Don’t skip to the bottom of this post, as I want you to understand the reasoning behind my madness.

As I mentioned with my last music article, Borderlands is rather difficult to find at the moment here in Calgary. By difficult, I of course mean impossible. Last week, most of the retailers I asked said they would have in copies by Monday or Tuesday. So here I am, Tuesday afternoon, on my day off at the university, at my local EB Games. When I ask for a XBox 360 copy of Borderlands, the retail clerk tells me that they don’t have any. Yes, it seems the game is still sold out. In my desperate hope that this was a limited case, I go to the EB in my local mall to find the same thing. In fact, the clerk says he doesn’t expect any copies in for several weeks.

Picture my gradual frustration. To further paint you a picture, I don’t drive yet. I’ve been busing myself around to various retailers, in the hopes of finding one solitary copy of a game that’s been out for a week, met with failure at every turn. By the time I got to that final EB, I was looking for something, anything, to consume my time. And that’s when it happened.

Over the last month or so, my obsession over the game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been growing steadily, to the point of near madness. I don’t own a PS3, so it was heartbreaking to see a game that looks like it was built specifically for me (an Indiana Jones-styled serialized adventure shooter from the makers of the Jak & Daxter series? Awesome!) held just outside my grasps. The fact that the game has pretty much been praised by just about every publication on this earth as the Best Game of 2009 didn’t help me any.

This led me to think about the Playstation 3 in some interesting ways. I finally came to the conclusion that this year, Sony’s first party exclusives FAR oustriped that of Microsoft. Picture it this way: Microsoft’s biggest exclusive this year was a seven hour stand-alone expansion to a game that came out two years ago, with a Horde Mode-style cooperative multiplayer mode tacked on the front (Guess what game I’m talking about). This year, Sony had Uncharted 2, Infamous, Killzone 2, and Ratchet and Clank Future 3, all of which got rave reviews.

By now you’ve all probably guessed where this is going, but basically, the moral of this long and winding story is this:

I Got A PS3. Yeah. More on this to come. I plan to do a review of Uncharted 2 as soon as I bust through it. And no, I regret nothing. I walked into an EB Games looking for a 360 copy of Borderlands, and walked out with a PS3. I’m a traitor. And I’m loving it.