblivion etc. Also you say people are too stupid to know where to go where the games are. I'd have to say you're small minded to think that people didn't know what they signed up to when purchasing a console. XBox owners are naturally going to go with the 360 since they had a good time with the console same for some Ps2 owners like myself. I brought a Ps3 because i knew i'd be able to finish off the God of War trilogy, along with MGS since those two are my favorite two series of video games.

Also that last bit about the anime watchers and whatnot sound funny coming from a person trying to act tough over the net with "frodo" in their username.

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Hellbringer - 594 days 9 hours ago

umm so anime = emo now?

goth = self pain?

You are one retarded doushebag.

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bozobucketeer - 594 days 4 hours ago

Yeah I know reading is hard sometimes, I have trouble too. To clear up what bfrodo said for you, he was saying fanboys = emo, goth, anime loving gay people, a mere mix of atrocities all bunched into one. Reading comprehension is fun! Anyways, anime doesn't equal emo, everyone knows that. Anime = horrible japanese animation for people who waited in line for days to see Star Wars: Episode 1.

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Hellbringer - 592 days 12 hours ago

Hey man, why the hell are you involving anime into this. Loser.

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pwnsause - 595 days 4 hours ago

correction 187,100, rofl yup there getting sqeezed out of the console war alright, from Europe to Japan, and even america, MS is mighty, yea.. right... lmao, Mr.Greenburg, please lay off that crystal meth

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Lifendz - 595 days 3 hours ago

they're getting murdered over there. They should stop all their focusing in Japan and take that money and apply it towards a system that won't get the RROD. Seriously, it's year 3 years into the 360s life span and there are still reports of 360s breaking.

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gaffyh - 594 days 9 hours ago

Lifendz I kinda agree with you, but if they stop supporting the 360 in Japan, Japan will never trust MS again. I mean most Xbox 1 owners got shafted when the console they bought was dropped after 3 years.

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Lifendz - 595 days 3 hours ago

ever? I think they've lost more money than they've made. And they're acting as if they're edging Sony out. Good thing they're getting all that XBL money to supplement things.

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Surfman - 595 days 4 hours ago

ok stop that. First the 360 is older, so more people have the console = more people buy softwares.

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solidjun5 - 595 days 4 hours ago

bloodmask is secretly Aaron. Don't tell anyone. ;)

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Action Bastard - 595 days 4 hours ago

Squeezed out by a 5 million console lead? Really?

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BIoodmask - 595 days 4 hours ago

"ok stop that. First the 360 is older, so more people have the console = more people buy softwares."

I'm not talking about that. Software attache rate is in reference to 'the amount of consoles in consumers hands' as compared to the 'amount of games sold.' It is a percentage. The numberof the install base has nothing to do with it.

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Rageanitus - 595 days 3 hours ago

BUT consoles are NOT hardcore..... if it was so hardcore why do ppl talk about the price of consoles so much. They want good entertainment at the right price.

Yes xbox has more gaming entertainment but it the gap is diminishing, but the end of this year many individuals are going to see this ps3 as greater value even though it is more expensive.

If you want to talk about hardcore go into the pc realm where its a BIG niche market where you get to configure parts.

The wii has done it quite so fine with the gaming market.... but Im afraid they are swaying to far away from traditional gaming methods.... I have an odd feeling the wii in the end will be regarded as a novelty item.... neat and all but in the end they are going to have to increase the horsepower on their console.

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JoelR - 595 days 3 hours ago

oh you mean attachement rates like this: (as per NPD)

"Spurred by the tremendous legacy of the Grand Theft Auto franchise on PlayStation, over 1 million copies of Grand Theft Auto IV for PS3 were sold in April in North America, with 23.6% of U.S. PS3 owners purchasing a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, a 29.0% higher attach rate for the title than Xbox 360. "

hmm... 29% higher attachment rate .. .yep that is getting squeezed out by Microsoft...

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thewhoopimen - 595 days 3 hours ago

And in a sense the PS3 is getting squuezed out. The hardcore market seems to prefer the 360 = look at the software attach rate per console sold. The hardcore audience buys a lot of games.

>The only reason the PS3 is even remotely being outsold here in the US is because most consumers here are just ill-educated and can only think of how much they are saving buying the 360 vs. the PS3. Everywhere else in the world... people know better.

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mart_is_Apig - 595 days 4 hours ago

they outsold PS3 by 900 units and get spanked by PS3 by atleast 100k in Japan+eu combined per week

and ps3 is getting squeezed out!!!

On a point of notice
could you please report the story ?
It is posted by Bloodmask aka Mart from Xboxkings
U can find Bloodmask's posts at xboxkings

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Snukadaman - 595 days 4 hours ago

how dumb...you got too think...what the hell does ms got too lose...2nd place....big deal. It is a great tactic to heat up this console war...I think all companys should take heed.

@guy on top...you mean...you despise mart so much you got to use him in a nickname...how dumb...its like your idolizing him...man he really gets under you droids skin so much...funny considering the poor bastard is ignored by more then 100 people. ohhh its nasim....no wonder why....sup pukio. 2nd@...i take it back..looks like ALOT OF morons are taking it personal..roflmao. bahh nasim....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh h ms is being mean to us.... how the hell am i virtually finished...do you think im secretly bill gates...dumb ass droid. and what your winning because you come here and spread your horse sheit...roflmao

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mart_is_Apig - 595 days 4 hours ago

even ur nick seems so dirty just like your console.

x360 gets outsold everyweek by atleast 100k if you adding eu+japan numbers.
The diff is not even 4m at the moment

How could MS talk crap when PS3 outsells x360 2:1 in WW sales. PS3 overtook x360 in europe

didnt you know that?

why lie when everyone can see that you are virtually finished

50 million $ worth DLC down the drain for MS

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twoface - 595 days 4 hours ago

heat up the competition with 360? i think it works marvelously

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ShinGino - 595 days 1 hour ago

Micro$oft has started to panic, and is now playing kiddy games in the console war.

Sony's PS3 is obviously started to outsell the Xbox 360 world-wide for 6 months now, so M$ is going around saying "how bad PS3 is doing" without any details.

LOSER MOVE MICRO$OFT!

You're like a bad Presidential candidate, when he/she is about to lose, and starts to resort on cheap attacks on the winning party!

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Pain - 594 days 14 hours ago

No Really They ARE!!

Atleast We dont Hear a SONY Flacky EVERYDAY SPEW FUD.. WOW M$ getting Scarred are We?

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Ace Ventura - 594 days 13 hours ago

Microsft does sound EXTREMELY pathetic... they are going to lose.

People can see hardware/software sales.

Just last fiscal quarter ending March 31...PS3 sold over 30 million more in revenue for EA than the FLOPbox.

Ofcourse this is worldwide. Xbox 360 is getting owned. And it's going to get worse.

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TheSadTruth - 594 days 9 hours ago

I am 13 years old. I own a PS3. When someone says something negative about my console I begin to cry and vent my anger on video game forums. How dare he not like my console? How can he not see the beauty that I see? How dare he try to make money for his company by saying something that isn't nice about a competitor. I'm going to go kill some Xbots! That's how angry I am grrrrr!!!!!!!

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BrianC6234 - 594 days 9 hours ago

This clown is as big a loser as Shame Kim. Why would anyone want to work for Microsoft anyway? That's where you go to work out of college. You get a year in and put it on your resume so you can get a real job.

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mart_is_Apig - 595 days 4 hours ago

Bloodmask and DCRIDER are the biggest XBots are XBOXKINGS

Bloodmask aka Mart is the same guy that Kotaku featured with 320 x360 games.

cant believe that he is a contributor here

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Hatchetforce - 595 days 3 hours ago

Squeezed out? The 360 is getting it's ass kicked worldwide by the PS3. The 360 won the US...by a scant 900 units but are thousands behind worldwide. Suck it you pig headed dumbass. Keep looking through that cardboard tube from the toilet paper roll.

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LinuxGuru - 595 days 3 hours ago

LOL @ talking potato.

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Area_51 - 595 days 2 hours ago

how can they be in the office giving out high fives, when they have a 33% console failure rate. Then we find out that they are trying to pass used units to europe. Shame on you M$ Shame on you. Like I said today This ship is taking on water so instead of handing out high fives and $hit, I think they should grab some buckets and start bailing some water off that sinking ship you call the "M$ Minnow". I am so glad that sony wont scope to this level, I guess they got there eyes on the ball. And all of you xbots keep making excuses for these sorry sons of Bitc@#$

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mart_is_Apig - 595 days 3 hours ago

Seriously giant crab/bloodmask/power of green ?

how many accounts do you have?

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karlostomy - 594 days 2 hours ago

You are the saddest fvck i have ever seen.

MArt is a pig = nasim = schmee = doodle = tanod = alexm = johnny

How many more accounts do you have dude. Sad fvcker!

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whitesky - 594 days 10 hours ago

lmfao!
this dude just got appointed to SONY like the other day n now theres an account here like King Kaz rofl cheaa

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mart_is_Apig - 595 days 3 hours ago

PS3 outsells x360 by 100k WW every week

in US diff was 900 units

yeaa yea yea CELL

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Ace Ventura - 594 days 11 hours ago

LOL PWNED

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liquidsnake - 594 days 19 hours ago

I believe the 4th dimension is time, and not graphics. But I can be wrong.

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waltercross - 594 days 7 hours ago

Yeah the 4th dm is time.
and yeah the PS3 has 4D, it came
out 1 year after the 360.

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Hagaf22 - 595 days 2 hours ago

its like it fun with d-ick and jane, when they make d-ick go on the news show only for him to find out his company is going under, this guy is trying to act like ms is building the best company and sonys a lost kid, when the sales number recently show thats not the case, sony is hold its own weight very well.

by the way the work d-ick isnt allowed, even if its a name- lame.

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n00bPwner - 595 days 1 hour ago

lmao. are you serious? why do u think 90% of Sony's PR guys were canned? lol, u droids get dumber by the day. wow.

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waltercross - 594 days 7 hours ago

Sony did the right thing then maybe,
Shouldn't MS take notes? :)

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SUP3R - 595 days ago

One of the most failed comments ever.
You just listed every console that was defeated by Sony, but play it off as a victory.
lol
n00bpwner = EPIC FAIL

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tweaker - 594 days 21 hours ago

PS1 sucked? PS2 sucked? lol

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n00bPwner - 594 days 11 hours ago

Wow, you droids are f*cking stupid.

When did I say anything about the amazing games on PS2? I wasn't talking about the games.

I said their consoles have always sucked, and still do. Their hardware is sh1t. That's just a fact.

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