Oh, don't be such a wimp - people are only having a laugh!

The second they give up, Microsoft (i.e. Bill Gates) becomes in charge of the games industry. Which isn't a bad thing in itself, but we need Japanese for it to be any good!

No disrespect, but if the PS3 and XBox 360 were the same price and the same spec, I would still get a PS3 - bear that in mind.

How I see it is that because Microsoft has been sympathetic to consumers and developers, they have succeeded. Sony has become slightly complacent, on the other hand. All that's going to happen is that the easier it is for a company to monopolise an industry, the more complacent they will become.

In the games industry, complacency is suicide.

I guess this is true but the took their sweet time to admit it. I feel its still up to Sony to stop messing up and get back on track.

I too would prefer a japanese industry leader, because then I know those japanese games I love are guaranteed to grace whatever console. An MS lead would be a lot darker in feel and content.

I suppose its now up to Nintendo to show everyone how things need to be done. I pray if Sony slip, Nintendo can replace them.

Microsoft might know a lot about their own personal "games industry", but they know s**t-all about the games industry that I like. It's becoming predictable, in a bad way - it used to be predictable in a good way back in the old days.

I feel like Microsoft is simply on a crusade to make people think they're "cool", which I'm not going to. Underdogs are what is cool, i think - so the harder they try, the more money they might make, but the sillier they look, to me. Microsoft appears to care too much about the end goal; taking it safely, as opposed to being ambitious, which is the wrong frame of mind, I think.