(screenshot courtesy douglasadams.com)

Ha. Leave it to The Onion to gently slap the gaming industry about with its trademark humor. Well maybe this might actually help Microsoft out a wee bit more, as they’re now at the “$500 isn’t a bad deal, really!!” stage of whatever insanely backwardly incompatible PR strategy they thought up to promote their new console thinking everyone would buy in after not one, but TWO big press conferences. Ah well… live and learn, I guess. Well, I guess we’ll see what transpires as November rolls around and the games get closer. And a few more comments from all those execs from all three big companies that try to sort out other issues with their respective platforms…