Of course they had to take a jab at Microsoft, they had to wake the crowd up somehow. Sony: cheap jabs at Xbox and then goes on to show nothing compelling.

Microsofts conference was way better this year and this is coming from a pc gamer. Sony's is a snorefest.

I am well aware that Japan has plenty of other colorful cultural icons that would have done just as good a job of representing the country in the World Cup this year. Characters like... um. Cloud? That little fluffy thing? A tentacle? Whatever, I'll ask Kotaku East master Brian Ashcraft about it later. What matters…