It's been a fairly predictable couple of weeks in the next-gen horserace. The happy news for Sony was that their UK PS3 went off without a single murder or riot, and shattered sales records... right before dropping like a stone. So what gives there? Well, everyone that wanted one went out and bought them at the same time, which then left a country full of the rest of folks who, like most in the USA, Japan, etc., could care less about owning one. Poor Sony. At least they're winning the format war, sorta.

So what's Sony's take on this? As usual, the numbers clearly have no significance. "Meaningless," they've called it. Um, well, actually, no. You have to sell consoles, not disinformation.

Meanwhile, Nintendo is installing special showerheads that will spray their board members with a constant stream of Yen! The DS has sold a greater number of units than bagels that have been sold in NYC since the dawn of time, and the Wii is still a pretty tough item to find anywhere.

What's up on the Micro$oft front? Well, they're seriously not happy about the Xbox 360 Elite story leak, which baffles me somewhat. I mean, every company (Apple, for one), wants to completely blow the doors off the world with every shocking new release, but in the VG industry where people are constantly buying new hardware, software, and accessories, it's a very good thing to know what's coming down the line. They seemed pretty grumpy about it though:

"For the Elite, for example, people were talking about the functionality and had pictures and all this stuff, but they didn't have the full story. They didn't know the price, they didn't know the accessories, they didn't know additional information that really puts a lot of context and a lot of information behind it..."

But so what? We've got all the facts now. They just seemed a little put off about getting their secret let out.