[Lady Lamont]

The consoles themselves are still not working correctly even with the repairs over here, I am not biased all I have been stating has been the repetitive issue within most Microsoft products of not working properly (even after the correct repairs have been done officially or if the product has been replaced). I program and build up computers from scratch and have also taken apart various consoles to repair them and even after repairing a few Bricks and Microsoft products properly they still didn't work, sent them off and they were returned to those who commissioned me to fix them and guess what...? They still didn't work. All I can say is, there was a lot of enraged people over the issues and Microsoft responded with the basic "It's not our fault the product doesn't work." line - which is why I personally wouldn't want any of my friends' who actually bought a Brick to waste their money on XIII as it probably wouldn't even work properly, just this week one of my school mates upgraded from her old Brick to the 360 and decided to put in a brand new game and the entire thing crashed as soon as she turned it on and when she called customer service - she also got the basic response on the line and she was absolutely devastated and she had said that she would never touch a PlayStation over a Brick but after that and being a loyal person to the company, receiving that reply and having a faulty product that she could not return (she tried and they told her that the warranty was void for some reason which they said - without telling her why and that she could not return it for a refund), instead she is now absolutely enraged about the E3 Live announcement that I showed her about Square-Enix's choice after the issues with the new Brick.

Overall, I'm not being biased... I'm being logical with all of the due complaints and issues I've seen with the console to the side that we've been ripped off on ALL of our consoles over here (we've been getting shipments LAST in the world on video games and electronics, but we're now starting to get priority shipping due to high demand and sales) so with that said, a lot of PlayStation 3s' here won't even play BluRay discs properly or they have more backwards compatibility issues than what happened in Japan, America and Europe.

Before we got some (a very small shipment, a couple hundred originally) received in Australia that could actually read them properly but most will not read the BluRay discs properly - again from what I've seen and heard so overall there are issues with a release of the game for either console as the majority have and preferred their Sony product - the PlayStation series, some tried the Microsoft product and found the many technical issues overwhelming and decided to boycott the console and the company's products and decided to stick with Sony only to discover the issues in the products in which we received - that were missing internal parts which were taken out "because AMERICA NEEDS PARTS. Because Australia is OBVIOUSLY the ass of the gaming world. *Rolls eyes*" when from what sales and surveys have shown that our gaming demand, even though we have less in our country is creeping up to overtake America's demand which has apparently been in decline and has gone down further with the economy issues.

Overall meaning: with the mass of issues still arising in newly received consoles that we have been told that the issues have been resolved - meaning they should not be happening BUT they still ARE happening. However the majority of our consoles WILL NOT even be able to play the game UNLESS we actually get all of the parts which were removed instead of waiting for the "80 Gigabyte" release that "features" BluRay reading capabilities.... basically Australia's majority of installed consoles are screwed either way so there is a fair amount of reason to why RedCloud and myself are rather frustrated about this due to the reasons I have mentioned above and almost all gamers have migrated to Sony and Nintendo - many of which have stated because of the products (hell, I got my DS and PSP just for some of the Square-Enix games announced and was just about to go and buy a PS3 just for XIII and Versus XIII the day before the announcement to risk not having one be able to even play the game - once released - before I have to manually fix the damn thing!)

Too - Long, Didn't read; Basically either product is seemingly faulty here in Australia and is also greatly known to be faulty/glitchy in other countries even though the world has been told that the problems have been solved and that they would not happen anymore however it is still arising and the complaints and servicing in some countries still does not resolve the issue and this was also seen in some of the earlier versions/product releases which caused some gamers and/or buyers to boycott (mainly) the Brick and Microsoft products and moved onto Sony and Nintendo products instead - that is as a majority. Due to consoles received here missing internal parts that allow for things to be read or for them to work properly it seems Australia and other countries are going to be at a loss for the game(s).

Personally, my experience with Microsoft products has not be good at all and can coincide with what I have seen and heard from many other people (in Australia and around the world) in comparison to all Sony products I have had which have never had any issues whatsoever (even when many gamers in America via magazines or blogs complained about the products and did the reverse to what many others did - went to Microsoft products instead). So that's just a basic answer to why, attempting to not be biased but I was just giving my opinion and those of others.