It’s been released! The PlayStation 3 is here and you can buy one anywhere you want, anywhere. Anywhere.

Game? Check!

Woolworths? Check!

Playtime? Check!

Currys? Check!

Gamestation? Check!

Wow, try getting a Wii from any of them, pah, fat fucking chance.

Anyway, for a change I’ve decided not to rant about Sony this time, rather the pathetic shabby looking emporium of tat that is Gamestation in Burton.

Now as a rule I love Gamestation, the one in Stafford was excellent the people that ran it new about games, ran the store as a business rather than a social club and were really helpful and friendly. Fast forward to Burton and oh my, my.

Let’s start with the staff, every single one of them is under 25 and apathetic. Oh, and boy do they love their music and they love letting everyone know about it too. Although I don’t think a Velvet Revolver cover of the Sex Pistol’s tune Bodies is what paying customers need to hear. Although for those not in the know let’s recap some of the choicer lyrics:

She was a girl from Birmingham
She just had an abortion
She was a case of insanity
Her name was Pauline she lived in a tree

And boy does it get better, try these ones, bear in mind this was four o’clock on a Thursday afternoon:

Fuck this and fuck that fuck it all and
Fuck the fucking brat
She don’t wanna baby that looks like that
I don’t wanna baby that looks like that

Now I’m no prude and in fact I own the original and love the cover too, I’d just question the need for them to be playing something that most people would find offensive so loud that they couldn’t actually hear their customers.

Anyway this isn’t even the best bit. No, no, it gets better. As I mentioned earlier the PlayStation 3 was released on Friday, so I mooched down to the very same Gamestation I’m ranting about here to check it out.

Now they had a standard demo booth thingy, nice big Sony high def LCD and Virtua Fighter 5 blasting away. I ain’t a fan of the Virtua Fighter series, the second one was cool but since then I’ve become a Tekken fan, I digress. So as a non-fan I asked one of the youths behind the counter if I could take a look at MotorStorm.

The answer stunned me.

‘No. We don’t like MotorStorm, we prefer Virtua Fighter better.’

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, apparently it takes a little effort to get the disc swapped over or something and besides they didn’t like MotorStorm.

I did point out that I was the customer and I would really like to see MotorStorm, but they then just laughed. Look folks it costs £425 and you’re sitting on thirty surplus of the fuckers on launch day, I really think you should be a little more open to demoing the fucking thing to potential customers, who could very easily buy it somewhere else, rather than just bickering with them about which game you prefer.

Pricks.