He claims on one hand to be neutral as he has a vested interest in the success of epic games on PS3 but in the other he openly bashes great PS3 franchises and hardware. It seems to me like he is just trolling with the intention of getting his name out there and more recognition for his upcoming games.

The sad thing is that it works, people take his comments personally and the trash articles shoot straight to the front page. I've always said trolls are like annoying children, if you ignore them they soon tire and go away. Clifford may be a grade-a w@^ker but he is clever enough to manipulate N4Gs drooling masses for free publicity.

he trolls, that's was he does and he feeds off this website because morons on this website suck it all in and make comments like what you are doing now.

Nom nom nom - Cliffy B

Frankly, I'm sick of the hate directed towards this Legendary Design Director. The only difference between his opinion and the opinions of those commented on this site is that people listen to him. So what if he's opinionated, isn't that what this world needs more of? I mean, noone cares if DICE claim other companies to be lazy and no competition for themselves. And surely all that matters is if he's talented at that of what his job entales, of which he so very much is...

Surely if his opinion matters so little to you, you should ignore articles relating to such instead of writing such a useless Blog Post. I mean, what was the purpose of said Blog Post? To get others to enroll into the "We hate Cliffy B" Club?

"Really is [], X, 0, and ^ to difficult for your simplistic mind?" - "If you get confused by your shapes perhaps you should go back to kinder garden Cliffy, I hear that's one of the prime focus of their teaching now. "

Lol really? He's the design director for a huge game development company, and you're really questioning his intelligence? He has opinions, just like any other gamer out there. He just happens to be more outspoken about it, and isn't letting his job status within the industry be a reason to not voice his opinions and humble himself.

I now understand his comment about "feeding on the tears of fanboys" , because you people make such a huge deal out of every little thing he says that isn't heaping praise on sony. The only thing he will be needing is a bigger wallet, not a shovel. At the end of the day, he's still going to be making millions even though you're pointlessly whining like a little girl for everything he says.

Hey, have some respect for Clifford Michael Bleszinski, he's been around since Unreal 1, and his level designs were/are terrific.As much as I love my PS3, the guy's a genius.Period.

I mean, It's true he has bias, all of us do.He's just entitled to it, he's part of the fucking industry.It's not like he does not know a thing or two, and he never bashed a system like Gabe did.He's just a PC guy.

At least he won't be running around like most sissies here screaming "Failstation" or "PC BEST VERSION CONFUURMED"

You know, one thing that I find the most interesting about this site is how backwards it's become. This site is supposed to be about gaming news, not about flame wars.
I've been on this site since 2008 and I used to spend an hour or so sifting through the gaming news daily, however today that task only takes me about 10-15 minutes due the dearth of any real gaming news at all.
I see the people complaining all of time about stories that are pure drivel and are written just to anger others, yet if the story happens to fit with their personal views, then it's okay. The recent story where this developer, once again, attacked the Dual Shock 3 controller and even in the article stated that his motives were to make others angry most of the main players on this site were present and getting involved in the name calling and fighting that they all claim to despise. And guess what, the developer got exactly what he wanted; look at where the news is: the hottest topic at this moment.
If people really want to make this site better they really need to practice what they preach: stay out of these articles that are absolute drivel that are written for no other reason than to make someone angry no matter which console it favours; they will eventually go away if you don't give them attention.
This brings me to another point: just because some person, who has shown undying favouritism in the past, says something bad about your favourite piece of hardware; does it make it true or make your controller work any worse? People already know his record as a hotheaded jackass and he's not going to change anyone's opinion. The fact that his story got the attention he wanted actually gave it some form of credence.
When I read the recent story in question I just shook my head and went about my business, oh well, the guy's a jackass and even though the console I use is the PlayStation I could care less.
I just wish that the site admins and mods would take the time to purge the utter drivel like this from this site.

Anyway, that's my opinion for what it's worth.

You people are too sensitive.

lol at sensitive guys like you that fell in his trap. Nice one, you deserve a prize

Like J.D would have said "he's a sensie".

@ The Dixie Flatline. I agree. The guy is a jack@$$ who craves attention. Ignore him.

Cliffy B is opinionated like a lot of people. Take that Jaffe idiot, but people here tend to love that guy. No matter what he says. That's because this is a PS3 fanboys dream house.

I like Cliffy, this is America and we have this little thing called "Freedom Of Speech" maybe some of you have heard of it?

He can speak his opinions openly and there isn't much you can do about it. Not everyone is going to like the same things as you, deal with it. It happens to everyone.

To Blog post about it just shows the level of "Butthurt" IMHO. Cliffy B and Epic make some of the best games around and if PS3 fans start pissing him off, all the better for the 360 people. Maybe next time BulletStorm will be Exclusive to the 360 or the next IP ect...

He clearly likes the attention and is the self proclaimed "Tony Stark of video games" I think people are too damn sensitive about the PS3, seriously I've never encountered a console generation so deluded or so easy to piss off if you don't like the thing or agree with it, now sure why and I don't really care.

As the Eagles said....GET OVER IT!

i like Cliffy B and the stuff he says, cuz he only says stuff to ruffle fanboys feathers and you guys play in to it. None of the stuff he says he means, he clearly shows that he likes PS3 seeing how he has one and he has played many of the games. he does it cuz he knows it gets under PS3 fanboys skins and you guys give him ammo for his arsenal and yall jus give it to him willingly... i get a laugh out of it cuz he seems like a cool guy that likes to have fun and you guys take him so freakin serious. Games are suppose to be fun and you guys are to busy whinin about it. Wahh wahhh he dissed the PS3 controller.. i mean really??? is ur life that boring where you have to stick up for a controller?

***"I have my number of issues with it and even, fundamentally, the PlayStation branding when they named the buttons square, triangle, it's like putting Kanji on the f--ing thing." ***

I have to admit that I honestly laugh at this one a lot. Let me get this straight, why didn't they use letters specific to certain languages only rather than shapes known by pretty much everyone in the world? Hm... I wonder?

I agree with everything you've written except for your update. Mr. Bleszinski has not provided anything innovative in the video game industry in my opinion. Gears of War took the shooter genre a step back if anything and considering how far he has branched out from that project it seems clear that he has a lack of creativity.

I won't prattle on about him since he really doesn't deserve the attention, but I will say this since he supposedly reads things here, when everyone is looking at you it isn't always a good thing.

This blog is win.
Cliff Bleszinski is a complete tool.

He's no David Jaffe.

and i thought i was the only one finding it annoying glad to see someone shares my view on Cliffy B

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau