As for PS3 becoming your primary device in the living room, I don’t think anyone would argue with that. The Blu-ray demands a front row seat and you can bust out a 360 game in Mantown for when the ladies take over the living room to watch a chick flick. It’s win-win baby!

Wait a minute… you’ll be right there with them watching that chick flick.

(Come to think of it, based on my Netflix queue lately, so might I…)

I must thank the Bee though, as it has unwittingly pushed a change I should have made months ago. I have turned a corner and for the better I believe. I am now a PS3 gamer first and foremost. Don’t get me wrong.. I will still keep my XBOX hooked up in Mantown, but it’s no longer the prime player. I will enjoy its exclusives as I see fit, and I still have a backlog of games to play/finish (Eternal Sonata is turning out to be just that). But I will now choose the PS3 version for multi-console releases and it will occupy the High Def TV. It has earned that status with its reliability and very good experiences wiith Drake’s Fortune and Rachet & Clank Future. Couple that with the Blu-Ray triumph, and make no mistake about it, PS3 has turned the corner.

Crackdown was a surprise as #1, but then again, not really. It was the best kind of surprise. No real hype (except for those hankering for a Halo Beta) and then it comes out and blows you away with its freeform gameplay.

Best point of all – it was just plain fun to play – which is why we play these things in the first place. I also liked the fact that 2 people could be playing co-op in the same city but could either work together or do whatever the hell they wanted to. That’s real freedom.

Surprisingly, the latest Burnout game (Paradise) uses the same model. Big open city. Many different events (not just races also demolition type stuff) but the multiplayer is handled differently.

On Co-Op, there’s this huge list of Co-op events (example: You might have to race 2 cars at each other, both hit a jump from opposite ends and then crash in midair – things like that). Anyway, you can both be in the same arena, messing around with your single player achievements and then shoot over to handle a co-op event at any point. Up to 8 people can be in that arena – at your invite. I’d say this way of co-op is the wave of the future.

As for Mook’s RROD, the saddest thing is now everyone I know who owns a 360 has had it fail. Including 2 on me and 2 for Jason. That is just plain pathetic and MS should be friggin’ ashamed of themselves for rushing to market. What good did it do them? The Wii has already surpassed them in units sold and now PS3 is lapping at their heels (and that MGS4 Pack is really gonna’ whack ‘em). I’ve said it before – I’ll say it a million times. Make the hardware solid. It’s the games that will sell the system.

OK, so maybe that’s the first time I ever said that.