I just deleted a 700 word blog post after getting back from GameStop. Originally, I planned to rant about my certainty that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue would sell like hotcakes, while Okami for the Wii sold like cow patties. This, I thought, would be ironic, since Okami is a huge, awesome game, and Prologue seems to me like an incomplete cash grab. I had broken the piece up into several parts, wherein I compared the hype, competition and content of the respective titles.

The final section was going to be called "Sales Pitches," and in it I was going to describe the efforts of GameStop employees to convince me to buy each one. I guessed they would try very hard to sell me a copy of Prologue, and probably wouldn't even mention Okami. Well, things didn't quite go according to plan. The following is an account of today's trip to GameStop.

I walked in the door and asked the two sales clerks what was new.

"Hmmm, not much," one of them said, "couple price drops."

I thought maybe he had misunderstood me, so I asked "No big new games?"

He said "No."

Surprised, I asked "Well, what about Gran Turismo 5 Prologue?"

"Oh, well that comes out tomorrow."

"Is it going to be pretty good? Do you think it'll be worth buying a PS3?"

He looked at me like I'd just eaten a live mouse and said "Are you crazy? It's practically a demo."

I LOL'd.