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This is pretty hilarious.  They make a new, more reliable system and still manage to fuck up the launch.  That's one hell of a fluke.

Cool enough, I suppose.  I'm assuming you can plug headphones in this bad boy as well?

Yeah, I think I'll stay with my current 360.  No real reason to trade in as it works like a charm and I bought the extended warranty for it.  Well, that and I have no interest whatsoever in that glossy nightmare.

Always love me some Pac-Man.  Gonna wait to see if they put it on disc in another Namco Museum collection though.

@ToadRunner - Too true, man.  I personally don't get the whole "console war," thing.  Many of us own all three consoles, myself included, and I really don't like when these companies make it a point to badmouth one another.  To put it lightly, I don't care for the trash talking, just show me games.

Well, this is a surprise.

While Sony talked about Move, they didn't let it destroy the show like Microsoft did with Kinect. They sprinkled in some 3D stuff because that's apparently mandatory nowadays for Sony. At least that won't ruin perfectly good games. Oddly enough, only Sorcery and Heroes were shown as dedicated to Move. Looks like Sony's being more conservative with it, for which I am grateful. However, none of that has me interested. Neither do the showing of the new Twisted Metal or the PSP push (That system needs it, though). Oh no, what perked me was far more interesting.

Valve stepping up and announcing a PS3 version of Portal 2, with Steam Cloud and Steam Achievement support! With Gabe Newell on stage and everything.

Anyone following Valve and the PS3 over the years should know that this is, without doubt or question, the biggest surprise ever. Ever since that botched EA port of The Orange Box, it seemed like Gabe took any and all chances to bash on the PS3. It's something Gabe himself owns up to, calling himself one of the system's biggest critics initially. What made him switch over?

"...Sony Computer Entertainment has proved that the PS3 is the most open platform of all the current generation consoles and has worked extremely hard to make the platform the most desirable for consumers and developers. As such, we are delighted to announce Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 and believe the Steamworks support included will make it the best console version of the game.”

That's a huge dig at Microsoft right there. The question, then, is what's next for Valve on the PS3? Left 4 Dead 2 with The Passing for free (The new campaign costs 560 MSP on the 360 despite being free on Steam). Perhaps a re-release of Team Fortress 2 with all the extras that PC version has but the 360 can't because of Microsoft?

Either way, it's a huge win for Sony and console-only gamers alike, and the coup-de-grace of the show. Hopefully this'll lead to more support from other developers who've been hesitant to jump on the PS3.

Well, at least there's ONE pleasant surprise for this year's E3.

Well, that's out of left field.  Considering how openly hostile Valve as a whole was in the past (I always thought they came off as a bunch of forum trolls when discussing the PS3), this move is interesting to say the least.  I imagine that was an odd moment.