CNET: 360 holiday season is 'mediocre'

Overall Xbox 360 outlook for the holiday season: mediocre.
Overall Nintendo Wii outlook for the holiday season: strong.
Overall Sony Playstation 3 outlook: moderate to strong.

Mediocre is clearly so much worse than moderate.

"Merry Christmas little Timmy, we got you a new Xbox 360 and a copy of Mass Effect. What the hell? There are three red lights on the system and nothing's on the screen, Christmas is ruined!!!!"
It's a very real scenario that no doubt has people afraid for their lives. Microsoft has even set up online and phone based grief counseling at 1-800-4MY-XBOX, just ask for Max, he's the experienced one.

With the Wii being 'bigger than Jesus', it seems logical that a $400 sense of security is much better than a $350 or $450 headache. Halo 3 was awesome, but in the fast world of gaming it's old news compared to the "greatest holiday lineup in history."

Sony won E3

Killzone 2 (stole the show)
Uncharted\
Infamous
Heavenly Sword
Haze
UT3 (mouse/keyboard,mods!)
LittleBigPlanet
GT5
Folklore
Ratchet
Echochrome (an interactive optical illusion, fuck yeah!)
SOCOM
Warhawk
Home
Free online
MGS4!

MS just continues to show they don't know their market. They're trying to increase marketshare that's already gone to the Wii for casual gaming, but they're alienating their current marketshare, which will head to the PS3. Aside from Halo 3 and Bioshock, who cares anymore? I'm sick of dealing with broken systems, cheaped, gimped hardware, paying for pictures, paying for P2P online, a locked down system, I just don't care anymore.

Sony shows they care more about gaming by what they've shown. As a gamer, that's the most interesting and most enticing. Being able to play games in the best way possible, without silly things like mouse/keyboard lockouts, restriction of mods, lack of a standard HDD, smaller disc space.

Kudos Sony, you deserved to win.