Dave Karraker, senior director of corporate communications at Sony, now claims one of the primary reasons the Playstation 3 has lacked in sales thus far is the mass negativity of the Internet gaming media.

Sony has recently faced a huge amount of criticism for the price and overall theme of the Playstation 3. From day one, many media members have called the system unjustifiably expensive and have said that Sony poured far too much attention into giving the console flashy graphics and extreme processing power.

Karraker defends the console, saying it is far superior in performance to any of its competitors. He believes that the media has tried to push the mainstream consumers away from Sony's product and toward competitors like Nintendo and Microsoft, and that they have been fairly successful in doing so. Karraker and others like him at Sony are trying their best to pull the console out of the massive hole it is in, but given the steep price tag, and the warning I issued months before its release, I'm not sure Sony can cover enough ground to have anywhere near Nintendo's success.

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After months of waiting, AMD has finally shown its cards.  hardware enthusiasts everywhere have been waiting for a peek at the R600, and reviews are now available on several different websites.  The DX10 card has been touted forever it seems.  Setbacks in the production process have made the debut date slip at least 4 months.  nVidia has had their own offerings available for quie awhile.  Fom the looks of it, nVidia still holds the performance crown, but AMD's offering should find a home in many HTPCs.

And lets not forget Phenom, AMD's upcoming multicore processor developed on the K10 architecture.  Could this be a Core2Duo beater?  We'll see.  AMD has yet to let their processors out into the wild for a review.  Here's an overview of today's news. 

AMD Claims Quad-core Desktop CPUs Ready for Christmas
AMD details its desktop plans for the next year, though be it a quarter later than originally planned
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AMD Demos Next-Generation Platform
AMD demonstrates 'Barcelona,' 'RD790' and 'R600' in California
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AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD Family, Finally
AMD announces its long-awaited ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, seven months after its initial launch date
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Final AMD "Stars" Models Unveiled
AMD prepares its Phenom FX, Phenom X4 and Phenom X2 lineups for launch
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