Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company’s new video game system just isn’t that great.

Last year, Sony blithely insisted that the PS3 would leapfrog all competition to deliver an unsurpassed level of fun.

Put bluntly, Sony has failed to deliver on that promise.

Over the weekend a clear sense of disappointment with the PlayStation 3 emerged from many gamers.

It often feels as if the PlayStation 3 can’t walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.

Sony seems to have lost its way; their technologists seem to have won out over the people who study fun.