I shudder worse at imagining how much the promoters would *focus* on that as part of their 'storyline'.

Indeed. Though from a certain point of view, the fact that the gaming community is thinking of gender at *all* is part of the problem in the first place. A gamer is a gamer is a gamer, and that's all there is to it.

I'm fully in support of Scarlett (My view? The only questions of any importance are 'Can you play the game well?' and 'Can you meet or exceed the standards of communication that gradeschool language classes *should* have taught you?'…the rest is irellevant—you could be a dog on the net for all I care), though I am…

Yup. I'm no PC Master Race type, but this generation—you might as well just go with a PC for gaming. As you say, there's no real hardware improvement—and the changes there are, basically just make the thing a set-top PC (compare to the Steambox, for example). Given they've managed to kill the primary benefits that…

Well, one out of 3 isn't bad….Yay KH3.

I'm more baffled that they think they have to use the DS3 to play movies and such instead of just using the PS3 remote.

Part of the idea that was used in the previous media-center schemes (including PC along with the consoles) was that yes you do have other devices (Quite likely Sony branded!) to do this, but this consolidates them all into *one* device, vastly simplifying your wiring and power needs.

There's also the thing that Sony already *has* the living room—just not in an all-in-one device. MS doesn't have their own lines of standalone DVD/Blu-Ray players, monitors, TVs, and other components, after all.