100 Reasons Fanboys Hate PlayStation

What’s the first company that comes to mind when we say “overpriced hardware” or “arrogant executives?” Sony has pulled more than its share of game industry boners, and our latest Week of Hate video calls out 100 of the most egregious.If you can’t stand to see your precious PlayStation savaged thusly, sit tight. Tomorrow we’ll tighten the thumbscrews on Nintendo. Let theTwo Minutes of Hatebegin!

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100 Reasons Fanboys Hate PlayStation

1. Clank missions
2. Phil Harrison
3. PS2 Online Adapter
4. PS2 Harddrive
5. Equals Xbox?
6. PS3 price point
7. Chewie @ E3
8. PSP mascots - squirrels
9. Kutargi
10. Afrika
11. UMD movies
12. ThreeSpeech
13. Let GTA get away
14. Daxter
15. Graffiti campaign
16. PSP Dead pixels
17. Giant Crab
18. Still relying on Lara Croft
19. PS3 creepy doll ad
20. Original SIXAXIS
21. 1ST party NBA games
22. Warhawk - no singleplayer
23. Backwards compat gone
24. Home delays
25. PS3 hardware variants
26. No gamer score
27. Pocket Station
28. Won't support homebrew on PSP
29. Net Yaroze
30. Raiden
31. MGS4 monkey wtf
32. PSP - only one stick
33. Transfer old movies to PSP
34. Kaz "Ridge Racer"
35. PS3 ebay sellers
36. All I want for xmas is PSP
37. Simpsons Wrestling
38. Killed Bleem
39. PS3 online sucks
40. Pro Duo memory
41. Blackballed Kotaku
42. PSP racist ad
43. Jaggies
44. Lair
45. Blu-ray
46. Spellling of Blu-ray
47. Spider-Man font on PS3
48. Spider-Man 3
49. Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray
50. Gamers don't want rumble, they want tilt
51. We want gamers to say, "I will work more hours to buy one."
52. Empty boxes unloaded at PS3 launch
53. LittleBigPlanet isn't out yet
54. Home = boring
55. Getaway: Black Monday
56. Gran Turismo
57. EyeToy
58. PSP Slim
59. PSP: not a DS
60. Eye of Judgment gimmicky
61. Wii is "impulse buy"
62. FFXI grind/losingXP
63. Blasto
64. 989 sports
65. Legend of Dragoon
66. Customer "support"
67. GHIII/Rock Band compatibility
68. Slow updates
69. Angel of Dorkness
70. Fake footage: Tekken 2
71. ...Killzone
72. ...Motorstorm
73. Launch-day shootings
74. SingStar sucks
75. REZ overrated
76. PS3 is HUGE
77. Get your own ads
78. Buzz Jr.
79. PSone overheat
80. DMC2
81. Unlock Diesel wardrobes
82. PSP ports of big games
83. Rascal
84. Ducks in tech demos
85. Incessant PSP updates
86. PSP web browser
87. XMB too confusing
88. Chad Warden - PStriple vid
89. PlayStation store hard to use
90. NFL GameDay
91. Shit launch games: Gundam Crossfire
92. ...Genji
93. ...FantaVision
94. Onimusha 2 Soul Controller
95. Killzone: Halo Killer
96. MGS4: Old Man Butt ewww
97. MGS4: groping the statue
98. MGS4: delays
99. Cheesy Korn/Haze tie-in
100. DVD to PSP sucks

Mar 25, 2008

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