Ahh, I love the smell of media spin in the morning

[brynndragon]

It smells like bullshit.

I'm talking about the PS2 = conflict diamonds article going around as of late. The blame for the conflict behind a component that can be found in almost any small electronic device (including hearing aids and GPSes, not to mention cell phones and PCs) is being laid at the feet of a single console system. A console system that many gamers own but almost no one goes out to buy anymore since it's last gen, making the point of the article not prevention of conflict continuation through boycott but pure guilt-trip. Unless the Wii is too cute for genocide or something. . . more likely, picking on any other console could induce console corporate ad removal, while Sony wouldn't mind if the PS2 disappeared from the console market so maybe someone somewhere would buy a PS3.

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[greyhame.livejournal.com]

Actually, as recently as about eighteen months ago (and, I think, probably more recently than that, but that was the first article I found) new PS2s were outselling the other three consoles.